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Not to be confused with Kiev Governorate or Kyiv Governorate General.
| Kyiv GovernorateКіевская губернія | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1708–1764 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Kyiv | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| • Established | December 18 (29) 1708 | ||||||||
| • Disestablished | 7 November 1764 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | provinces: 4 lots: 5 (until 1719) | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Ukraine Russia | ||||||||
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Kyiv Governorate (pre-reform Russian: Кіевская губернія), or the Government of Kyiv, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and then the Russian Empire. The government was established in December 1708 as one of the eight guberniyas first created during the reforms of Peter the Great.
Description
The Government of Kyiv in the 18th century has greatly differed from the Government of Kyiv in the 19th century. When one was exclusively located on the left banks of Dnieper, the other one happened to be located across the river. In territorial reform of Catherine the Great changed the name for government to the Russian vice royalty in 1781. The first Government of Kyiv was established on the most part of the Cossack Hetmanate including a vast territory to east of the Hetmanate as well, while the Zaporizhian Sich was in a condominium of the Russian Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1727 it was split into Government of Kyiv and Government of Belgorod, becoming a separate province under government of Hetman Apostol. In 1764 there was another division when the government of Little Russia and New Russia were established.
In 1781 the governments of Kyiv and Little Russia were reorganized into vice-royalties of Kyiv, Novhorod-Siversky, and Chernihiv soon after the partition of Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). In 1796 the vice-royalty of Kyiv was renamed back into the Government of Kyiv.
The borders of the Governorate underwent significant changes, in particular in 1796 when most of its territory was relocated from the left-bank Ukraine to the right-bank Ukraine. Kyiv was the administrative centre of the guberniya.
Foundation and early reforms
See also: History of the administrative division of Russia
Kyiv Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Kyiv Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities. The original territory was roughly based on the Siever land surrounded by Smolensk, Moscow, and Azov Governorates.
| # | City | # | City | # | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kyiv | 14. | Sumy | 27. | Sevesk |
| 2. | Pereslavl | 15. | Krasnopolye | 28. | Kursk |
| 3. | Chernigov | 16. | Mezhirichi | 29. | Mtsensk |
| 4. | Nezhin | 17. | Zolochev | 30. | Putivl |
| 5. | Novobogoroditskoy | 18. | Buromlya | 31. | Karachev |
| 6. | Sergiyevskoy | 19. | Rublevka | 32. | Kromy |
| 7. | Kamennoy Zaton | 20. | Gorodnoye | 33. | Rylsk |
| 8. | Belgorod | 21. | Sudzha | 34. | Bryansk |
| 9. | Akhtyrka | 22. | Lebedyan | 35. | Orel |
| 10. | Bogodukhov | 23. | Miropol | 36. | Novosil |
| 11. | Murakhva | 24. | selo of Vena | ||
| 12. | Sennoye | 25. | Belopolye | ||
| 13. | Bolkhov | 26. | Olshanka |
Additionally, seventeen cities (according to the source; only sixteen were actually listed) of Azov Governorate were assigned to Kyiv due to their greater geographical proximity to Kyiv than to Azov. Among such cities were Kharkov and Staroy Oskol. Also to Kyiv was assigned Trubchevsk and two other cities from Smolensk Governorate while some cities of Kyiv were assigned to Azov and Smolensk, respectively.
As the administrative unit, the governorate was preceded by the Regimental division of the Cossack Hetmanate. Remarkable is the fact that both divisions existed through most of the 18th century during which the Regimental division as administrative was phased away and later existed solely for military purposes. At the time of its foundation the governorate covered 231,000 square kilometers (89,000 sq mi) of territory of parts of modern Ukraine and southwestern Russia.
Initially divided into uyezds and razryads, the governorate abolished the obsolete administrative system of the rapidly growing empire. During the administrative reform of 1710, all governorates where subdivided into administrative-fiscal lots (doli), and Kyiv Governorate consisted of five lots. The lots were administer by landrats, from the German land-councilor.
A new reform edict was issued on May 29, 1719. Lots were abolished and the governorate was subdivided into four provinces centered on Belgorod, Kyiv, Oryol, and Sevsk, and named accordingly. By 1719, the Governorate comprised forty-one cities. The provinces, in their turn, were divided into districts. Despite the reform, the subdivision of the Governorate into regiments was still used in parallel with the provinces.
In the course of the 1727 administrative reform, Belgorod, Oryol and Sevsk Provinces were split off into Belgorod Governorate, with only Kyiv Province left in the Kyiv Governorate. The guberniya at this time was divided into uyezds that replaced districts.
See also
References
- ^ Указ об учреждении губерний и о росписании к ним городов (in Russian)
- ^ С. А. Тархов (2001). "Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет". Электронная версия журнала "География". Archived from the original on November 13, 2013.
- ^ Сергей Тархов, "Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII-XX в." (pdf), Логос, No. 1 2005 (46), сс. 65–101, ISSN 0869-5377
- ^ Иван Фундуклей. "Статистическое описание Киевской Губернии", Часть I. Санкт-Петербург, 1852. (Ivan Fundukley. Statistical Description of Kiev Governorate. St. Petersburg, 1852)
- "Киевская область". Archived from the original on January 6, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
- Гербы украинских земель в составе Российской империи
External links
- Shcherbina, V. Kyiv voivodes, governors, and general governors from 1654 to 1775 (Кіевскіе воеводы, губеранаторы и генералъ-губернаторы отъ 1654 по 1775 г.). "Lectures in the Nestor the Chronicler Historical Society (Чтенія въ историческомъ общест†Нестора лЂтописца)". Kyiv 1892.
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Categories:
- States and territories established in 1708
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- Kiev Governorate (1708–1764)
- Governorates of the Russian Empire
- Governorates of Ukraine
- History of Chernihiv Oblast
- History of Sumy Oblast
- History of Kharkiv Oblast
- History of Kiev
- 1708 establishments in Russia
- 1764 disestablishments in the Russian Empire