Yekaterinoslav Governorate

1802–1925 unit of Russia

Governorate in Russian Empire

Yekaterinoslav Governorate

Екатеринославская губерния

Governorate

Coat of arms

Location in the Russian Empire

Country| Russian Empire
Established| 1802
Abolished| 1925
Capital| Yekaterinoslav
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)

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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)

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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

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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)

## External links

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* Yekaterinoslav Guberniya – Historical coat of arms (in Ukrainian and English)
* Katerinoslav gubernia – Article in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

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* 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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Okruhas of the Ukrainian SSR

Volhynian Governorate|

* Zhytomyr
* Korosten
* Shepetivka

Yekaterinoslav Governorate|

* Berdyansk†
* Zaporizhia
* Katerynoslav
* Kryvyi Rih
* Melitopol
* Oleksandriia†
* Pavlohrad

Poltava Governorate|

* Zolotonosha†
* Kremenchuk
* Krasnohrad†
* Lubny
* Poltava
* Pryluky
* Romny

Podolia Governorate|

* Vinnytsia
* Kamianets
* Haisyn†
* Mohyliv
* Proskuriv
* Tulchyn

Odesa Governorate|

* Zinovievsk
* Mykolaiv
* Balta†
* Odesa
* Pershomaisk
* Kherson

Kiev Governorate|

* Berdychiv
* Bila Tserkva
* Malyn†
* Kiev
* Uman
* Shevchenkivska
* Shevchenkivska (Korsun)†

Kharkov Governorate|

* Izyum
* Kupiansk
* Okhtyrka†
* Sumy
* Kharkiv

Donetsk Governorate|

* Artemivsk
* Luhansk
* Mariupil
* Starobilsk
* Staline
* Taganrog†
* Shakhty†

Chernigov Governorate|

* Konotop
* Hlukhiv
* Nizhyn
* Chernihiv
* Snovsk†

† denoted okruhas which were abolished, merged, or transferred over to different Soviet republics in 1924–25

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