Krais of the Russian Empire

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The Russian Empire at various times included the subdivisions known as krais . Some of these krais were:

Russian Empire former country, 1721–1917

The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia or simply Russia, was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

A krai or kray was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and in the Russian SFSR, and it is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.

Caucasus Krai was an administrative division of the Russian Empire. It was established in 1844. From that time until 1882 the head of the region (krai) was Viceroy-namestnik, during 1882–1905 glavnoupravlyayushchiy or glavnonachalstvuyushchy, and in 1905–1917 again namestnik.

Northwestern Krai geographical object

Northwestern Krai was an unofficial subdivision (krai) of the Russian Empire in the territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The center was in Vilna city. Northwestern Krai together with the Southwestern Krai formed the Western Krai.

Southwestern Krai

Southwestern Krai, also known as Kiev General Governorate or Kiev, Podolia, and Volhynia General Governorate was a subdivision of the Russian Empire that included some of the territory of modern-day Ukraine mostly on the right bank of the Dnieper River. The territory corresponded to the Kiev Military District.

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