Kiev Viceroyalty

Kiev Viceroyalty
Кіевское наместничество
Viceroyalty of Russian Empire
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Kiev Viceroyalty map from 1792
Capital Kiev
History
 • Established November 7, 1775
 • Disestablished November 30, 1796
Political subdivisions uyezds: 11
okrugs: 10 (from 1791)

Kiev Viceroyalty was created in the process of the Catherine's reform initiated by hers November 7, 1775 edict when the new administrative unit namestnichestvo (viceroyalty) was introduced.

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

Note that some sources state that the towns of Khorol and Gorodishche were included without their districts.[5]

In 1789, Gorodishche county was transferred to the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. In 1791, the Kiev Viceroyalty was subdivided into ten okrugs[2] 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 is dressed in silver holding up an aglow sword, depicted on an azure shield.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Сергей Тархов, "Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII-XX в." (pdf), Логос, No. 1 2005 (46), сс. 65–101, ISSN 0869-5377
  2. 1 2 3 4 Иван Фундуклей. "Статистическое описание Киевской Губернии", Часть I. Санкт-Петербург, 1852. (Ivan Fundukley. Statistical Description of Kiev Governorate. St. Petersburg, 1852)
  3. ↑ Киевская область
  4. ↑ Справка: Административно-территориальное деление России XVIII-XX веков, Отечественные записки, № 6 (7) (2002)
  5. 1 2 Гербы украинских земель в составе Российской империи
  6. ↑ ПСЗ, т. XXI, №15423, cited through Гербы украинских земель в составе Российской империи

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