General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
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General Government of Galicia and Bukovina Галицийское генерал-губернаторство Galitsiyskoye General-Gubernatorstvo | |||||||||
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| 1914–1917 | |||||||||
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Catholicism. | |||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Galicians | ||||||||
| Government | Military government | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 5 September 1914 – 14 July 1915 | Georgiy Bobrinsky | ||||||||
• 4 October 1916 – 31 May 1917 | Fyodor Trepov | ||||||||
• 22 April 1917 – 2 August 1917 | Dmytro Doroshenko | ||||||||
| Historical era | Russian retreat from Galicia | 14 July 1915 | |||||||
• Abolition | 15 August 1917 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1910 | 8,025,675 (the whole Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) | ||||||||
| Currency | Russian ruble and Austro-Hungarian krone | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Poland  Ukraine  Romania | ||||||||
The General Government of Galicia and Bukovina (Russian: Галицийское генерал-губернаторство) was a temporary Imperial Russian military administration of eastern parts of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria captured from Austria-Hungary during World War I.
The administration was established after the Russian victory in the
Great Retreat
in 1915, it was not formally abolished until 1917.
Military governors and krai commissars
- 5 September 1914 – 14 July 1915: Georgiy Bobrinsky
- 4 October 1916 – 31 May 1917: Fyodor Trepov, administrator of the governments of Ternopol and Chernovtsy
- 22 April – 2 August 1917: Dmytro Doroshenko, Krai commissar of the Russian Provisional Government
Administrative division
There were four governments (guberniya) that were divided into counties (uyezdy, locally - powiats).
External links
- World War I. Talerhof
- Талергофский Альманах [Talerhof Almanac] (in Russian). ukrstor.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013: in 4 volumes - 1914-1915; 1925; 1930; 1932
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Bakhturin, A. Yu. (2000). Политика Российской Империи в Восточной Галиции в годы Первой Мировой войны [The Politics of the Russian Empire in Eastern Galicia during the First World War] (in Russian). Archived from the original (DJVU) on 4 December 2013 – via malorus.ru/mnib.
- Oskin, M. Battle of Galicia. August 1914
