Tver Governorate

Coat of arms of the Tver Governorate (1856)

The Tver Governorate ( Russian : Тверская губерния / Tverskaja 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 Tver . In the north it bordered the governorates of Novgorod , Yaroslavl , Vladimir , Moscow , Smolensk and Pskov in a clockwise direction .

history

Historical map of the Tver Governorate from 1841

The Tver Governorate was formed in 1796 from the Tver Lieutenancy. The Tver 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 1,769,135 inhabitants (27 / km²) on 56,837 square meters (= 64,686 km²). The population consisted of over 92% Russians, 6% Karelians and smaller groups of Estonians, Poles, Jews and Germans. Approx. 9% lived in cities. The capital Tver had 53,544 inhabitants.

In 1926 the governorate covered 63,426 km² with 2,242,350 inhabitants (35 / km²).

structure

Around 1900 there were 13 Ujesde :

• Beschezk
• Kaljasin (since 1803, dissolved in 1922)
• Kashin (dissolved in 1927)
• Korcheva (since 1803, dissolved in 1922; city was on the Volga between Konakowo and Dubna , flooded by the Ivankowo reservoir in the 1930s )
• Nowotorschski (administrative center of Torzhok , name derived from the old place names Nowy Torg )
• Ostashkov
• Rzhev
• Stariza (dissolved in 1924)
• Subzow (dissolved in 1922)
• Tver
• Vesyegonsk (since 1803, 1921–1923 to the Rybinsk Governorate )
• Vyshny Volochok

Later formed Ujesde:

• Kimry (since 1918)
• Krasny Cholm (since 1919, 1921–1923 to the Rybinsk Governorate, dissolved in 1924)

Web links

• Language groups 1897 (Russian)
• Administrative districts 1897 (Russian)
• Entry in Meyers (1905)
• 1926 census result (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Логос # 1 2005 (46). философско-литературный журнал ЛОГОС, accessed September 15, 2017 (Russian, philosophical and literary journal LOGOS - Logos # 1 2005 (46) ). 
2. ↑ 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 ). 
3. ↑ Постановление ВЦИК от 01/14/1929 «Об образовании на территории Р. С. Ф. С. Р. административно-территориальных объединений краевого и областного значения »