Kiev Viceroyalty Explained

Native Name:Киевское наместничество
Conventional Long Name:Kiev Viceroyalty
Common Name:Kiev
Subdivision:Viceroyalty
Nation:Russian Empire
Year Start:1781
Date Start:November 7
Year End:1796
Date End:November 30
P1:Kiev Governorate (1708–1764)
P2:Little Russia Governorate (1764–1781)
S1:Kiev Governorate
S2:Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802)
Image Map Caption:Kiev Viceroyalty map from 1792
Capital:Kiev
Political Subdiv:uyezds: 11
okrugs: 10 (from 1791)
Stat Year1:(1897)

Kiev Viceroyalty (Russian: Киевское наместничество|Kiyevskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1781–1796. It was created in the process of Catherine's reforms initiated by edict of November 7, 1775.

Description

On September 16, 1781, an edict was issued to transform the governorate into a viceroyalty,[1] [2] [3] [4] with the effective date of January 9, 1782. The viceroyalty was subdivided into the following counties (uyezds):

Note that some sources state that the towns of Khorol and Gorodishche were included without their districts.

In 1789, Gorodishche county was transferred to the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. In 1791, the Kiev Viceroyalty was subdivided into ten okrugs, and in early 1790s additional districts (uyezds) of Bohuslav, Gadyach, Kaniv, Zinkiv, Korsun, and Lokhvytsia were added.[5]

On June 4, 1782, the coat of arms of Kiev was officially approved, which de facto became a coat of arms of the viceroyalty. According to the description, Archangel Michael was to be dressed in silver holding up an aglow sword, depicted on an azure shield.[6]

Governors

Governor-generals (viceroys)

Viceroyalty governors

References

  1. Сергей Тархов, "Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII-XX в." (pdf), Логос, No. 1 2005 (46), сс. 65–101,
  2. Russian: Иван Фундуклей. "Статистическое описание Киевской Губернии", Часть I. Санкт-Петербург, 1852. (Ivan Fundukley. Statistical Description of Kiev Governorate. St. Petersburg, 1852)
  3. Web site: Киевская область . 2013-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080106154702/http://whp057.narod.ru/kievs.htm . 2008-01-06 . dead .
  4. http://www.strana-oz.ru/?numid=7&article=294 Справка: Административно-территориальное деление России XVIII-XX веков
  5. http://www.heraldicum.ru/ukraine/russian.htm Гербы украинских земель в составе Российской империи
  6. ПСЗ, т. XXI, №15423, cited through Гербы украинских земель в составе Российской империи