Tobolsk Governorate
| Tobolsk Governorate | |||||||||||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Russian Republic and RSFSR (1917–1920) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1796–1920 | |||||||||||||||||
Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Tobolsk (1796–1919) Tyumen (1919–1920) | ||||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||||
• 1916 | 1,385,000 km2 (535,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||
• 1897 | 1,433,043 | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
• Established | 1796 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1920 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia | ||||||||||||||||
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Tobolsk Governorate (Russian: Тобольская губерния, romanized: Tobol'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic and Russian SFSR located in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. It existed from 1796 to 1920; its seat was in the city of Tobolsk, and from 1919 to 1920, in the city of Tyumen.