Lublin Governorate

Lublin Governorate Люблинская губерния Gubernia lubelska
Governorate of Russian Empire
1837–1915
Coat of arms
Location within the Russian Empire
Capital	Lyublin
Area
•	16,831.3 km2 (6,498.6 sq mi)
Population
• 1897	1,160,662
History
History
• Established	1837
• Disestablished	1915
Preceded by Succeeded by Lublin Voivodeship 1912: Kholm Governorate 1915: Government General of Warsaw

Lublin Governorate (Russian: Люблинская губерния, Polish: Gubernia lubelska) was an administrative unit (governorate) of Congress Poland.

Coat of Arms of Lublin gubernia (Russian empire)

History

The Lublin Governorate was created in 1837 from the Lublin Voivodeship, and had the same borders and capital (Lublin) as the voivodeship.

Its lower levels of administration were also mostly unchanged, although renamed from obwóds to powiats. There were ten of those units named after their capital cities: biłgorajski, chełmski, hrubieszowski, janowski, krasnystawski, lubartowski, lubelski, puławski (from 1842: nowoaleksandryjski), tomaszowski and zamojski.

Reform of 1844 merged the governorate with Podlasie Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes (although Podlasie Governorate was renamed to Siedlce Governorate). In 1912 some of the territories of the governorate were split off into the newly created Kholm Governorate.

Language

• By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Language	Number	percentage (%)	males	females
Polish	729 529	62.85	360 700	368 829
Ukrainian	196 476	16.92	99 665	96 811
Yiddish	155 398	13.38	74 985	80 413
Russian	47 912	4.12	36 888	11 024
German	25 972	2.23	12 901	13 071
Estonian	2 197	0.18	2 197	0
Other	3 052	0.26	2 526	526
Persons that didn't name their native language	126	>0.01	99	27
Total	1 160 662	100	589 961	570 701