Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

Governorates-General (Russian: генерал-губернаторство, romanized: general-gubernatorstvo) were a type of administrative-territorial division in the Russian Empire from 1775 to 1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and oblasts. The term was occasionally used to refer to krais or military guberniyas. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

Governorate-General
Category	Subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Russian Empire
Created	1775–1917
Subdivisions	Guberniyas [nb 1]

Description

Governorates-General were governed by governors-general, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General

• Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg
• Governorate-General of Moscow
• Governorate-General of Azov
• Belorussian Governorate-General (1775–1856)
• Siberian Governorate-General (1802–1822)
  • East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1884), split
    • Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 – June 9, 1880) (Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok into city-port.
    • Amur Governorate-General (1887–1917)
    • Governorate-General of Irkutsk (1887–1917)
  • West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1882)
• Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794–1912)
• Governorate-General of Kiev (1832–1912), also known as the Southwestern Krai (Right-bank Ukraine)
• Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno
• Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802–1856)
• Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802–1873)
• Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851–1881)
• General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
• Baltic General Governorate
• Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874–1917)
• Russian Turkestan
• Governor-Generalship of the Steppes
• Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
• Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland

See also

• History of the administrative division of Russia
• Guberniya / List of governorates of the Russian Empire

Notes

1. Usually three guberniyas per Governorate-General