Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty Explained
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Conventional Long Name: | Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty |
| Common Name: | Yekaterinoslav |
| Subdivision: | Viceroyalty |
| Nation: | Russian Empire |
| Year Start: | 1783 |
| Date Start: | March 26 |
| Year End: | 1796 |
| Date End: | December 31 |
| P1: | Novorossiya Governorate |
| P2: | Azov Governorate |
| S1: | Don Host Oblast |
| S2: | Novorossiya Governorate |
| S3: | Yekaterinoslav Governorate |
| Image Map Caption: | Map of 1792 |
| Capital: | Kremenchug (1783), Yekaterinoslav (1789-1796) |
| Today: | Ukraine
Russia |
The Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which was created on 26 March 1783 by merging Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into re-established Novorossiya Governorate.
Composition
The Viceroyalty was divided into counties known as uyezds. There were around 15 counties.
Former Novorossiysk Governorate
- Poltava Province
- Kremenchuk county (capital)
- Kobelyaki county (previously Novye Sanzhary county)
- Poltava county
- Yelizavetgrad Province
- Yelizavetgrad county
- Olviopol county (previously Yekaterinine county)
- Petrikovka county (previously Kryukov county)
- Nikopol Province (previously Slaviansk Province)
- Krivoy Rog county (previously Ingul county)
- Nikopol county (previously Slaviansk county)
- Novye Kodaki county (previously Saksangan county)
- Kherson Province
- Kazykermen county
- Novopavlovka county
- Kherson county
Former Azov Governorate (II)
- Bakhmut county
- Aleksandrovsk county (New Dnieper fortification line and portion of Kalmius Palatinate)
- Yekaterinine county (Samar Palatinate)
- Marienpol county
- Natalkov county
- Pavlov county (main part of Kalmius Palatinate)
- Taganrog county
- Tor county
- Tsarychan county (Orel and Protovcha palatinates and Donets pikers regiment)
Viceroyalty governors
Governor-General (Viceroy)
- 1783 — 05.10.1791 — Grigoriy Potemkin
- 1793—1796 — Platon Zubov
Viceroyalty governors
- 1783—1784 — Timofei Tutomlin
- 1784—1788 — Ivan Sinelnikov
- 1789—1794 — Vasiliy Kakhovskiy
- 1794—15.12.1796 — Joseph Horvat
See also
