Chernigov Governorate
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| Chernigov Governorate Черниговская губернія | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Russian Empire (1802–1917), and Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918) | |||||||||
| 1802–1918 | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
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.svg) Chernigov Governorate within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Chernigov | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• (1897) | 52,396 km2 (20,230 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• (1897) | 2298000 | ||||||||
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| History | |||||||||
• Established | 27 February 1802 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 August 1918 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | uezds: 15 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Chernihiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast Bryansk Oblast | ||||||||
The Chernigov Governorate (Russian: Черниговская губерния; translit.: Chernigovskaya guberniya; Ukrainian: Чернігівська губернія, romanized: Chernihivska huberniia), also known as the Government of Chernigov, was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire, which was officially created in 1802 from the Malorossiya Governorate with an administrative centre of Chernihiv. The Little Russian Governorate was transformed into the General Government of Little Russia and consisted of Chernigov Governorate, Poltava Governorate, and later Kharkov Governorate.
Chernigov Governorate borders are roughly consistent with the modern Chernihiv Oblast, but also included a large section of Sumy Oblast and smaller sections of the Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine, in addition to most of the Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
Administrative division
The governorate consisted of 15 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets):
- Borznyansky Uyezd (Borzna)
- Glukhovsky Uyezd (Glukhov/Hlukhiv)
- Gorodnyansky Uyezd (Gorodnya/Horodnia)
- Kozeletsky Uyezd (Kozelets)
- Konotopsky Uyezd (Konotop)
- Krolevetsky Uyezd (Krolevets)
- Mglinsky Uyezd (Mglin)
- Nezhinsky Uyezd (Nezhin/Nizhyn)
- Novgorod-Seversky Uyezd (Novgorod-Seversky/Novhorod-Siverskyi)
- Novozybkovsky Uyezd (Novozybkov)
- Ostyorsky Uyezd (Ostyor/Oster)
- Sosnitsky Uyezd (Sosnitsa/Sosnytsia)
- Starodubsky Uyezd (Starodub)
- Surazhsky Uyezd (Surazh)
- Chernigovsky Uyezd (Chernigov/Chernihiv)[1]
The Chernigov Governorate covered a total area of 52,396 km², and had a population of 2,298,000, according to the 1897 Russian Empire census. In 1914, the population was 2,340,000. In 1918 it became part of Ukraine and transformed into Chernihiv Governorate.
Principal cities
- Russian Census of 1897
- Nezhin – 32,113 (Ukrainian – 21,733, Jewish – 7,578, Russian – 2,366)
- Chernigov – 27,716 (Ukrainian – 10,085, Jewish – 8,780, Russian – 7,985)
- Konotop – 18,770 (Ukrainian – 10,290, Jewish – 4,415, Russian – 3,565)
- Novozybkov – 15,362 (Russian – 11,055, Jewish – 3,787, Belorussian – 303)
- Glukhov – 14,828 (Ukrainian – 8,621, Jewish – 3,837, Russian – 2,217)
- Borzna – 12,526 (Ukrainian – 10,846, Jewish – 1,515, Russian – 109)
- Starodub – 12,381 (Russian – 7,255, Jewish – 4,897, Ukrainian – 133)
- Krolevets – 10,384 (Ukrainian – 8,328, Jewish – 1,815, Russian – 209)
- Berezna – 9,922 (Ukrainian – 8,349, Jewish – 1,354, Russian – 144)
- Novgorod-Seversky – 9,182 (Ukrainian – 4,884, Jewish – 2,941, Russian – 1,296)
- Mglin – 7,640 (Russian – 4,840, Jewish – 2,675, Belorussian – 75)
- Sosnytsia – 7,087 (Ukrainian – 5,068, Jewish – 1,840, Russian – 158)
- Korop – 6,262 (Ukrainian – 5,309, Jewish – 865, Russian – 77)
- Oster – 5,370 (Ukrainian – 3,229, Jewish – 1,596, Russian – 399)
- Kozelets – 5,141 (Ukrainian – 2,834, Jewish – 1,632, Russian – 468)
- Pogar – 4,965 (Russian – 3,800, Jewish – 1,159, Germans – 6)
- Gorodnya – 4,310 (Ukrainian – 2,349, Jewish – 1,248, Russian – 604)
- Surazh – 4,006 (Jewish – 2,400, Belorussian – 978, Russian – 559)
- Novoye Mesto – 1,488 (Russian – 1,421, Jewish – 67)
Language
- By the Imperial census of 1897.[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
| Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
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| Ukrainian | 1,526,072 | 66.41 | 747,721 | 778,351 |
| Russian | 495,963 | 21.58 | 236,842 | 259,121 |
| Belarusian | 151,465 | 6.59 | 73,691 | 77,774 |
| Yiddish | 113,787 | 4.95 | 54,724 | 59,063 |
| German | 5,306 | 0.23 | 2,664 | 2,642 |
| Polish | 3,302 | 0.14 | 1,775 | 1,527 |
| Persons that didn't name their native language |
74 | >0.01 | 32 | 42 |
| Other[3] | 1,885 | >0.01 | 1,247 | 638 |
| Total | 2,297,854 | 100 | 1,118,696 | 1,179,158 |
See also
References and notes
- ^ Генеральная карта Черниговской губерніи Съ показаніемъ почтовыхъ и большихъ проъзжихъ дорогъ, станціи и разстоянія между оными верстъ – Ст. Петербургъ, 1829. (in Russian) (Page title read as: "General map of the Chernihiv province. St. Petersburg, 1829.")
- ^ Language Statistics of 1897 Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000
External links
- Chernigov Guberniya – Article in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)
- Chernigov Governorate – Historical coat of arms (in Ukrainian and English)
- Chernihiv gubernia – Article in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Articles with Russian-language sources (ru)
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- Chernigov Governorate
- Governorates of Ukraine
- Governorates of the Russian Empire
- Political history of Ukraine
- 1802 establishments in the Russian Empire
- 1918 disestablishments in Russia
- History of Chernihiv Oblast
- History of Sumy Oblast
- History of Bryansk Oblast