Tula Governorate
| Tula Governorate Тульская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Russian Empire (1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1929) | |||||||||
| 1796–1929 | |||||||||
Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Tula | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 30,960.3 km2 (11,953.8 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,419,456 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1929 | ||||||||
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Tula Governorate (Russian: Тульская губерния, romanized: Tul'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. The governate existed from 1796 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Tula. It was divided into 12 districts. The main towns were Alexin, Bogoroditsk, Byelev, Chern, Epifan, Efremov, Kashira, Krapivna, Novosil, Odoyev, Tula, and Venev.