Kiev Governorate
Kiev Governorate
Киевская губерния Київська губернія | |
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Location in the Russian Empire before World War I | |
| Country | Russian Empire→ Ukrainian People's Republic→ Ukrainian State→ Ukrainian People's Republic→ Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union |
| Krai | Southwestern (in the Russian Empire) |
| Established | 1802 |
| Abolished | 1925 |
| Capital | Kiev (modern-day Kyiv) |
| Area | |
• Total | 50,957 km2 (19,675 sq mi) |
| Population (1897) | |
• Total | 3,559,229 |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 12.90% |
| • Rural | 87.10% |
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Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1925; part of the Soviet Union since 1922). It included the territory of the right-bank Ukraine and was formed after a division of the Kiev Viceroyalty into Kiev and Little Russia Governorates in 1796. Its capital was in Kiev. By the early 20th century, it consisted of 12 uyezds, 12 cities, 111 miasteczkos and 7344 other settlements. After the October Revolution, it became part of the administrative division of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1923 it was divided into several okrugs and on 6 June 1925 it was abolished by the Soviet administrative reforms.