Oryol Governorate Explained

Native Name:	Орловская губерния
Conventional Long Name:	Oryol Governorate
Common Name:	Oryol
Subdivision:	Governorate
Nation:	the Russian Empire (1778/1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928)
Capital:	Oryol
Year Start:	1778/1796
Year End:	1928
Image Map Caption:	Location in the Russian Empire
P1:	Oryol Viceroyalty
S1:	Central Black Earth Oblast
Stat Year2:	1897^[1]
Stat Area1:	46,726.2
Stat Pop2:	2,033,798

Oryol Governorate (Russian: Орловская губерния|Orlovskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol.

Administrative division

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

• Bolkhovsky Uyezd (Bolkhov)
• Bryansky Uyezd (Bryansk)
• Dmitrovsky Uyezd (Dmitrovsk)
• Yeletsky Uyezd (Yelets)
• Karachevsky Uyezd (Karachev)
• Kromskoy Uyezd (Kromy)
• Livensky Uyezd (Livny)
• Maloarkhangelsky Uyezd (Maloarkhangelsk)
• Mtsensky Uyezd (Mtsensk)
• Orlovsky Uyezd (Oryol)
• Sevsky Uyezd (Sevsk)
• Trubchevsky Uyezd (Trubchevsk)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. . The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 . Demoscope Weekly . ru.