Yekaterinoslav Governorate


The Yekaterinoslav Governorate or Government of Yekaterinoslav was a governorate in the Russian Empire. Its capital was the city of Yekaterinoslav. Its territory lies within what is now Ukraine.

Location

The government was created in 1802 out the Yekaterinoslav vice-regency. It is located within the former lands of Zaporizhian Sich. The governorate bordered to the north with the Kharkov Governorate and Poltava Governorate, to the west and southwest with the Kherson Governorate, to the south with the Taurida Governorate and Sea of Azov, and to the east with Don Host Oblast.

Administrative divisions

The governorate was created in place of Novorossiysk Governorate in 1802 and encompassed a huge area of the southern Ukraine. Officially, the new governorate was created as Ekaterinoslav Governorate in 1802 and subdivided into the following uyezds with centres in:
  1. Yekaterinoslav 1802–1923
  2. Pavlograd 1802–1923
  3. Bakhmut 1802–1920 transferred to Governorate of Donetsk
  4. Novomoskovsk 1802–1923
  5. Mariupol 1802–1807, 1874–1923
  6. Aleksandrovsk 1805–1920 transferred to Governorate of Zaporizhia, created from both Mariupol and Pavlohrad
  7. Slavyanoserbsk 1805–1920 created out Bakhmut, transferred to Governorate of Donetsk
  8. Verkhnodneprovsk 1805–1923, created out Yekaterinoslav uyezd
  9. Taganrog 1805–1887, 1918
  10. Taganrog city 1802–1887
  11. Rostov upon Don city 1802–1887

Changes in Russian Empire

List of okruhas of Ukraine upon the dissolution of the Governorate:
  1. Yekaterinoslav
  2. Zaporizhia
  3. Kryvyi Rih
  4. Melitopol
  5. Pavlohrad

    Demographics

The governorate's population, a majority of peasants, was 662,000 in 1811, 902,400 in 1851, 1,204,800 in 1863, and 1,792,800 in 1885. From the second half of the 19th century, with the founding of Yuzovka, the governorate became the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass.
Its population increased to 2,113,674 by 1897. The nationalities within the governorate were: Russians, Jews, Germans, Greeks, and Tatars. In 1924, the governorate had 3,424,100 inhabitants, living in 5,165 settlements, 36 of them being cities and urban-type settlements. The largest social class was that of workers.

Principal cities

The data is taken from demoscope.ru. Here is also the most common language composition.
From the turn of the 19th century until 1887 city of Rostov-na-Donu and all the Taganrog uyezd were part of the governorate, but before the census of 1897 took place they were transferred to the Don oblast. Note that the biggest city of the guberniya was the city of Rostov-na-Donu while Taganrog was not much smaller and the third in size. Here is the data on them:
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