Kaluga Governorate Explained

Native Name:Калужская губерния
Conventional Long Name:Kaluga Governorate
Subdivision:Governorate
Nation:the Russian Empire
Year Start:1796
Date Start:12 December
Year End:1929
Date End:1 October
P1:Kaluga Viceroyalty
S1:Kaluga Oblast
Capital:Kaluga
Stat Pop1:1,132,843[1]
Stat Area1:28,993
Stat Year1:1897
Image Map Caption:Location in the Russian Empire

Kaluga Governorate (Russian: Калужская губерния|Kaluzhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.[2] Its capital was Kaluga.[3]

Administrative division

Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language.[4]

Further reading

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. . 2024-02-18 . www.demoscope.ru.
  2. http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=ESU;n=17397 Постановление ВЦИК от 14.01.1929 «Об образовании на территории Р. С. Ф. С. Р. административно-территориальных объединений краевого и областного значения»
  3. Web site: Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 г. . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407084359/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_26.php?reg=108 . 2014-04-07 . dead.
  4. http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=490