Oblasts of the Russian Empire

Administrative unit in the Russian Empire

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Oblasts of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire in 1914
Category| Subdivision of an empire
Location|  Russian Empire
Created|

* 1849

Abolished|

* 1917 (inherited by the Soviet regime)

Number| 35
Subdivisions|

* uyezds (counties)

Oblasts in the Russian Empire were considered to be administrative units and were included as parts of Governorates General or krais.[1] The majority of then-existing oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived.

## List

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* Amur Oblast
* Armenian Oblast
* Batum Oblast
* Belostok Oblast
* Bessarabia Oblast
* Don Voisko Oblast
* Dagestan Oblast
* Zabaikalskaya Oblast
* Imeretinskaya Oblast ru
* Caucasian
* Kamchatka Oblast
* Kars Oblast
* Caspian Oblast (1840-1846) ru
* Kvantunskaya Oblast
* Kuban Oblast
* Orenburg Kirgiz
* Omsk Oblast
* Primorskaya Oblast
* Sakhalin
* Taurida Oblast (1783-1796), annexation of the Crimean Khanate
* Tarnopolsky
* Terek Oblast
* Turgay Oblast
* Ural Oblast
* Yakutsk Oblast

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai

* Akmolinsk Oblast
* Siberia Kirgiz
* Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai

* Transcaspian Oblast
* Samarkand Oblast
* Syr-Darya Oblast
* Turkestan Oblast
* Fergana Oblast
* Semirechye Oblast

## See also

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* Oblasts of the Soviet Union
* Oblasts of Russia
* Voblasts of Belarus

## References

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1. ^ "Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2024-12-29.

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Subdivisions of the Russian Empire

Governorates
(List)|

* Azov¹
* +Altai²
* Arkhangelsk
* Archangelgorod
* Astrakhan
* Belgorod
* Bessarabia
* Bratslav
* Belarus
* Caucasus
* Chernigov
* Grodno
* Finland
* Iziaslav
* Ingermanland
* Irkutsk
* Kazan
* Kaluga
* Kiev (1708)
* Kiev
* Kharkov
* Kherson
* Kholm
* Kovno
* Kolyvan
* Kostroma
* Kursk
* Lithuania
* Little Russia (1764)
* Little Russia (1796)
* Minsk
* Mogilev
* Moscow
* Nikolayev
* Nizhny Novgorod
* Novgorod-Seversky
* Novgorod
* Novorossiya
* Olonets
* Orenburg
* Oryol
* Penza
* Perm
* *Petrograd²
* Podolia
* Polotsk
* Poltava
* Pskov
* Ryazan
* Samara
* Saint Petersburg
* Saratov
* Siberia
* Simbirsk
* Sloboda Ukraine
* Slonim
* Smolensk
* Stavropol
* Taurida
* Tambov
* Tver
* Tobolsk
* Tomsk
* Tula
* Ufa
* Vilna
* Vitebsk
* Vladimir
* Voznesensk
* Vologda
* Volhynia
* Voronezh
* Vyatka
* Vyborg
* Yaroslavl
* Yekaterinoslav
* Yeniseysk

| Baltic Governorates³|

* Courland
* Livonia
* Reval
* Riga
* Estonia

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Governorates of Finland|

* Åbo-Björneborg
* Vasa
* Vyborg
* Kuopio
* Nyland
* St. Michel
* Tavastehus
* Uleåborg

Governorates of Poland|

* Avgustov
* Warsaw
* Kalish
* Keltsy
* Krakov
* Lomzha
* Lyublin
* Mazovia
* Petrokov
* Plotsk
* Podlyashye
* Radom
* Sandomir
* Sedlets
* Suvalki

Governorates of
Galicia and Bukovina|

* Lvov
* Peremyshl
* Tarnopol
* Chernovtsy

Oblasts|

* Belostok
* Bessarabia
* Don Host
* Caspian
* Kwantung
* Orenburg Kirghiz
* Omsk
* Taurida
* Tarnopol
* Yakutsk

| The Steppes|

* Akmolinsk
* Siberian Kirghiz
* Semipalatinsk
* Turgay
* Ural

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Turkestan|

* Transcaspian
* Samarkand
* Semirechye Oblast
* Syr-Darya Oblast
* Turkestan
* Fergana

Priamurye|

* Amur
* Transbaikal
* Kamchatka
* Primorskaya
* Sakhalin

Caucasus Viceroyalty|

* Baku (Governorate)
* Black Sea
* Derbent
* Elizavetpol
* Erivan
* Georgia-Imeretia
* Georgia
* Kutaisi
* Shemakha
* Tiflis
* Armenian
* Batum
* Dagestan
* Imeretia
* Kars
* Kuban
* Terek
* Sukhumi
* Zakatal
* Baku (Gradonachalstvo)

Dependencies|

* Bukey Horde
* Emirate of Bukhara
* Khanate of Kokand
* Russian America
* *Uryankhay Krai²
* Khanate of Khiva
* Zeravshan Okrug

¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914.
² An asterisk (+) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
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