Priamurye Governorate-General

Priamurye Governorate-General (Russian: Приамурское генерал-губернаторство, romanized: Priamurskoye general-gubernatorstvo), also referred to as the Priamur or the Trans-Amurian Territory, was a colony of the Russian Empire located in the Russian Far East that existed from 1884 until the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was established as part of an effort to prevent the Qing dynasty from reclaiming territories seized by unequal treaty and facilitate Russian settler-colonialism. It had a diverse population, including Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Buryats and several other indigenous peoples.

After reaching the Pacific Ocean's eastern coast in the 17th century, Russia took control of Outer Manchuria with the 1860 Convention of Peking. In the two decades between the Convention of Peking and the establishment of the Governorate-General Russia strengthened its military and police presence in the region, relying on local Koreans to secure stability through a sedentary agrarian population. Convicts from metropolitan Russia and Trans-Siberian Railway workers additionally served as a sedentary population of ethnic Russians. The economy was primarily based on Asian labour, including Japanese fishermen and Sino-Korean farmers and labourers.