Yekaterinoslav Governorate

Ekaterinoslav Governorate
Екатеринославская губернiя
Governorate of Russian Empire, Ukrainian State, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

1802–1925

Coat of arms

A historic map of the Ekaterinoslav Governorate.
Capital Ekaterinoslav
History
  Established 27 February 1802
  Disestablished 1 August 1925
Population
  (1897) 2,113,700 
Political subdivisions uezds: 8 (9 1874–85)

The Ekaterinoslav Governorate; Ekaterinoslav Gubernia[1] (Russian: Екатеринославская губернiя; translit.: Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya; Ukrainian: Катеринославська губернія) or Government of Ekaterinoslav was a governorate in the Russian Empire. Its capital was the city of Ekaterinoslav. The capital later became Dnipropetrovsk and its territory lies within what is now Ukraine.

Location

Map of the Southwestern region of Russian Empire with the Government of Ekaterinoslav marked in red
  Governorate of Ekaterinoslav

The government was created in 1802 out the Ekaterinoslav Vice-regency. It is located within the former lands of Zaporizhian Sich. The government bordered to the north with the Kharkov Governorate and Poltava Governorate, to the west and southwest with the Kherson Governorate, to the south with the Taurida Governorate and Sea of Azov, and to the east with Don Host Oblast.

Administrative divisions

An old postcard depicting Ekaterinoslav, the governorate's capital at the time.

The governorate was created in place of Novorossiysk Governorate in 1802 and encompassed a huge area of the southern Ukraine. Officially, the new governorate was created as Ekaterinoslav Governorate in 1802 and subdivided into the following uyezds with centres in:

  1. Ekaterinoslav (Екатеринославъ, Катеринослав) 1802–1923
  2. Pavlograd (Павлоградъ, Павлоград) 1802–1923
  3. Bakhmut (Бахмутъ, Бахмут) 1802–1920 transferred to Government of Donetsk
  4. Novomoskovsk (Новомосковскъ, Новомосковськ) 1802–1923
  5. Mariupol 1802–1807, 1874–1923 (1807–1874 part of Aleksandrovsk as Greek district)
  6. Aleksandrovsk (Александровскъ, Олександрівськ) 1805–1920 transferred to Government of Zaporizhia, created from both Mariupol and Pavlohrad
  7. Slavyanoserbsk (Славяносербскъ, Слав'яносербськ) 1805–1920 created out Bakhmut, transferred to Government of Donetsk
  8. Verkhnodneprovsk (Верходнѣпровскъ, Верхньодніпровськ) 1805–1923, created out Yekaterinoslav uyezd
  9. Taganrog 1805–1887, 1918 (1887–1918 part of Don Host Oblast)
  1. Taganrog city (Таганрог) 1802–1887
  2. Rostov upon Don city 1802–1887

Changes in Russian Empire

Ukraine

South Russia

Soviet Ukraine

Okrugs

List of okruhas of Ukraine upon the dissolution of the Governorate:

  1. Ekaterinoslav
  2. Zaporizhia
  3. Kryvyi Rih
  4. Melitopol
  5. Pavlohrad

Demographics

The governorate's population, a majority of peasants, was 662,000 in 1811, 902,400 in 1851, 1,204,800 in 1863, and 1,792,800 in 1885. From the second half of the 19th century, with the founding of Yuzovka (Donetsk), the governorate became the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass (Donets Basin).

Its population increased to 2,113,674 by 1897. The nationalities within the governorate were: Russians (then divided into archaic categorisation of Little Russian (i.e. Ukrainian) speakers – 68.9% and Great Russian speakers – 17.3%), Jews (4.7%), Germans (3.8%), Greeks (2.3%), and Tatars (0.8%). In 1924, the governorate had 3,424,100 (13.6% urban) inhabitants, living in 5,165 settlements, 36 of them being cities and urban-type settlements. The largest social class was that of workers (about 25%).

Principal cities

The data is taken from demoscope.ru. Here is also the most common language composition.

From the turn of the 19th century until 1887 city of Rostov-na-Donu and all the Taganrog uyezd were part of the governorate, but before the census of 1897 took place they were transferred to the Don oblast. Note that the biggest city of the guberniya was the city of Rostov-na-Donu while Taganrog was not much smaller and the third in size. Here is the data on them:

Language

Language Number percentage (%) males females
Ukrainian 1,456,369 68.90
Russian 364,974 17.27
Yiddish 99,152 4.69
German 80,979 3.83
Greek 48,740 2.31
Tatar 17,253 0.82
Belorussian 14,052 0.66
Polish 12,365 0.59
Romanian[4] 9,175 0.43
Turkish 5,555 0.26
Roma 1,293 0.06
Other[5] 3,626 0.17
Persons,
that did not identified
their native language
56 <0.01

Religion

Religion Number percentage (%) males females
Eastern Orthodox 1,903,264 90.05
Judaism 101,088 4.78
Lutherans 39 530 1.87
Roman Catholics 32 154 1.52
Menonites 23 922 1.13
Other[7] 13 716 0.65

Governors

General-Governors
Governors

Chairmen of Governorate

Revkoms
Ispolkom

Chekists

Cheka
Gub-department of GPU

References

  1. Ekaterinoslav Gubernia
  2. Population of Yekaterinoslav
  3. Language Statistics of 1897 (Russian)
  4. including Moldavian language
  5. Languages, number of speakers which in all guberniya were less than 1,000
  6. Religion Statistics of 1897 (Russian)
  7. Religions, number of believers which in all gubernia were less than 10000

External links

Coordinates: 48°27′00″N 34°59′00″E / 48.4500°N 34.9833°E / 48.4500; 34.9833

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