Siberia Governorate

58°11′N 68°16′E / 58.183°N 68.267°E / 58.183; 68.267

Siberia Governorate Сибирская губерния (Russian)
Governorate of Russian Empire
1708–1782
Coat of arms
Governorate subdivision of Russian Empire in 1682-1762. Siberia Governorate is shown as number 8.
Capital	Tobolsk
History
• Established	December 29 [O.S. December 18] 1708
• Disestablished	January 30 [O.S. January 19] 1782
Political subdivisions	three provinces
Succeeded by Tobolsk Viceroyalty Kolyvan Viceroyalty Irkutsk Governorate

Siberia Governorate (Russian: Сибирская губерния, romanized: Sibirskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, which existed from 1708 until 1782. Its seat was in Tobolsk (initially spelt as Tobolesk). The governorate was located in the east of Russian Empire and bordered China in the south, Kazan Governorate in the southwest, and Archangelgorod Governorate in the northwest. In the north and the east, the governorate was limited by the seas of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. In terms of area, Siberia Governorate was by far the biggest of all the governorates, as it included areas in the Urals, Siberia, and the Russian Far East some of which were not yet even settled by Russians at the time.