Governorates-General (russian: генерал-губернаторство; ''general-gubernatorstvo'') were a type of administrative-territorial division in the

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from 1775–1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and

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s. The term was sometimes used to refer to

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 ...

s or military guberniyas. The Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

Description

Governorates-General were governed by

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, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General

* Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg * Governorate-General of Moscow * Governorate-General of Azov * Belorussian Governorate-General (1775–1856) * Siberian Governorate-General (1802–1822) ** East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1884), split *** Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 – June 9, 1880) (

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and

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, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "

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" turning

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into city-port. *** Amur Governorate-General (1887–1917) *** Governorate-General of Irkutsk (1887–1917) ** West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1882) * Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794–1912) * Governorate-General of Kiev (1832–1912), also known as the

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(

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) *

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* Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802–1856) * Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802–1873) *

Governorate-General of Orenburg A governorate is an administrative division of a state. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or provinces, the term ''governorate'' is often used in translation from ...

(1851–1881) *

General Government of Galicia and Bukovina The General Government of Galicia and Bukovina (russian: Галицийское генерал-губернаторство) was a temporary Imperial Russian military administration of eastern parts of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria captu ...

* Baltic General Governorate * Vistula Krai, later as

Warsaw Governorate-General Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

(1874–1917) *

Russian Turkestan Russian Turkestan (russian: Русский Туркестан, Russkiy Turkestan) was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian territories, and was administered as a Krai or Governor-Generalship. It comprised the ...

Governor-Generalship of the Steppes Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, or General Government of the Steppes (Степное генерал-губернаторство in Russian), was a portion of Imperial Russian Central Asia which included both much of modern Eastern and Cent ...

Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917) The Caucasus Viceroyalty (russian: Кавка́зское наме́стничество, translit=Kavkázskoye naméstnichestvo) was the Russian Empire's administrative and political authority in the Caucasus region exercised through the offices ...

Grand Duchy of Finland The Grand Duchy of Finland ( fi, Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta; sv, Storfurstendömet Finland; russian: Великое княжество Финляндское, , all of which literally translate as Grand Principality of Finland) was the predecessor ...

, also known as the General Government of Finland

Description

List of Governorates-General

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