Poltava Governorate

Poltava Governorate Полтавская губерния
Governorate
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Country	Russian Empire
Established	1802
Abolished	1925
Capital	Poltava
Area
• Total	49,894 km2 (19,264 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	2,778,151
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
• Urban	9.87%
• Rural	90.13%

Poltava Governorate

It was administered by 15 uezds (povits):

• Gadyach – Гадячъ) (Hadiach
  )
• Zinkiv
  )
• Zolotonoshsky Uyezd (Zolotonosha – Золотоноша)
• Kobelyaksky Uyezd (Kobeliaky – Кобеляки)
• Konstantinogradsky Uyezd (Konstantinograd – Константиноградъ) (modern Krasnohrad)
• Kremenchug – Кременчугъ) (Kremenchuk
  )
• Lokhvitsky Uyezd (Lokhvytsia – Лохвица) (Lokhvytsia)
• Lubensky Uyezd (Lubny – Лубны)
• Mirgorod – Миргородъ) (Myrhorod
  )
• Pereyaslavsky Uyezd (Pereiaslav – Переяславъ)
• Piryatinsky Uyezd (Pyriatyn – Пирятинъ) (Pyriatyn)
• Poltavsky Uyezd (Poltava – Полтава)
• Priluksky Uyezd (Pryluky – Прилуки) (Pryluky)
• Romensky Uyezd (Romny – Ромны)
• Khorol
  – Хороль)

Most of these ended up in the modern Poltava Oblast of Ukraine, although some: Zolotonosha, Krasnohrad, Pereiaslav and Romny are now part of Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Sumy Oblasts respectively.

The Poltava Governorate covered a total area of 49,365 km², and had a population of 2,778,151 according to the

• Kremenchug
  – 63,007 (Jewish – 29,577, Ukrainian – 18,980, Russian – 12,130)
• Poltava – 53,703 (Ukrainian – 30,086, Russian – 11,035, Jewish – 10,690)
• Romny – 22,510 (Ukrainian – 13,856, Jewish – 6,341, Russian – 1,933)
• Priluki
  – 18,532 (Ukrainian – 11,850, Jewish – 5,719, Russian – 821)
• Pereyaslav
  – 14,614 (Ukrainian – 8,348, Jewish – 5,737, Russian – 468)
• Kobeliaki
  – 10,487 (Ukrainian – 7,708, Jewish – 2,115, Russian – 564)
• Zenkov
  – 10,443 (Ukrainian – 8,957, Jewish – 1,261, Russian – 187)
• Lubny – 10,097 (Ukrainian – 5,975, Jewish – 3,001, Russian – 960)
• Mirgorod
  – 10,037 (Ukrainian – 8,290, Jewish – 1,248, Russian – 427)

Language

By the Imperial census of 1897,^[1] in bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Religion

By the Imperial census of 1897,

References

External links

• Poltava Guberniya – Article in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)
• Poltava Governorate – Historical coat of arms (in Ukrainian and English)
• Chernihiv gubernia – Article in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

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