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    Yekaterinoslav Governorate

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    Yekaterinoslav Governorate
    Екатеринославская губерния
    Governorate
    Coat of arms of Yekaterinoslav Governorate
    Coat of arms
    Location in the Russian Empire
    Location in the Russian Empire
    CountryRussian Empire
    Established1802
    Abolished1925
    CapitalYekaterinoslav
    Area
     • Total
    		63,391.61 km2 (24,475.64 sq mi)
    Population
     (1897)
     • Total
    		2,113,674[1][2]
     • Urban
    		11.40%
     • Rural
    		88.60%

    Yekaterinoslav Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav. Covering an area of 63,392 km2 (24,476 sq mi), and being composed of a inhabitant of 2,113,674 by the census of 1897,[1] it bordered Poltava Governorate to the north, Don Host Oblast to the east, Sea of Azov to the southeast, Taurida Governorate to the south, and Kherson Governorate to the west, and covered the area of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of modern Ukraine.

    Yekaterinoslav Governorate in 1913

    Location

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    The government was created in 1802 when the Novorossiya Governorate was split into three governorates. The Yekaterinoslav Governorate 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

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    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:

    County County Town Arms of County Town Area Population
    (1897 census)
    Transliteration name Russian Cyrillic
    Aleksandrovsky Александровскій Aleksandrovsk
    		10,015.8 km2
    (3,867.1 sq mi)    		 271,678
    Bakhmutsky Бахмутскій Bakhmut
    		9,224.8 km2
    (3,561.7 sq mi)    		 332,478
    Verkhnedneprovsky Верхнеднѣпровскій Verkhnedniprovsk
    		6,862.3 km2
    (2,649.5 sq mi)    		 211,674
    Yekaterinoslavsky Екатеринославскій Yekaterinoslav
    		7,858 km2
    (3,034 sq mi)    		 357,207
    Mariupolsky Маріупольскій Mariupol
    		8,989.2 km2
    (3,470.7 sq mi)    		 254,056
    Novomoskovsky Невомосковскій Novomoskovsk
    		6,532 km2
    (2,522 sq mi)    		 260,368
    Pavlogradsky Павлоградскій Pavlograd
    		8,815.7 km2
    (3,403.8 sq mi)    		 251,460
    Slavyanoserbsky Славяносербскій Lugansk
    		5,089 km2
    (1,965 sq mi)    		 174,753
    1. Taganrog city (Таганрог) 1802–1887
    2. Rostov upon Don city 1802–1887
    Ukraine's modern border superimposed on the administrative division of 1900 for both the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian Empires. The borders of the uyezds can be seen from this map

    Changes in Russian Empire

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    • 1874, the Mariupol (Марiуполь) uyezd was split off the Aleksandrovsk uyezd.
    • 1887, Rostov-na-Donu city as well as Taganrog city with its uyezd were transferred back to the Don Host Oblast.

    Ukraine

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    • 1918, Taganrog uyezd was transferred once again, but without the Taganrog city and later again returned to the Don Voisko Province. The Ukrainian People's Republic passed the law for the reformation of the Ukrainian administrative division dividing the governorate into five new lands. The law has failed to be implemented and was canceled due to the conservative coup d'état of Pavlo Skoropadsky and establishment of the Ukrainian State. Thus the territory of the governorate was left unchanged and sustained without any major changes until 1919.

    South Russia

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    • 1919 Krivyi Rih uyezd was created partially out of the newly annexed lands of the Kherson Governorate.

    Soviet Ukraine

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    • 1920 Governorate yielded few territories in favor of the newly created Olexandrivsk (Alexandrovsk) Governorate and Donetsk Governorate
    • 1922 Zaporizhia Governorate, as renamed, was abolished and its territories returned under the subordination of Yekaterinoslav Governorate together with some of Kremenchuk Governorate.
    • 1923 All Governorates uyezds were reformed into seven okrugs with two of them (Berdiansk and Oleksandriysk okrugs) liquidated on 3 June 1925.
    • On 1 August 1925, the Yekaterinoslav Governorate administration was discontinued.

    Okrugs (okruhas)

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

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

    Demographics

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    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 Ukrainians – 68.9%, Russians – 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%).

    See also: Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire

    Principal cities

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

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

    • Yekaterinoslav – 112,839[3] (1897), (Russian – 47,140, Jewish – 39,979, Ukrainian – 17,787)
    • Mariupol – 31,116 (Russian – 19,670, Jewish – 4,710, Ukrainian – 3,125)
    • Lugansk – 20,404 (Russian – 13,907, Ukrainian – 3,902, Jewish – 1,449)
    • Bakhmut – 19,316 (Ukrainian – 11,928, Russian – 3,659, Jewish – 3,223)
    • Aleksandrovsk – 18,849 (Ukrainian – 8,101, Jewish – 5,248, Russian – 4,667)
    • Pavlograd 15,775 (Russian – 5,421, Ukrainian – 5,273, Jewish – 4,353)
    • Novomoskovsk – 12,883 (Ukrainian – 9,956, Jewish – 1,436, Russian – 1,237)
    • Verkhnedneprovsk – 6,501 (Ukrainian – 3,752, Jewish – 2,061, Russian – 739)
    • Slavianoserbsk – 3,122 (Russian – 1,607, Ukrainian – 1,342, Jewish – 143)

    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:

    • Rostov-na-Donu – 119,476 (Russian – 94,673, Jewish – 11,183, Ukrainian – 5,612)
    • Taganrog – 51,437 (Russian – 40,899, Ukrainian – 4,676, Jewish – 2,685)

    Language

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    • By the Imperial census of 1897.
    Native language Yekaterinoslav Governorate
    Екатеринославская губерния[2]     		For each uyezd (district)
    Yekaterinoslav
    Екатеринославский уезд[4]     		Pavlograd
    Павлоградский уезд[5]     		Bakhmut
    Бахмутский уезд[6]     		Novomoskovsk
    Новомосковский уезд[7]     		Mariupol
    Мариупольский уезд[8]     		Alexandrovsk
    Александровский уезд[9]     		Slavyanoserbsk
    Славяносербский уезд[10]     		Verkhnedneprovsk
    Верхнеднепровский уезд[11]
    Number % Number Number Number Number Number Number Number Number
    Total 2,113,674 100% 357,207 251,460 332,478 260,368 254,056 271,678 174,753 211,674
    Great Russian (Russian) 364,974 17.27% 75,190 36,164 103,702 9,628 35,691 15,445 79,281 9,873
    Little Russian (Ukrainian) 1,456,269 68.90% 198,982 200,434 193,510 242,737 117,206 224,122 88,218 191,160
    White Russian (Belarusian) 14,052 0.66% 4,033 505 2,468 196 1,697 3,353 1,564 236
    Polish 12,365 0.59% 7,933 553 2,000 316 528 293 511 231
    German 80,979 3.83% 20,609 5,806 12,646 3,452 19,104 14,014 896 4,452
    French 908 0.04% 197 8 451 50 46 18 122 16
    Italian 146 0.01% 21 1 37 0 39 14 25 9
    Romanian and Moldovan 9,175 0.43% 1,771 29 6,371 0 95 2 839 68
    English 369 0.02% 14 1 284 0 41 2 13 14
    Greek 48,740 2.31% 193 38 142 9 48,290 45 14 9
    Jewish 99,152 4.69% 46,441 7,363 9,457 3,635 10,291 13,886 2,631 5,448
    Tatar 17,253 0.82% 868 255 346 7 15,472 128 151 26
    Turkish 5,555 0.26% 168 15 20 9 5,317 14 4 8
    Roma (Gypsy) 1,293 0.06% 103 172 255 272 21 203 177 90
    Other 1,888 0.09% 519 71 655 28 164 77 251 23
    Unidentified 556 0.03% 165 45 134 29 54 62 56 11

    Religion

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    • By the Imperial census of 1897.[12]
    Religion Number percentage (%) males females In the cities Outside the cities
    Eastern Orthodox 1,903,264 90.05% 982,616 920,648 167,263 1,736,001
    Judaism 101,088 4.78% 51,679 49,409 64,024 37,064
    Lutherans 39,530 1.87% 19,972 19,558 2,085 37,445
    Roman Catholics 32,154 1.52% 17,658 14,496 5,388 26,766
    Mennonites 23,922 1.13% 12,132 11,790 208 23,714
    Old Believers and deviants from orthodoxy 9,393 0.44% 4,699 4,694 421 8,972
    Muslims 2,090 0.10% 1,700 390 1,039 1,051
    Baptists 1,150 0.05% 606 544 5 1,145
    Armenian-Gregorian 448 0.02% 301 147 225 223
    Karaites 359 0.02% 178 181 302 57
    Reformed Christian 157 0.01% 95 62 15 142
    Anglican 46 0.00% 26 20 16 30
    Other 73 0.00% 53 20 14 43
    Total 2,113,674 100% 1,091,715 1,021,959 241,005 1,872,669

    Governors

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    General-Governors
    • 1823–1844 Mikhail Vorontsov
    Governors
    • 1802–1803 Sergei Bekleshov
    • 1803–1809 Pyotr Berg
    • 1809–1817 Kirill Gladkiy
    • 1817–1820 Ivan Kalageorgiy
    • 1820–1823 Viktor Shemiot
    • 1823–1824 Trofim Tsalaban
    • 1824–1828 Alexei Svyechin
    • 1828–1831 Dmitriy Zakhorzhevskiy
    • 1831–1832 Otto Frank
    • 1832–1836 Nikanor Longinov
    • 1836–1837 Dmitriy Safonov (vice-governor)

    Chairmen of the Governorate

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    Revkoms
    • 26 October 1917 – ? Emmanuil Kviring
    • November 1919 – 1920 Sergei Minin
    Ispolkom
    • February 1919 – 1920 Vasiliy Averin
    • 1920 – 1921 Ivan Klymenko
    • 1921 Stepan Vlasenko
    • ? – 1923 Yakov Kuznetsov
    • 1923 – 1924 Samokhvalov
    • February 1925 – August 1925 Ivan Gavrilov

    Chekists

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    As an independent governmental organization
    Membership ticket of Committees of Poor Peasants, Oleksandriia district, 1924 (for Kyrylo Ivanovych Turbaivskyi)
    • 1919: Vasyl Valiavko (transferred to Volyn Cheka)
    • 1919–1920: Aleksandr Alpov (transferred to Mykolaiv Cheka)
    As part of the State Political Directorate (GPU)
    • 24 May 1922 – 16 February 1923: Izrail Leplevskiy (transferred to Podolia Cheka)
    • 1923: P. Onishchenko
    • 1 September 1924 – 1 September 1925: Semyon Dukelsky

    Notable people

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    • Fedir Shchus, (Ukrainian: Федір Щусь, 25 March 1893 – 30 June 1921) also Fyodor Shuss or Feodosiy Shchus, was an Anarchist revolutionary, commander (ataman) in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.
    • Viktor Bilash, (Ukrainian: Віктор Федорович Білаш; 1893 – 24 January 1938) was the Anarchist Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) under Nestor Makhno.

    See also

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    • Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty
    • Governor's House (Dnipro)

    Notes

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    1. ^
      • Russian: Екатериносла́вская губе́рния, pre-reform orthography: Екатериносла́вская губе́рнія, romanized: Yekaterinoslávskaya gubérniya}
      • Ukrainian: Катериносла́вська губе́рнія, romanized: Katerynoslávsʼka hubérniia
      • Sometimes in English as well: Ekaterinoslav Governorate
      • Also known as Katerynoslavshchyna, (Ukrainian: Катеринославщина; Russian: Екатеринославщина, romanized: Yekaterinoslavshchina)

    References

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    1. ^ a b Troynitsky, Nikolay (1904). Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской империи 1897 г. XIII. Екатеринославская губерния [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. 13. Ekaterinoslav Province] (6th ed.). Izdanie Tsentral'nogo statisticheskogo komiteta Ministerstva vnutrennikh del. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022.
    2. ^ a b Екатеринославская губерния – вся [Yekaterinoslav Governorate, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    3. ^ Population of Yekaterinoslav
    4. ^ Екатеринославский уезд – весь [Yekaterinoslav Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    5. ^ Павлоградский уезд – весь [Pavlograd Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    6. ^ Бахмутский уезд- весь [Bakhmut Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    7. ^ Новомосковский уезд – весь [Novomoskovsk Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    8. ^ Мариупольский уезд – весь [Mariupol Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    9. ^ Александровский уезд – весь [Alexandrovsk Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    10. ^ Славяносербский уезд – весь [Slavyanoserbsk Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    11. ^ Верхнеднепровский уезд – весь [Verkhnedneprovsk Uyezd, all], Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России [The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population by mother tongue and uyezd of 50 provinces of European Russia.], Демоскоп Weekly
    12. ^ The first national census of the Russian Empire in 1897, Ed. N.A.Troynitskogo. t.I. The total body of the Empire's first general census of population development results produced by 28 January 1897. St. Petersburg, 1905. Table XII. Population by religions.
      Religion Statistics of 1897 Yekaterinoslav (in Russian)
      Religion Statistics of 1897 Yekaterinoslav in the cities (in Russian)
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