Oryol Governorate
Oryol Governorate (Russian: Орловская губерния, romanized: Orlovskaya guberniya), or the Government of Oryol, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol.
| Oryol Governorate Орловская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Russian Empire (1778/1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||
| 1778/1796–1928 | |||||||||
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.svg.png.webp) Oryol Governorate within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Oryol | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 46,726.2 km2 (18,041.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
| 2,033,798 | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
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• Established | 1778/1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1928 | ||||||||
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Administrative division
Oryol Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Bolkhovsky Uyezd (Bolkhov)
- Bryansky Uyezd (Bryansk)
- Dmitrovsky Uyezd (Dmitrovsk)
- Yeletsky Uyezd (Yelets)
- Karachevsky Uyezd (Karachev)
- Kromskoy Uyezd (Kromy)
- Livensky Uyezd (Livny)
- Maloarkhangelsky Uyezd (Maloarkhangelsk)
- Mtsensky Uyezd (Mtsensk)
- Orlovsky Uyezd (Oryol)
- Sevsky Uyezd (Sevsk)
- Trubchevsky Uyezd (Trubchevsk)
References
- "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).
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