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Yekaterinoslav Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav.
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Екатеринославская губерния | |
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Governorate | |
![]() Location in the Russian Empire | |
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] |
• Urban | 11.40% |
• Rural | 88.60% |
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.
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