Novorossiya Governorate
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Novorossiya Governorate Новороссийская губерния | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1764–1783 1796–1802 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kremenchug (1765–1776) Yekaterinoslav (Novorossiysk) (1776–1783) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demonym | New Russian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Established | 22 March 1764 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
• First disestablishment | 1783 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Reestablished | December 1796 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1802 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political subdivisions | provinces, uyezds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Ukraine |
Novorossiya Governorate
Most of its territories belonged to the
In 1796, the governorate was reestablished, but with the centre not in
History
It was created on 2 April [
As of 22 June [
The first capital of the governorate was the city of
Pikers unrest
In 1769–70 during the
Destruction of Zaporizhian Sich
In June 1775 the
Subdivisions
The governorate was subdivided into 12 provinces (circuluses) and further into uyezdes (counties). The city of Yekaterinoslav (today – Novomoskovsk) was located in Azov Governorate. The city of Yekaterinoslav (today – Dnipro) was located in Novorossiya Governorate.
List of provinces (circuluses):
- Territories before partitioning of the Sich
- Olviopolsk – Olviopol (today Pervomaisk)
- Elizabethgrad – Elizabethgrad (today Kropyvnytskyi)
- Krukov – Krukov (today the city district of Kremenchuk)
- Kremenchuk – Kremenchuk (the administrative center of the governorate)
- Poltava – Poltava
- Novo-Senzhar – Novo-Senzhar (today Novi Sanzhary)
- Added territories after partitioning
- Kherson – Kherson (newly built settlement with fortress and the main Black Sea Admiralty)
- Novopavlovsk – Novopavlovsk (today Voznesensk)
- Ingulsk – Ingulsk (today village of Inhulo-Kamianka in Kropyvnytskyi Raion)
- Slavensk – Slavensk (today Nikopol)
- Kisikermen – Kisikermen (today Beryslav)
- Saksagan – Saksagan (today village of Saksahan in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Second establishment
In December 1796,
A Decree of 12 December 1796 set up a serf system on the territory of South Ukraine and Caucasus by attaching peasants to the land.
Novorossiysk-Bessarabia General Governorate
The Novorossiysk and Bessarabian General Governorate was formed on May 23, 1822, with the center in Odessa. It consisted of the Kherson, Yekaterinoslav and Tauride provinces, as well as the Odessa, Taganrog, Feodosiya and Kerch-Yenikalsky city administrations. Nevertheless, Duke Richelieu, who was appointed to this position in 1805, was still considered the governor of the Novorossiysk Territory.
The Governate was abolished in 1874.
Subdivisions
- Bakhmut Province (1764–1775) transferred to the Azov Governorate
- The city of provincial significance Kremenchuk
- Yekaterinoslav Province
- Elizabethgrad Province
Governors
General Governors
- 1764–65 Aleksei Melgunov
- 1765–66 Yakov Brandt
- 1766–74 Fyodor Voeikov
- 1774–91 Grigory Potemkin
- 1791–96 Platon Zubov
- 1796–97 Nikolai Berdiayev
- 1805–14 Duc de Richelieu
- 1815–22 Alexandre de Langeron
- 1822–23 Ivan Inzov
- 1822–54 Mikhail Vorontsov
- 1830–32 Friedrich von der Pahlen
- 1854–55 Nicholas Annenkov
- 1855–64 Alexander Stroganov
- 1864–73 Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue
Viceroys (namestnik)
- 1779–83 Timofei Tutolmin
- 1783–88 Ivan Sinelnikov
- 1788–94 Vasiliy Kakhovsky
- 1794–96 Iosif Khorvat
- 1797–1800 Ivan Seletsky
- 1800–01 Ivan Nikolayev
- 1801–02 Mikhail Miklashevsky
See also
- Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty
- New Russia
References
External links
- Yekaterinoslav Guberniya – Historical coat of arms
- New Russia Governorate at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Katerinoslav Governorate – Article in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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