Yekaterinoslav Governorate Екатеринославская губерния | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Established | 1802 |
Abolished | 1925 |
Capital | Yekaterinoslav |
Area | |
• Total | 63,391.61 km2 (24,475.64 sq mi) |
Population (1897) | |
• Total | 2,113,674 [1] [2] |
• Urban | 11.40% |
• Rural | 88.60% |
Yekaterinoslav Governorate [lower-alpha 1] was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya ) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav. It bordered Poltava Governorate to the north, Don Host Oblast to the east, Sea of Azov to the southeast, Taurida Governorate to the south, and Kherson Governorate to the east, and covered the area of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of modern Ukraine.
The government was created in 1802 out of the Yekaterinoslav vice-regency. The governorate bordered to the north with the Kharkov Governorate and Poltava Governorate, to the west and southwest with the Kherson Governorate, to the south with the Taurida Governorate and Sea of Azov, and to the east with Don Host Oblast.
The governorate was created in place of Novorossiysk Governorate in 1802 and encompassed a huge area of the southern Ukraine. Officially, the new governorate was created as Ekaterinoslav Governorate in 1802 and subdivided into the following uyezds with centres in:
County | County Town | Arms of County Town | Area | Population (1897 census) | |
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Transliteration name | Russian Cyrillic | ||||
Aleksandrovsky | Александровскій | Aleksandrovsk | 10,015.8 km2 (3,867.1 sq mi) | 271,678 | |
Bakhmutsky | Бахмутскій | Bakhmut | 9,224.8 km2 (3,561.7 sq mi) | 332,478 | |
Verkhnedneprovsky | Верхнеднѣпровскій | Verkhnedniprovsk | 6,862.3 km2 (2,649.5 sq mi) | 211,674 | |
Yekaterinoslavsky | Екатеринославскій | Yekaterinoslav | 7,858 km2 (3,034 sq mi) | 357,207 | |
Mariupolsky | Маріупольскій | Mariupol | 8,989.2 km2 (3,470.7 sq mi) | 254,056 | |
Novomoskovsky | Невомосковскій | Novomoskovsk | 6,532 km2 (2,522 sq mi) | 260,368 | |
Pavlogradsky | Павлоградскій | Pavlograd | 8,815.7 km2 (3,403.8 sq mi) | 251,460 | |
Slavyanoserbsky | Славяносербскій | Lugansk | 5,089 km2 (1,965 sq mi) | 174,753 |
List of okruhas of Ukraine upon the dissolution of the Governorate:
The governorate's population, a majority of peasants, was 662,000 in 1811, 902,400 in 1851, 1,204,800 in 1863, and 1,792,800 in 1885. From the second half of the 19th century, with the founding of Yuzovka (Donetsk), the governorate became the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass (Donets Basin).
Its population increased to 2,113,674 by 1897. The nationalities within the governorate were Ukrainians – 68.9%, Russians – 17.3%, Jews (4.7%), Germans (3.8%), Greeks (2.3%), and Tatars (0.8%). In 1924, the governorate had 3,424,100 (13.6% urban) inhabitants, living in 5,165 settlements, 36 of them being cities and urban-type settlements. The largest social class was that of workers (about 25%).
The data is taken from demoscope.ru. Here is also the most common language composition.
From the turn of the 19th century until 1887 city of Rostov-na-Donu and all the Taganrog uyezd were part of the governorate, but before the census of 1897 took place they were transferred to the Don oblast. Note that the biggest city of the guberniya was the city of Rostov-na-Donu while Taganrog was not much smaller and the third in size. Here is the data on them:
Native language | Yekaterinoslav Governorate Екатеринославская губерния [2] | For each uyezd (district) | ||||||||
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Yekaterinoslav Екатеринославский уезд [4] | Pavlograd Павлоградский уезд [5] | Bakhmut Бахмутский уезд [6] | Novomoskovsk Новомосковский уезд [7] | Mariupol Мариупольский уезд [8] | Alexandrovsk Александровский уезд [9] | Slavyanoserbsk Славяносербский уезд [10] | Verkhnedneprovsk Верхнеднепровский уезд [11] | |||
Number | % | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | |
Total | 2,113,674 | 100% | 357,207 | 251,460 | 332,478 | 260,368 | 254,056 | 271,678 | 174,753 | 211,674 |
Great Russian (Russian) | 364,974 | 17.27% | 75,190 | 36,164 | 103,702 | 9,628 | 35,691 | 15,445 | 79,281 | 9,873 |
Little Russian (Ukrainian) | 1,456,269 | 68.90% | 198,982 | 200,434 | 193,510 | 242,737 | 117,206 | 224,122 | 88,218 | 191,160 |
White Russian (Belarusian) | 14,052 | 0.66% | 4,033 | 505 | 2,468 | 196 | 1,697 | 3,353 | 1,564 | 236 |
Polish | 12,365 | 0.59% | 7,933 | 553 | 2,000 | 316 | 528 | 293 | 511 | 231 |
German | 80,979 | 3.83% | 20,609 | 5,806 | 12,646 | 3,452 | 19,104 | 14,014 | 896 | 4,452 |
French | 908 | 0.04% | 197 | 8 | 451 | 50 | 46 | 18 | 122 | 16 |
Italian | 146 | 0.01% | 21 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 39 | 14 | 25 | 9 |
Romanian and Moldovan | 9,175 | 0.43% | 1,771 | 29 | 6,371 | 0 | 95 | 2 | 839 | 68 |
English | 369 | 0.02% | 14 | 1 | 284 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 13 | 14 |
Greek | 48,740 | 2.31% | 193 | 38 | 142 | 9 | 48,290 | 45 | 14 | 9 |
Jewish | 99,152 | 4.69% | 46,441 | 7,363 | 9,457 | 3,635 | 10,291 | 13,886 | 2,631 | 5,448 |
Tatar | 17,253 | 0.82% | 868 | 255 | 346 | 7 | 15,472 | 128 | 151 | 26 |
Turkish | 5,555 | 0.26% | 168 | 15 | 20 | 9 | 5,317 | 14 | 4 | 8 |
Roma (Gypsy) | 1,293 | 0.06% | 103 | 172 | 255 | 272 | 21 | 203 | 177 | 90 |
Other | 1,888 | 0.09% | 519 | 71 | 655 | 28 | 164 | 77 | 251 | 23 |
Unidentified | 556 | 0.03% | 165 | 45 | 134 | 29 | 54 | 62 | 56 | 11 |
Religion | Number | percentage (%) | males | females | In the cities | Outside the cities |
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Eastern Orthodox | 1,903,264 | 90.05% | 982,616 | 920,648 | 167,263 | 1,736,001 |
Judaism | 101,088 | 4.78% | 51,679 | 49,409 | 64,024 | 37,064 |
Lutherans | 39,530 | 1.87% | 19,972 | 19,558 | 2,085 | 37,445 |
Roman Catholics | 32,154 | 1.52% | 17,658 | 14,496 | 5,388 | 26,766 |
Mennonites | 23,922 | 1.13% | 12,132 | 11,790 | 208 | 23,714 |
Old Believers and deviants from orthodoxy | 9,393 | 0.44% | 4,699 | 4,694 | 421 | 8,972 |
Muslims | 2,090 | 0.10% | 1,700 | 390 | 1,039 | 1,051 |
Baptists | 1,150 | 0.05% | 606 | 544 | 5 | 1,145 |
Armenian-Gregorian | 448 | 0.02% | 301 | 147 | 225 | 223 |
Karaites | 359 | 0.02% | 178 | 181 | 302 | 57 |
Reformed Christian | 157 | 0.01% | 95 | 62 | 15 | 142 |
Anglican | 46 | 0.00% | 26 | 20 | 16 | 30 |
Other | 73 | 0.00% | 53 | 20 | 14 | 43 |
Total | 2,113,674 | 100% | 1,091,715 | 1,021,959 | 241,005 | 1,872,669 |
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