Yekaterinoslav Governorate Explained

Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Native Name:Екатеринославская губерния
Native Name Lang:ru
Settlement Type:Governorate
Mapsize:225px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russian Empire
Established Title:Established
Established Date:1802
Extinct Title:Abolished
Extinct Date:1925
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Yekaterinoslav
Area Total Km2:63391.61
Population As Of:1897
Population Total:2,113,674[1]
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Urban:11.40%
Population Rural:88.60%
Total Type:Total

Yekaterinoslav Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav. It bordered Poltava Governorate to the north, Don Host Oblast to the east, Sea of Azov to the southeast, Taurida Governorate to the south, and Kherson Governorate to the east, and covered the area of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of modern Ukraine.

Location

The government was created in 1802 when the Novorossiya Governorate was split into three governorates. The Yekaterinoslav 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:

County Town Arms of County Town Area Population
(1897 census)
Russian Cyrillic
Александровскій 10015.8disp=brNaNdisp=br 271,678
Бахмутскій 9224.8disp=brNaNdisp=br 332,478
Верхнеднѣпровскій 6862.3disp=brNaNdisp=br 211,674
Екатеринославскій 7858disp=brNaNdisp=br 357,207
Маріупольскій 8989.2disp=brNaNdisp=br 254,056
Невомосковскій 6532disp=brNaNdisp=br 260,368
Павлоградскій 8815.7disp=brNaNdisp=br 251,460
Славяносербскій 5089disp=brNaNdisp=br 174,753
  1. Taganrog city (Таганрог) 1802–1887
  2. Rostov upon Don city 1802–1887

Changes in Russian Empire

Ukraine

South Russia

Soviet Ukraine

Okrugs

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 (Donetsk), the governorate became the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass (Donets Basin).

Its population increased to 2,113,674 by 1897. The nationalities within the governorate were Ukrainians – 68.9%, Russians – 17.3%, Jews (4.7%), Germans (3.8%), Greeks (2.3%), and Tatars (0.8%). In 1924, the governorate had 3,424,100 (13.6% urban) inhabitants, living in 5,165 settlements, 36 of them being cities and urban-type settlements. The largest social class was that of workers (about 25%).

See also: Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire.

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:

Language

Native languageYekaterinoslav Governorate
Екатеринославская губерния		For each uyezd (district)
width=12Yekaterinoslav
Екатеринославский уезд		width=12Pavlograd
Павлоградский уезд		width=12Bakhmut
Бахмутский уезд		width=12Novomoskovsk
Новомосковский уезд		width=12Mariupol
Мариупольский уезд		width=12Alexandrovsk
Александровский уезд		width=12Slavyanoserbsk
Славяносербский уезд		width=12Verkhnedneprovsk
Верхнеднепровский уезд
Number%NumberNumberNumberNumberNumberNumberNumberNumber
align = left Total align = right 2,113,674 100%align = right 357,207 align = right 251,460 align = right 332,478 align = right 260,368 align = right 254,056 align = right 271,678 align = right 174,753 align = right 211,674
align = left Great Russian (Russian)align = right 364,974align = right 17.27%align = right 75,190align = right 36,164align = right 103,702align = right 9,628align = right 35,691align = right 15,445align = right 79,281align = right 9,873
align = left Little Russian (Ukrainian)align = right 1,456,269align = right 68.90%align = right 198,982align = right 200,434align = right 193,510align = right 242,737align = right 117,206align = right 224,122align = right 88,218align = right 191,160
align = left White Russian (Belarusian)align = right 14,052align = right 0.66%align = right 4,033align = right 505align = right 2,468align = right 196align = right 1,697align = right 3,353align = right 1,564align = right 236
align = left Polishalign = right 12,365align = right 0.59%align = right 7,933align = right 553align = right 2,000align = right 316align = right 528align = right 293align = right 511align = right 231
Germanalign = right 80,979align = right 3.83%align = right 20,609align = right 5,806align = right 12,646align = right 3,452align = right 19,104align = right 14,014align = right 896align = right 4,452
align = left Frenchalign = right 908align = right 0.04%align = right 197align = right 8align = right 451align = right 50align = right 46align = right 18align = right 122align = right 16
align = left Italianalign = right 146align = right 0.01%align = right 21align = right 1align = right 37align = right 0align = right 39align = right 14align = right 25align = right 9
align = left Romanian and Moldovanalign = right 9,175align = right 0.43%align = right 1,771align = right 29align = right 6,371align = right 0align = right 95align = right 2align = right 839align = right 68
Englishalign = right 369align = right 0.02%align = right 14align = right 1align = right 284align = right 0align = right 41align = right 2align = right 13align = right 14
align = left Greekalign = right 48,740align = right 2.31%align = right 193align = right 38align = right 142align = right 9align = right 48,290align = right 45align = right 14align = right 9
align = left Jewishalign = right 99,152align = right 4.69%align = right 46,441align = right 7,363align = right 9,457align = right 3,635align = right 10,291align = right 13,886align = right 2,631align = right 5,448
align = left Tataralign = right 17,253align = right 0.82%align = right 868align = right 255align = right 346align = right 7align = right 15,472align = right 128align = right 151align = right 26
Turkishalign = right 5,555align = right 0.26%align = right 168align = right 15align = right 20align = right 9align = right 5,317align = right 14align = right 4align = right 8
align =left Roma (Gypsy)align = right 1,293align = right 0.06%align = right 103align = right 172align = right 255align = right 272align = right 21align = right 203align = right 177align = right 90
align =left Otheralign = right 1,888align = right 0.09%align = right 519align = right 71align = right 655align = right 28align = right 164align = right 77align = right 251align = right 23
align =left Unidentifiedalign = right 556align = right 0.03%align = right 165align = right 45align = right 134align = right 29align = right 54align = right 62align = right 56align = right 11

Religion

Religion !
Number ! percentage (%) ! males ! females ! In the cities ! Outside the cities ----- 1,903,264 90.05% 982,616 920,648 167,263 1,736,001 ----- 101,088 4.78% 51,679 49,409 64,024 37,064 ----- 39,530 1.87% 19,972 19,558 2,085 37,445 ----- Roman Catholics 32,154 1.52% 17,658 14,496 5,388 26,766 ----- 23,922 1.13% 12,132 11,790 208 23,714 ----- Old Believers and deviants from orthodoxy 9,393 0.44% 4,699 4,694 421 8,972 ----- 2,090 0.10% 1,700 390 1,039 1,051 ----- 1,150 0.05% 606 544 5 1,145 ----- Armenian-Gregorian 448 0.02% 301 147 225 223 ----- 359 0.02% 178 181 302 57 ----- Reformed Christian 157 0.01% 95 62 15 142 ----- 46 0.00% 26 20 16 30 ----- Other 73 0.00% 53 20 14 43 ----- Total 2,113,674 100% 1,091,715 1,021,959 241,005 1,872,669 +

Governors

General-Governors
Governors

Chairmen of the Governorate

Revkoms
Ispolkom

Chekists

As an independent governmental organization
As part of the State Political Directorate (GPU)

Notable people

See also

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Troynitsky, Nikolay . Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской империи 1897 г. XIII. Екатеринославская губерния . Izdanie Tsentral'nogo statisticheskogo komiteta Ministerstva vnutrennikh del . 1904 . 6th . The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. 13. Ekaterinoslav Province . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201205744/https://www.prlib.ru/item/436628 . 1 December 2022.
  2. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=426 Population of Yekaterinoslav
  3. The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897, Ed. N.A.Troynitskogo. t.I. The total body of the Empire's first general census of population development results produced by 28 January 1897. St. Petersburg, 1905. Table XII. Population by religions.
    Religion Statistics of 1897 Yekaterinoslav
    Religion Statistics of 1897 Yekaterinoslav in the cities

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