Grodno Governorate
The Grodno Governorate (Гро́дненская губе́рнiя) was a governorate in the Russian Empire . It was established in 1801 and expanded in 1815 to include the areas around Białystok , which had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw . Today its territory belongs to Poland in the western part , but otherwise to Belarus .
It had an area of about 38,669 km², the capital was Grodno (Lithuanian Gardinas).
structure
The governorate was divided into nine districts :
- Bjelistok (now in Poland: Białystok )
- Bjelsk (now in Poland: Bielsk Podlaski )
- Brest (then also called Brest-Litowsk )
- Grodno
- Kobrin (Belarus. Kobryn )
- Prushany
- Slonim
- Sokolka (now in Poland: Sokółka )
- Wolkowysk (Belarus. Waukawysk )
population
According to the first all-Russian census in 1897, the governorate had 1,603,409 inhabitants. Of these, 705,045 were Belarusians, 362,526 Minor Russians (i.e. Ukrainians), 278,542 Jews, 161,662 Poles, 74,143 Russians and 10,284 Germans. The rest were Lithuanians and smaller groups.