Governorate (Russia)
1708–1929 subdivision of Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A governorate (Russian: губе́рния, romanized: guberniya, pre-1918 spelling: губе́рнія, IPA: [ɡʊˈbʲɛrnʲɪjə]) was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, governorates remained as subdivisions in the Byelorussian, Russian and Ukrainian Soviet republics, and in the Soviet Union from its formation in 1922 until 1929. The term is also translated as government or province. A governorate was headed by a governor (губернатор, gubernator), a word borrowed from Latin gubernator, in turn from Greek kyvernítis (Greek: κυβερνήτης).
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Governorates of the Russian Empire | |
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Category | Subdivision of a unitary state |
Location | Russian Empire |
Created by | "On the establishment of the gubernias and cities assigned to them" |
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Number | 117 (8 initially) (as of 1914) |
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Selected governorates were united under an assigned governor-general such as the Grand Duchy of Finland, Congress Poland, Russian Turkestan and others. There were also military governors such as Kronstadt, Vladivostok and others. Aside from governorates, other types of divisions were oblasts (region) and okrugs (district).