Chernigov Governorate

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Chernigov Governorate
Chernihiv Governorate
Черниговская губерния (Russian)
Чернігівська губернія (Ukrainian)
Governorate of the Russian Empire (1802–1917) and Ukrainian successor states (1917–1925) [a]
1802–1925
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Coat of arms
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Chernigov Governorate in 1913
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Location in the Russian Empire
Capital Chernigov [b]
Area 
• (1897)
52,396 km2 (20,230 sq mi)
Population 
• (1897)
2,298,000
History 
• Established
1802
• Abolished
1925
Political subdivisions uezds:
  • 15 (1802-1918)
  • 18 (1918–19)
  • 11 (1919–23)
5 okruhas (1923–25)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Blank.png Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802)
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Hlukhiv Okruha Blank.png
Konotop Okruha Blank.png
Nizhyn Okruha Blank.png
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Today part of Bryansk Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast
Sumy Oblast

Chernihiv Governorate [c] was a administrative-territorial unit of Ukrainian successor states of the Russian Empire during and after the civil war, namely of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian SSR.

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Specifically, Chernigov Governorate [d] was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya ) of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Chernigov [b] .

Its borders encompassed the modern Chernihiv Oblast, but also included a large section of Sumy Oblast and smaller sections of the Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine, in addition to a large part of Bryansk Oblast of Russia.

Administrative division

When part of the Russian Empire, the governorate consisted of 15 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets):

Of these, 11 were in territory inhabited by Ukrainians: Borzna, Hlukhiv, Horodnia, Kozelets, Konotop, Krolovets, Nizhyn, Novhorod-Siverksyi, Oster, Sosnytsia, and Chernihiv. [2]

Chernigov Governorate covered a total area of 52,396 km², and had a population of 2,298,000, according to the 1897 Russian Empire census. In 1914, the population was 2,340,000. In 1918 it became part of Ukraine and transformed into Chernihiv Governorate.

As part of the Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian SSR, the governorate consisted of 18 counties (povits):

In 1919, the northern Mhlyn, Novozybkiv, Starodub, and Surazh counties, with their mixed Ukrainian–Belarusian–Russian population, were transferred from Ukraine to the newly established Gomel Governorate of the Russian republic. [2]

In 1925, the governorate’s territory was redistributed among Hlukhiv, Konotop, Nizhyn, and Chernihiv districts (okruhas). [2]

Principal cities

At the times of the Russian Census of 1897:

Language

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Imperial census of 1897.

At the time of the Imperial census of 1897. [3] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Notable people

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ as Chernihiv Governorate
  2. 1 2 Chernihiv in Ukrainian
  3. ↑
  4. ↑
    • Russian: Черниговская губерния, pre-1918: Черниговская губернія, romanized: Chernigovskaya guberniya

References

  1. ↑ Генеральная карта Черниговской губерніи Съ показаніемъ почтовыхъ и большихъ проъзжихъ дорогъ, станціи и разстоянія между оными верстъ – Ст. Петербургъ, 1829. (in Russian) (Page title read as: "General map of the Chernihiv province. St. Petersburg, 1829.")
  2. 1 2 3 "Chernihiv gubernia". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 2001 [1984]. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Language Statistics of 1897 Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  4. ↑ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

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