Ekaterinoslav Governorate

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coat of arms
Historical map of the governorate
Postcard from 1856 with statistical data of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate

The yekaterinoslav governorate ( Russian Екатеринославская губерния / Jekaterinoslawskaja Gubernija , Ukrainian Катеринославська губернія / Katerynoslawska hubernija ) was a province (Gubernija / губерния) of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union . The capital of the governorate was the city of Yekaterinoslav, today's Dnipro in Ukraine .

geography

The governorate lay in the south and east of today's Ukraine. It bordered on the west by the province of Kherson , on the northwest by the Poltava Governorate , north to the Kharkov Governorate , in the south of the province Tauris and the east by the Oblast of the Don Army .

It was initially divided into the following Ujesdy :

history

Since 1775 the territory of the governorate was a province of the governorate of New Russia of the Russian Empire, since 1783 there was an independent governorate, and on February 27, 1802 the governorate Yekaterinoslav was officially founded.

With the establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922, the Yekaterinoslav Governorate also became part of it. After several changes in the administrative structure, the governorate was dissolved on August 1, 1925 and the okrugs took its place : Yekaterinoslav, Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih , Melitopol and Pavlograd.

statistics

The Yekaterinoslav Governorate had an area of ​​63,395 km² until 1887 and, after the Ujesdy Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don were spun off, 56,357.37 km².

The population in 1856 was 1,039,500 and 2,113,674, including 80,979 German speakers, in the census of 1897.

The following table shows the population composition within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate according to language usage based on the census data from 1897.

Residents Ukrainian Russian Jewish German Greek Tatar white
russian 		Polish Romanian Turkish
Ekaterinoslav Ujesd 357 207 198 982 75 190 46 441 20 609 193 868 4033 7,933 1 771 168
Alexandrowsk Ujesd
(Yekaterinoslav Governorate)		 271 678 224 122 15 445 13 886 14 014 45 128 3 353 293 2 14th
Bachmut Ujesd 332 478 193 510 103 702 9 457 12 646 142 346 2,468 2,000 6 371 20th
Werchnjo-
dniprowsk Ujesd		 211 674 191 160 9 873 5 448 4 452 9 26th 236 231 68 8th
Mariupol Ujesd 254 056 117 206 35 691 10 291 19 104 48 290 15 472 1,697 528 95 5 317
Novomoskovsk Ujesd 260 368 242 737 9 628 3 635 3 452 9 7th 196 316 0 9
Pavlograd Ujesd 251 460 200 434 36 164 7 363 5 806 38 255 505 553 29 15th
Slovianoserbsk Ujesd 174 753 88 218 79 281 2 631 896 14th 151 1 564 511 839 4th
Ekaterinoslav Governorate 2 113 674 1 456 369 364 974 99 152 80 979 48 740 17 253 14 052 12 365 9 175 5 555
Residents Ukrainian Russian Jewish German Greek Tatar white
russian 		Polish Romanian Turkish
Ekaterinoslav Ujesd 357 207 55.7% 21.0% 13.0% 5.8% 0.1% 0.2% 1.1% 2.2% 0.5%
Alexandrowsk Ujesd 271 678 82.5% 5.7% 5.1% 5.2% 1.2% 0.1%
Bachmut Ujesd 332 478 58.2% 31.2% 2.8% 3.8% 0.1% 0.7% 0.6% 1.9%
Werchnjo-
dniprowsk Ujesd		 211 674 90.3% 4.7% 2.6% 2.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Mariupol Ujesd 254 056 46.1% 14.0% 4.1% 7.5% 19.0% 6.1% 0.7% 0.2% 2.1%
Novomoskovsk Ujesd 260 368 93.2% 3.7% 1.4% 1.3% 0.1% 0.1%
Pavlograd Ujesd 251 460 79.7% 14.4% 2.9% 2.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
Slovianoserbsk Ujesd 174 753 50.5% 45.4% 1.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.9% 0.3% 0.5%
Ekaterinoslav Governorate 2 113 674 68.9% 17.3% 4.7% 3.8% 2.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.4% 0.3%

See also

Web links

Commons : Yekaterinoslav Governorate  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herders Conversations-Lexikon 1854 , accessed December 22, 2013
  2. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon 1905 , accessed on December 22, 2013
  3. ^ Pierer's Universal Lexikon 1857 , accessed December 22, 2013
  4. ↑ 1897 census results , accessed December 22, 2013 (Russian)