Oryol Governorate
| Oryol Governorate Орловская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1778/1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||
| 1778/1796–1928 | |||||||||
Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Oryol | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 46,726.2 km2 (18,041.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 2,033,798 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1778/1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1928 | ||||||||
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Oryol Governorate (Russian: Орловская губерния, romanized: Orlovskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol.