Samara Governorate

Samara Governorate
Самарская губерния
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 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 Governate under the Russian Empire

Administrative divisions

From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:^[1]

No.	Uezd	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)

References

^ ^a ^b "Самарская губерния" [Samara Governorate]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St. Petersburg. 1900.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. The actual population in the provinces, districts, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland)". Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics. 10 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

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[:0-1] "Самарская губерния" [Samara Governorate]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St. Petersburg. 1900.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[Demoscope_Samara-2] "The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. The actual population in the provinces, districts, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland)". Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics. 10 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

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v t e Subdivisions of the Russian Empire
Governorates (List)	Azov¹ +Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod Astrakhan Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Belarus Caucasus Chernigov Grodno Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Lithuania Little Russia (1764) Little Russia (1796) Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod-Seversky Novgorod Novorossiya Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Siberia Simbirsk Sloboda Ukraine Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynia Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk
Oblasts	Amur Belostok Bessarabia Don Host Transbaikal Kamchatka Caspian Kwantung Orenburg Kirghiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopol Turgay Ural Yakutsk
Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Akmolinsk Siberian Kirghiz Semipalatinsk
Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana
Caucasus Viceroyalty	Baku (Governorate) Black Sea Derbent Elizavetpol Erivan Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Kutaisi Shemakha Tiflis Armenian Batum Dagestan Imeretia Kars Kuban Terek Sukhumi Zakatal Baku (Gradonachalstvo)
Baltic Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia
Governorates of Finland	Abo-Byorneborg Vaza Vyborg Kuopio Nyuland Sankt-Mikhel Tavastgus Uleaborg
Governorates of Poland	Avgustov Warsaw Kalish Keltsy Krakov Lomzha Lyublin Mazovia Petrokov Plotsk Podlyashye Radom Sandomir Sedlets Suvalki
Governorates of Galicia and Bukovina	Lvov Peremyshl Tarnopol Chernovtsy
Dependencies	Bukey Horde Emirate of Bukhara Khanate of Kokand Russian America Uryankhay Krai² Khanate of Khiva Zeravshan Okrug*
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (+) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.