Kiev Governorate

50°27′00″N 30°31′25″E / 50.4500°N 30.5236°E / 50.4500; 30.5236

Kiev Governorate Киевская губерния
Governorate
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Country	Russian Empire
Krai	Southwestern
Established	1802
Abolished	1925
Capital	Kiev
Area
• Total	50,957 km2 (19,675 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	3,559,229
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
• Urban	12.90%
• Rural	87.10%

Kiev Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It included the territory of the right-bank Ukraine and was formed after a division of the Kiev Viceroyalty into Kiev and Little Russia Governorates in 1796. Its capital was in Kiev. By the early 20th century, it consisted of 12 uyezds, 12 cities, 111 miasteczkos and 7344 other settlements. After the October Revolution, it became part of the administrative division of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1923 it was divided into several okrugs and on 6 June 1925 it was abolished by the Soviet administrative reforms.^[1][2]

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