The Black Sea Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the

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, established in 1896 on the territory of the of the

Kuban Oblast The Kuban Oblast was a province (''oblast'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of the Kuban and Circassia regions. It was created in 1860 out of Kuban Cossack territories that had once been part of ...

. The administrative center of the governorate was the Black Sea port of

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. In 1905, the population of the governorate was approximately 70,000 and its area was , making it the smallest Russian governorate by both measures.
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'', vol. 4. 1907.) The governorate ceased to exist when the

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was established on its territory in the spring of 1918—later the governorate was incorporated into the

Kuban-Black Sea Oblast Kuban Black Sea Oblast (russian: Куба́но-Черномо́рская о́бласть) was an administrative division (an ''oblast'') of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which existed in 1920–1924. When Soviet power was re ...

of the

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in March 1920.

Administrative divisions

The districts (''

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s'') of the Black Sea Governorate in 1917 were as follows:

Demographics

Russian Empire census (1897)

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, the Black Sea Governorate had a population of 57,478, including 34,776 men and 22,702 women. The plurality of the population indicated

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to be their mother tongue, with significant

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, and

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speaking minorities.

Caucasian Calendar (1917)

According to the 1917 publication of the ''Caucasian Calendar'', the Black Sea Governorate had 178,306 residents in 1916, including 104,488 men and 73,818 women, 108,893 of whom were the permanent population, and 69,413 were temporary residents:

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References

Bibliography

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