Southwestern Krai (russian: Юго-западный край, Yugo-zapadny kray), also known as Kiev General Governorate or Kiev, Podolia, and Volhynia General Governorate ( rus, Киевское, Подольское и Волынское генерал-губернаторство, Kievskoye, Podol'skoye i Volynskoye general-gubernatorstvo) was an administrative-territorial and political subdivision (a krai) of the Russian Empire in 1832–1914.Shandra, V.
Kiev General-Governorate (КИЇВСЬКЕ ГЕНЕРАЛ-ГУБЕРНАТОРСТВО)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2007. It has a special status established for the gradual political and economical integration and assimilation of the non-Russian (Jewish, Polish, Tatar Ukrainian) population of right-bank Ukraine within the Russian Empire.

History

The Southwestern Krai or the Governor General of Kiev, Podolia and Volhynia consisting of three ''gubernias'', the Volhynia, the Podolia and the Kiev Governorate, was supposedly incepted on January 22, 1832 when Vasily Levashov, was appointed the Military Governor of Kiev and the General Governor of Podolia and Volhynia. However a position of Kiev Military Governor existed since 1796. Separately there existed the Governor General of Little Russia and the Governor General of New Russia and Bessarabia. From 1881 the territory of the Governorate General was ''de facto'' expanded to five Gubernias as Governor General Alexander Drenteln was also appointed the temporary Governor General of Chernigov and

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governorates (former governorates of the Governor General of Little Russia). In 1889 the Governorate General original jurisdiction of only three gubernias was restored. It existed in this form until 1915 when the territorial unit was abolished. Fyodor Trepov was the last General Governor of Kiev. In 1912 the Kholm Governorate, a former governorate of the

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, was detached from it, and attached to the Kiev General Governorate.

List of General Governors and Military Governors

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* January 19, 1863 - January 19, 1865 Nicholas Annenkov * January 19, 1865 - January 16, 1869 Aleksandr Bezak * January 16, 1869 - April 16, 1878 Prince Aleksandr Dondukov-Korsakov * April 16, 1878 - January 13, 1881 Mikhail Chertkov * January 13, 1881 - July 15, 1888 Alexander Drenteln * August 12, 1889 - December 7, 1897 Count

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* October 19, 1905 - December 18, 1908 Vladimir Sukhomlinov * December 18, 1908 - 1914 Fyodor Trepov

References

External links

* Shandra, V.
Kiev General-Governorate (КИЇВСЬКЕ ГЕНЕРАЛ-ГУБЕРНАТОРСТВО)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2007. {{coord missing, Russia Krais of the Russian Empire States and territories established in 1832 States and territories disestablished in 1915 1830s establishments in the Russian Empire Governorates-General of the Russian Empire

History

List of General Governors and Military Governors

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