Caucasus Krai (russian: Кавказский край) was an administrative division (a ''

krai A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. Etymologically, the word is relate ...

'') of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. It was established in 1844. From that time until 1882 the head of the region (krai) was Viceroy-namestnik (russian: наместник), during 1882–1905 '' glavnoupravlyayushchiy'' or '' glavnonachalstvuyushchy'' (russian: главноуправляющий or главноначальствующий), and in 1905–1917 again ''

namestnik A viceroy () is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix ''vice-'', meaning "in the place of" and the French word ''roy'', meaning "k ...

''.

References

* Национальные окраины Российской империи: становление и развитие системы управления. М., 1998. * Кавказский край. Кутаисское генерал-губернаторство. Военно-статистическое обозрение Российской империи, т. 16, ч. 5, Генеральный штаб, 1858 г. Krais of the Russian Empire States and territories established in 1844 1844 establishments in the Russian Empire {{Russia-hist-stub