Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanized: Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.[1]
| Samara Governorate Самарская губерния | |
|---|---|
| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |
| 1850–1928 | |
 Coat of arms
| |
 Location within the Russian Empire | |
| Capital | Samara |
| Population | |
• 1897 | 2,751,336 |
| History | |
• Established | 1850 |
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 |
Samara Governate under the Russian Empire
editAdministrative divisions
editFrom its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:[1]
| No. | Uezd | County town | Coat of Arms of the county town |
Area, Square miles |
Population[2] (1897) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bugulminsky | Bugulma (7 581 pop.) | 10 803,1 | 299 884 | |
| 2 | Buguruslansky | Buguruslan (12 109 pop.) | 17 068,7 | 405 994 | |
| 3 | Buzuluksky | Buzuluk (14 362 pop.) | 22 427,0 | 492 952 | |
| 4 | Nikolayevsky | Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.) | 28 196,9 | 494 736 | |
| 5 | Novouzensky | Novouzensk (13 261 pop.) | 34 585,9 | 417 376 | |
| 6 | Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.) | 13 155,4 | 357 018 | |
| 7 | Stavropolsky | Stavropol (5 969 pop.) | 10 476,5 | 283 376 |
Samara Governorate in the post revolutionary period until abolition (1928)
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Самарская губерния" [Samara Governorate]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St. Petersburg. 1900.
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