Olonets Governorate

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Olonets Governorate Олонецкая губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR
1801–1922
Coat of arms
Olonets Governorate within the Russian Empire
Capital	Petrozavodsk
Area
• (1897)	2,701.65 km2 (1,043.11 sq mi)
Population
• (1897)	364,156
History
• Established	September 21 1801
• Disestablished	September 18 1922
Political subdivisions	uezds: 7 (1922), 4
Preceded by Succeeded by Novgorod Governorate Arkhangel Governorate Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Olonets Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded west by Finland, north and east by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and south by Novgorod and Saint Petersburg. The area was 57,422 km², of which 6,794 km² were covered by lakes.^[1]

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