Podolian Governorate


The Podolia Governorate or Government of Podolia, set up after the Second Partition of Poland, comprised a governorate of the Russian Empire from 1793 to 1917, of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921, and of the Ukrainian SSR from 1921 to 1925.
Also it was referred after its historical name Podillia.

History

The Government of Podolia was established right after the Second Partition of Poland in place of the former Podole and Bracław Voivodeships in 1793.

Location

The Podolian Governorate occupied the southwestern frontier of the former Russian empire, bordering Austria-Hungary, and had an area of about 42,000 km². The administrative centre was Kamenets-Podolskiy until 1914 when it moved to Vinnytsia.
Podolia Governorate was one of the three governorates of the Southwestern Krai administration. In 1917 it was recognized by the Russian Provisional Government to be governed by the General Secretariat of Ukraine as the representative of the Russian Provisional Government in the region.

Administrative division

Uyezd subdivision

Until 1918 the governorate consisted of 12 uyezds :
  1. Baltsky Uyezd
  2. Bratslavsky Uyezd
  3. Vinnitsky Uyezd
  4. Gaysinsky Uyezd
  5. Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd
  6. Letichevsky Uyezd
  7. Litinsky Uyezd
  8. Mogilyovsky Uyezd
  9. Olgopolsky Uyezd
  10. Proskurovsky Uyezd
  11. Ushitsky Uyezd
  12. Yampolsky Uyezd

Okruha subdivision

On 12 April 1923 all uyezds were transformed into okruhas, while volosts – into raions. Okruhas served as a subdivision of government until it was abolished on 1 August 1925. Together with the government of Podilia, the Haisyn okruha was dissolved as well. Some territory of Tulchyn okruha were included into the newly formed Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Russian Census of 1897:
The Imperial census of 1897 produced the following statistics. Bold type marks languages spoken by more people than the state language. In 1897 3,018,299 people lived in the governorate of Podolia.
The cities had 221,870 inhabitants, comprising about 7.35% of the total population. About 46.06% of the urban population consisted of Jews, 32.54% of Ukrainians, 15.03% of Russians, and 4.90% of Poles.

Religion

The Imperial census of 1897 reported:
's shul in Medzhybizh, Ukraine. The shul no longer exists.
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