Kiev Governorate (1708–1775)
| Kiev Governorate Кіевская губернія |
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| Governorate of Russian Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Kiev | ||||
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| • | Established | December 18 (29) 1708 | |||
| • | Disestablished | November 7, 1764 | |||
| Political subdivisions | provinces: 4 lots: 5 (until 1719) |
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Kiev Governorate (pre-reform Russian: Кіевская губернія), or the Government of Kiev, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and then the Russian Empire. The government was established in December 1708 as one of the eight guberniyas first created during the Peter the Great reform.
The Government of Kiev in the 18th century has greatly differed from the Government of Kiev in the 19th century. When one was exclusively located on the left banks of Dnieper, the other one happened to be located across the river. In territorial reform of Catherine the Great changed the name for government to the Russian vice royalty in 1781. The first Government of Kiev was established on the most part of the Cossack Hetmanate including a vast territory to east of the Hetmanate as well, while the Zaporizhian Sich was in a condominium of the Russian Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1727 it was split into Government of Kiev and Government of Belgorod, becoming a separate province under government of Hetman Apostol. In 1764 there was another division when the government of Little Russia and New Russia were established. In 1781 the governments of Kiev and Little Russia were reorganized into vice-royalties of Kiev, Novhorod-Siversky, and Chernihiv soon after the partition of Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). In 1796 the vice-royalty of Kiev was renamed back into the Government of Kiev. In 1917 the Government of Kiev was included into the Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian State. With the establishment of the Soviet power in 1919, the government became part of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1923 the Government of Kiev was dissolved and its territory split into several okruha (districts) in the course of the Soviet-wide administrative reform.
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