Orenburg Governorate
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| Orenburg Governorate Оренбургская губерния (Russian) | |||||||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1744–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||||||
| 1744–1928 | |||||||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• | 189,727.4 km2 (73,254.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| 1,600,145 | |||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 15 March 1744 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 | ||||||||||||
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Orenburg Governorate (Russian: Оренбургская губерния, romanized: Orenburgskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (Governorate) of the Russian Empire. Its capital in 1797–1802 and 1865–1928 was Orenburg, and Ufa in 1802–1865.
The governorate was created in 1744 from the lands annexed from Siberian and Astrakhan Governorates. In 1782, the governorate, along with Chelyabinsky Uyezd of Perm Viceroyalty were transformed into Ufa Viceroyalty, which was divided into Ufa and Orenburg Oblasts. In 1796, Ufa Viceroyalty was renamed Orenburg Governorate, and in 1865 it was split in two—a smaller Orenburg Governorate, and Ufa Governorate.
In 1919, Chelyabinsk Governorate was split off from Orenburg Governorate, and in 1928 the governorate was merged into a newly created Middle Volga Oblast.
Administrative division
[edit]After the creation of Ufa Governorate in 1865, Orenburg Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Verkhneuralsky Uyezd (Verkhneuralsk)
- Orenburgsky Uyezd (Orenburg)
- Orsky Uyezd (Orsk)
- Troitsky Uyezd (Troitsk)
- Chelyabinsky Uyezd (Chelyabinsk)
Demographics
[edit]| Language | Native speakers | Percentage |
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| Russian | 1,126,040 | 70.4% |
| Bashkir | 254,561 | 15.9% |
| Tatar | 92,926 | 5.8% |
| Ukrainian | 41,541 | 2.6% |
| Mordvin | 38,403 | 2.4% |
| Teptyar | 16,877 | 1.1% |
| German | 5,457 | 0.3% |
| Chuvash | 5,064 | 0.3% |
| Kyrgyz-Kazakh | 4,971 | 0.3% |
| Mishar | 4,898 | 0.3% |
| Other languages | 9.407 | 0.6% |
| Total | 1,600,145 | 100.00 |
Notable people
[edit]- Nikolay Anisimov (1877–1931), major general of the White Army
- Gury Marchuk, (1925–2013) Soviet scientist
- Maurice Tillet, (1903–1954) Russian-French professional wrestler
References
[edit]- ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).
- ^ Мовний склад населення повітів Рос. імперії за переписом 1897 року [Linguistic composition of the population of the counties of the Russian Empire according to the 1897 census]. www.datatowel.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897. Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей" [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
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