Kiev Viceroyalty
| Kiev Viceroyalty Киевское наместничество | |||||||||||||
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| Viceroyalty of Russian Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1781–1796 | |||||||||||||
Kiev Viceroyalty map from 1792 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Kiev | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 7 November 1781 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 30 November 1796 | ||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | uyezds: 11 okrugs: 10 (from 1791) | ||||||||||||
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Kiev Viceroyalty (Russian: Киевское наместничество, romanized: Kiyevskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1781–1796. It was created in the process of Catherine's reforms initiated by edict of November 7, 1775.