Samara Governorate

1850–1928 unit of Russia

Samara Governorate

Самарская губерния

Governorate of the Russian Empire
1850–1928

Coat of arms

Location within the Russian Empire
Capital| Samara
Population|

• 1897

| 2,751,336
History|

• Established

| 1850

• Disestablished

| 14 May 1928

Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanized: Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.[1]

## Samara Governate under the Russian Empire

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### Administrative divisions

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From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:[1]

Map of the administrative divisions of the governorate, to 1918

No.  | Uezd | County town | Coat of Arms
of the county town  | Area,
Square miles | Population[2]
(1897)

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1  | Bugulminsky | Bugulma (7 581 pop.)  |  | 10 803,1  | 299 884
2  | Buguruslansky | Buguruslan (12 109 pop.)  |  | 17 068,7  | 405 994
3  | Buzuluksky | Buzuluk (14 362 pop.)  |  | 22 427,0  | 492 952
4  | Nikolayevsky | Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.)  |  | 28 196,9  | 494 736
5  | Novouzensky | Novouzensk (13 261 pop.)  |  | 34 585,9  | 417 376
6  | Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.)  |  | 13 155,4  | 357 018
7  | Stavropolsky | Stavropol (5 969 pop.)  |  | 10 476,5  | 283 376

## Samara Governorate in the post revolutionary period until abolition (1928)

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## References

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1. ^ a b "Самарская губерния" [Samara Governorate]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St. Petersburg. 1900.`{{cite encyclopedia}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. ^ "The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. The actual population in the provinces, districts, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland)". Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics. 10 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

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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

Oblasts|

* Amur
* Belostok
* Bessarabia
* Don Host
* Transbaikal
* Kamchatka
* Caspian
* Kwantung
* Orenburg Kirghiz
* Omsk
* Primorskaya
* Sakhalin
* Taurida
* Tarnopol
* Turgay
* Ural
* Yakutsk

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai|

* Akmolinsk
* Siberian Kirghiz
* Semipalatinsk

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai|

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

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)

Baltic Governorates³|

* Courland
* Livonia
* Reval
* Riga
* Estonia

Governorates of Finland|

* Abo-Byorneborg
* Vaza
* Vyborg
* Kuopio
* Nyuland
* Sankt-Mikhel
* Tavastgus
* Uleaborg

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

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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