Black Sea Governorate
The Black Sea Governorate ( Russian Черномо́рская губе́рния Tschernomorskaja gubernija ) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR from 1896 to 1920. It belonged to the General Governorate of the Caucasus and took up a strip of coast on the Black Sea .
The governorate was founded on May 23rd . / June 4, 1896 greg. formed from the previous territory of the Black Sea Okrug of Kuban Oblast . The capital was Novorossiysk . The governorate bordered on Kuban Oblast and in the southeast on the governorate of Kutais . It was divided into three okrug when it was founded:
In the first Russian census of 1897, a population of 57,478 was determined in an area of 6,455 square meters (7,346 km²). The population density of the predominantly mountainous area was relatively low at around 8 inhabitants / km², even according to Russian terms. It was the smallest of the Russian governorates in terms of both population and area.
Of the 57,478 inhabitants determined in 1897, 24,635 were Russians , there were also smaller groups (with a population share of 2% or more ) of Ukrainians , Armenians , Greeks , Circassians and Czechs .
Over the next 20 years, the number of inhabitants rose to around 3.5 times and exceeded 200,000 in 1917.
In the course of the civil war , the governorate actually became the Black Sea Soviet Republic in March 1918 as a result of the formation of the Black Sea Soviet Republic (which subsequently became the Kuban Black Sea Soviet Republic and then the North Caucasian Soviet Republic , which existed until January 1919) and formally final on March 29th Disbanded in 1920 when its territory of the new Kuban Black Sea Oblast was added to the RSFSR. On May 11, 1920, the area of the former governorate within the oblast was again designated as the Black Sea Okrug (as it was until 1896), which survived several administrative changes until its final dissolution on July 30, 1930.
Web links
- Language groups of the governorate 1897 (Russian)
- Administrative districts of the governorate (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chernomorskaya gubernija . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 38 a [76]: Человек – Чугуевский полк. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1903, p. 648–658 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF ).
- ↑ Сергей Тархов: Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII – XX в. In: Логос # 1 2005 (46) , pp. 71-72 ( ruthenia.ru PDF, Russian).