Podolia Governorate
| Podolia Governorate Подільська губернія Подольская губерния (Podolskaya guberniya) |
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire, Ukraine | |||||
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| Capital | Kamenets-Podolskiy since 1914 Vinnytsia |
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| • | Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1793 | |||
| • | Abolished | 1 August 1925 | |||
| Area | 42.000 km2(16 sq mi) | ||||
| Political subdivisions | Governorates of the Russian Empire | ||||
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The Podolia Governorate or Government of Podolia, set up after the Second Partition of Poland, comprised a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1793 to 1917, of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921, and of the Ukrainian SSR from 1921 to 1925.
The Government of Podolia was established right after the Second Partition of Poland in place of the former Podole and Bracław Voivodeships in 1793.
The Podolian Governorate occupied the southwestern frontier of the former Russian empire, bordering Austria-Hungary, and had an area of about 42,000 km². The administrative centre was Kamenets-Podolskiy until 1914 when it moved to Vinnytsia.
Podolia Governorate was one of the three governorates of the Southwestern Krai administration. In 1917 it was recognized by the Russian Provisional Government to be governed by the General Secretariat of Ukraine as the representative of the Russian Provisional Government in the region.
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