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The Yekaterinoslav Governorate (Russian: Екатеринославская губернiя; translit.: Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya) or Government of Yekaterinoslav was a governorate in the Russian Empire. Its capital was the city of Yekaterinoslav (modern Dnipropetrovsk).
[edit] Administrative divisions In 1764, the Novorossiya Governorate had been created to administer much of the southern steppe after the removal of the Zaporozhian Host and its integration into Russia proper. The governorate encompassed a huge area of most of today's southern Ukraine approximately stretching from Prut river to Don river. It was commonly referred to as the New Russia, implying the colonization of the territory by the Russian Empire. The governorate was replaced by the Yekaterinoslav Vicegerency in 1783 but was again reinstated in 1796. In 1802, its territory was divided among the newly created Nikolayev Governorate (from 1803 Kherson Governorate), Taurida Governorate, and Yekaterinoslav Governorate. Officially the new governorate was created as Yekaterinoslav Governorate in 1803 and subdivided into the following uyezds:
In 1874, the Mariupol (Марiуполь) uyezd was split off the Aleksanrovsk uyezd, and in 1887, the Rostov-na-Donu uyezd was transferred to the Oblast of the Don Host. In 1918 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 nationalist-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 1920. In the course of the Russian Civil War the governorate was further divided and parts of its territory formed the briefly existing Aleksandrovsk (renamed Zaporozhia), Kremenchuk and Donetsk governorates in 1920. In 1923, the governorate of administration was terminated, and its territory, 76,912 km², was divided among seven okrugs: Yekaterinoslav, Aleksandrovsk, Berdiansk, Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, Melitopol, and Pavlohrad. This eventually was condensed into the Oblast divisions, and the territory of the modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the bulk of Zaporizhia Oblast correspond to the historical subdivision, as well as parts of the Luhansk Oblast including its present administrative centre - Luhansk. [edit] DemographicsThe 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, the governorate was 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: Russians (then divided into archaic categorisation of Little Russian (i.e. Ukrainian) speakers - 68.9 % and Great Russian speakers - 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. [edit] Language
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