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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. Administrative division.
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]
This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive).
English NameRussian NameRussian TransliteratedEstablished (julian Cal.)Августовская г.Avgustovskaya g.1837Архангелогородская г.Arkhangelogorodskaya g.1708-12-29 [1]Архангельская г.Arkhangelskaya g.1784 [1]Астраханская г.Astrakhanskaya g.1717Poltava 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.
Article History. Russian: Kremenchug. 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.
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KREMENCHUG, Poltava district, in Ukraine. The earliest information on Jewish settlement in Kremenchug dates from 1782; 454 Jews were registered as poll-tax payers in the district of Kremenchug in 1801.
Russian empire with a large number of Ukrainian (in the 1897 census, ‘Little Russian’) speakers (that is, the provinces of Poltava, Kyiv, Katerynoslav, Kharkiv, Podillia, Kherson, Volynia, Chernihiv and Tavriia). At its disposal, the U.N.R. had units made up of self-organized peasants known as Free Cossacks. Military defeat at the hand of the
