Kaluga Governorate
The Kaluga Governorate ( Russian Калужская губерния / Kalushskaja gubernija) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR , located in the center of European Russia. It existed from 1796 to 1929. The capital was Kaluga . The government bordered on the north by the government of Moscow , on the east by the province of Tula , to the south by the Oryol Governorate and the west by the province of Smolensk .
history
The governorate was formed in 1796 from the Kaluga governor . The Kaluga Governorate existed until 1929 as part of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union . After the dissolution, its territory was added to the new administrative units Western Oblast and Moscow Oblast .
scope
The first Russian census in 1897 counted 1,132,843 inhabitants (36.6 / km²) on 27,177 square meters (= 30,929 km²). The population consisted of over 99% Russians and about 8% lived in cities. The capital Kaluga had 49,513 inhabitants.
In 1926 the governorate covered 25,860 km² with 1,151,591 inhabitants (44.5 / km²).
structure
Since 1802 there have been 11 Ujesde :
- Borovsk (dissolved in 1924)
- Schisdra (1920 to the Bryansk Governorate )
- Kaluga
- Koselsk (dissolved in 1927)
- Lichwin
- Malojaroslavets
- Medyn (dissolved in 1927)
- Meshchovsk (dissolved in 1927)
- Mosalsk
- Peremyschl (dissolved in 1924)
- Tarussa (dissolved in 1927)
The Ujesde had been divided into Wolosti since 1861 . These were dissolved again in the 1920s.
1921 Ujesd was Spas-Demensk and 1927 Ujesde Mjatlewo and Sukhinichi formed. In 1922 the Ujesd Juchnow was assigned by the Smolensk Governorate (dissolved in 1927).
Web links
- Language groups of the governorate 1897 (Russian)
- Administrative districts of the governorate (Russian)
- Entry in Meyers (1905)
- 1926 census result (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Логос # 1 2005 (46). философско-литературный журнал ЛОГОС, accessed September 15, 2017 (Russian, philosophical and literary journal LOGOS - Logos # 1 2005 (46) ).
- ↑ Sergey Tarkhov: Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII — XX вв. (PDF; 206 kB) p. 77f , accessed on September 15, 2017 (Russian, changes in the administrative-territorial division of Russia in the 18th to 20th centuries ).