The Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which was created on 26 March 1783 by merging Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into re-established Novorossiya Governorate.
Composition
The Viceroyalty was divided into counties known as uyezds. There were around 15 counties.
Former Novorossiysk Governorate
- Poltava Province
- Kremenchuk county (capital)
- Kobelyaki county (previously Novye Sanzhary county)
- Poltava county
- Yelizavetgrad Province
- Yelizavetgrad county
- Olviopol county (previously Yekaterinine county)
- Petrikovka county (previously Kryukov county)
- Nikopol Province (previously Slaviansk Province)
- Krivoy Rog county (previously Ingul county)
- Nikopol county (previously Slaviansk county)
- Novye Kodaki county (previously Saksangan county)
- Kherson Province
- Kazykermen county
- Novopavlovka county
- Kherson county
Former Azov Governorate (II)
- Bakhmut county
- Aleksandrovsk county (New Dnieper fortification line and portion of Kalmius Palatinate)
- Yekaterinine county (Samar Palatinate)
- Marienpol county
- Natalkov county
- Pavlov county (main part of Kalmius Palatinate)
- Taganrog county
- Tor county
- Tsarychan county (Orel and Protovcha palatinates and Donets pikers regiment)
Viceroyalty governors
Governor-General (Viceroy)
Viceroyalty governors
References
See also