Kherson Governorate

Kherson Governorate Херсонская губерния
Governorate
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Country	Russian Empire
Established	1803
Abolished	1920
Capital	Kherson
Area
• Total	71,936 km2 (27,775 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	2,733,612
• Density	38/km2 (98/sq mi)
• Urban	28.86%
• Rural	71.14%

Kherson Governorate,^[a] known until 1803 as Nikolayev Governorate,^[b] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kherson. It encompassed 71,936 square kilometres (27,775 sq mi) in area and had a population of 2,733,612 inhabitants. At the time of the census in 1897, it bordered Podolia Governorate to the northwest, Kiev Governorate to the north, Poltava Governorate to the northeast, Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, Taurida Governorate to the southeast, Black Sea to the south, and Bessarabia Governorate to the west. It roughly corresponds to what is now most of Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad and Odesa Oblasts in Ukraine and some parts of Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts.

The economy of the governorate was mainly based on agriculture. During the grain harvest, thousands of agricultural laborers from the parts of the Empire found work in the area. The industrial part of the economy, consisting primarily of flour milling, distilling, metalworking industry, iron mining, beet-sugar processing, and brick industry, was underdeveloped.

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