Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty

1783–1796 unit of Russia

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Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty

Екатеринославское наместничество

Viceroyalty of Russian Empire
1783–1796

Coat of arms

Map of 1792
Capital| Kremenchug (1783), Yekaterinoslav (1789-1796)
History|

• Established

| 26 March 1783

• Disestablished

| 31 December 1796

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Novorossiya Governorate

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| Azov Governorate
| Don Host Oblast |

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Novorossiya Governorate |
Yekaterinoslav Governorate |
Today part of| Ukraine
Russia

The Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which was created on 26 March 1783 by merging Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into re-established Novorossiya Governorate.

## Composition

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The Viceroyalty was divided into counties known as uyezds. There were around 15 counties.

### Former Novorossiysk Governorate

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* Poltava Province
* Kremenchuk county (capital)
* Kobelyaki county (previously Novye Sanzhary county)
* Poltava county
* Yelizavetgrad Province
* Yelizavetgrad county
* Olviopol county (previously Yekaterinine county)
* Petrikovka county (previously Kryukov county)
* Nikopol Province (previously Slaviansk Province)
* Krivoy Rog county (previously Ingul county)
* Nikopol county (previously Slaviansk county)
* Novye Kodaki county (previously Saksangan county)
* Kherson Province
* Kazykermen county
* Novopavlovka county
* Kherson county

### Former Azov Governorate (II)

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* Bakhmut county
* Aleksandrovsk county (New Dnieper fortification line and portion of Kalmius Palatinate)
* Yekaterinine county (Samar Palatinate)
* Marienpol county
* Natalkov county
* Pavlov county (main part of Kalmius Palatinate)
* Taganrog county
* Tor county
* Tsarychan county (Orel and Protovcha palatinates and Donets pikers regiment)

## Viceroyalty governors

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### Governor-General (Viceroy)

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* 1783 — 05.10.1791 — Grigoriy Potemkin
* 1793—1796 — Platon Zubov

### Viceroyalty governors

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* 1783—1784 — Timofei Tutomlin
* 1784—1788 — Ivan Sinelnikov
* 1789—1794 — Vasiliy Kakhovskiy
* 1794—15.12.1796 — Joseph Horvat

## References

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* Russian: Екатеринославское наместничество, romanized: Yekaterinoslavskoye namestnichestvo
* Ukrainian: Катеринославське намісництво, romanized: Katerynoslavske namisnytsvo

## See also

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* Yekaterinoslav Governorate

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