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Poltava Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of left-bank Ukraine and was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate, which was split between Chernigov and Poltava Governorates with its capital in Poltava.
Feb 22, 2019 · German farmers began arriving in the Russian province of Poltava (Poltawa) in the mid-1700s. It would be another 50 years before larger numbers arrived. In 1808, at the invitation of Tsar Alexander II, Germans with experience in weaving, knitting and brick making were invited to settle the cities of Poltava, Kremenchug and Kostyantynohrad.
The city played a key role in the Russian colonization policy of Ukraine and their striving for the shores of Black Seas as regional administrative center of the early Novorossiya Governorate and Yekaterinoslav Vice-regency (Namestnichestvo). [11]
Poltava Governorate [lower-alpha 1] was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of left-bank Ukraine and was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate, which was split between Chernigov and Poltava Governorates with its capital in Poltava.
Under Russian rule it was the capital of New Russia gubernia in 1765–83 and the administrative center of Katerynoslav vicegerency in 1784–9; thereafter it was a county center from 1802 to 1920 in Poltava gubernia.
Kremenchuk, city, central Ukraine. The city lies along the Dnieper River where it is crossed by the Kharkiv-Kirovohrad railway. Founded in 1571 as a fortress, Kremenchuk acquired city status in 1765. In the 20th century the city and the Kryukiv district across the river developed important.
Kremenchuk or Kremenchug is a city located on the Dnieper River in the central part of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kremenchuk district of the Poltava region. Kremenchuk agglomeration is among the top ten in Ukraine with a population of about half a million people.
