Odesa Governorate Explained

Native Name:Одеська губернія
Conventional Long Name:Odesa Governorate
Common Name:Odesa
Subdivision:Governorate
Nation:Ukrainian SSR
Year Start:1920
Event Start:Split of Kherson Governorate
Event End:abolished (Okruhas of Ukraine)
Date End:1 August
Year End:1925
Event1:Moldavian ASSR
Date Event1:1924
P1:Kherson Governorate
P2:Mykolaiv Governorate
S1:Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Flag S1:Flag of the Moldavian ASSR (1925-1932).svg
S2:Odesa Okruha
S3:Mykolaiv Okruha
S4:Kherson Okruha
S5:Zynovyevsk Okruha
S6:Pershomaisk Okruha
Capital:Odesa

Odesa Governorate, was a territorial division of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine) that was created in January 1920 by a decision of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (Soviet regime). The new governorate was initially created from the western part of the Kherson Governorate (which was later renamed Mykolaiv Governorate, and then merged with the rest of Odesa Governorate).

The western parts of the Odesa Governorate would serve as the foundation for the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.[1]

Odesa Governorate was dissolved during the administrative reform of 1925.

Subdivisions

A governorate was divided into counties (Russian uezd; Ukrainian povit).

Former Mykolaiv Governorate

Notes and References

  1. Book: Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926 - 1936. 23 April 2013. 2003. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-4029-8. 57–.