Azov Governorate
| Azov Governorate Азовская губерния | |||||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
| 1775–1783 | |||||||||||
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• Established | 1775 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1783 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine Russia | ||||||||||
Azov Governorate (
guberniya) of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1775 to 1783. Its capital was in Belyov Fortress and later in Yekaterinoslav
.
Geography and history
Azov Governorate was located in the northeastern Azov littoral region and covered only the southern half of the previously existing Azov Governorate of 1708–25. The new division was created from the southern
East Ukraine
was part of the Azov Governorate.
To the west it bordered the
Strait of Kerch and access to the Black Sea
.
Included territories
In 1775:
- lands: Bakhmut Province (including Slavo-Serbia) and portions of the Don Host Oblast
- fortresses: Saint Demetrius (today part of Rostov-on-Don), Yeni-Kale, Tor (Sloviansk with adjacent lands), and Kinburn (including the Ochakov steppe, former Prohnoyivska palanka)
- cities: Taganrog and Kerch
- New Dnieper Line (fortification line)
1776:
- Yekaterine Province from Novorossiysk Governorate
- the autonomous administration in Slavo-Serbia was discontinued
Beginning around the 1780s, the Azov Governorate was divided into counties (
uyezds
.
In less than ten years the government of Azov once again was liquidated after it was merged along with the
Novorossiysk Governorate into the Vice-royalty of Yekaterinoslav
in 1783.
List of uyezds
- Novomoskovsky Uyezd(Yekaterinoslavsky)
- Alexandrovsky Uyezd
- Pavlogradsky Uyezd(Pavlovsky)
- Mariupolsky Uyezd
- Konstantinogradsky Uyezd
- Taganrogsky Uyezd
- Bakhmutsky Uyezd
- Slovyansky Uyezd
- Tsarychansky Uyezd
Administration
The Azov Government along with Novorossiysk, Astrakhan, and Saratov governments united under the Potyomkin's Novorossiysk General Government
- 1775-1779 Grigory Potemkin
The administration of the governorate was performed by a governor. The governors of the second Azov Governorate were[2]
- 1775–1781 Vasily Alexeyevich Chertkov;
- 1781-? Georgy Gavrilovich Gersevanov.
Nationality
- By the Imperial census of 1778.[3]
| Nationality | Number | (%) | males | females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainians | 136,906 | 61.31 | 75,338 | 61,568 |
| Russians | 45,812 | 20.51 | 24,236 | 21,576 |
| Greeks | 16,370 | 7.33 | 9,016 | 7,354 |
| Armenians | 13,702 | 6.14 | 6,952 | 6,750 |
| Romanians (including Moldavians) | 5,623 | 2.52 | 2,957 | 2,666 |
Serbians
|
1,040 | 0.47 | 592 | 448 |
| Georgians | 807 | 0.36 | 660 | 147 |
| Poles | 765 | 0.34 | 517 | 248 |
| Other | 745 | 0.33 | 472 | 273 |
| Total | 223,314 | 100 | 121,319 | 101,995 |
| Previously (prior to Azov Governorate creation) | 154,657 | 69.26 | 83,032 | 71,625 |
References
- ISSN 0869-5377(Sergey Tarkhov. Changes of the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Russia in the 13th–20th centuries).
- ^ Днепропетровская область (in Russian). narod.ru. Archived from the original on December 19, 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
External links
- Tarkhov, S. Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет [Changes to administrative-territorial division of Russia for the last 300 years] (in Russian). Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- Geography Weekly (2001). "Maps" (PDF) (in Russian). Retrieved August 26, 2013.
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