Saint Petersburg Governorate
Governorate
Native nameСанкт-Петербургская губерния
CountryRussian Empire
Established1708
Abolished1927
Capital
Area total44,613 km²
Population as of1897
Population total2,112,033
Population urban67.32%
Population rural32.68%

Saint Petersburg Governorate[a] was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of 44,613 square kilometres (17,225 sq mi) of area and 2,112,033 inhabitants. It was bordered by Estonian and Livonian Governorates to the west, Pskov Governorate to the south, Novgorod Governorate to the east, Olonets Governorate to the northeast, and Vyborg Governorate of the Grand Duchy of Finland to the north. The governorate covered most of the areas of modern Leningrad Oblast and Ida-Viru, Jõgeva, Tartu, Põlva, and Võru counties of Estonia.

Establishment

Ingermanland Governorate (Ингерманла́ндская губе́рния, Ingermanlandskaya guberniya) was created from the territories reconquered from the Swedish Empire in the Great Northern War.[1] In 1704 prince Alexander Menshikov was appointed as its first governor, and in 1706 it was first Russian region designated as a Governorate.[2] According to the Tsar Peter the Great's edict as on December 29 O.S. December 18, 1708,[3] the whole Russia was split into eight Governorates. In the same year Ingermanland Governorate was further expanded to encompass the regions of Pskov, Novgorod and other towns of Western Russia.[4][5] As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Ingermanland Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.[6]

By another edict on June 3, 1710, the governorate was renamed St. Petersburg Governorate after the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg, and in 1721 the former Swedish Duchy of Ingria, and parts of Kexholm County and the County of Viborg and Nyslott were formally ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Nystad. After the Treaty of Åbo in 1743, the parts of Kexholm and Viborg were joined with new territorial gains from Sweden into the Governorate of Vyborg (Russian: Выборгская губерния).

From August 18, 1914 to January 26, 1924 it was named Petrograd Governorate, and during 1924–1927 — Leningrad Governorate. It was abolished on August 1, 1927 when modern Leningrad Oblast was created.

Cities included into Ingermanland Governorate at the time of its establishment[3]
CityCityCity
1.St. Petersburg12.Narva23.Staraya Rusa
2.Beloozero13.Olonets24.Toropets
3.Bezhetskoy Verkh14.Opochek25.Torzhok
4.Derptskoy uyezd15.Ostrov26.Tver
5.Gdov16.Porkhov27.Uglich
6.Izborsk17.Poshekhonye28.Ustyuzhna Zheleznopolskaya
7.Kargopol18.Pskov29.Veliky Novgorod
8.Kashin19.Romanov30.Yamburg
9.Koporye20.Rzheva pustaya (Zavolochye)31.Yaroslavl
10.Ladoga21.Rzheva Volodimirova
11.Luki Velikiye22.Shlisselburg

Administrative divisions

The governorate was composed of eight counties (uezds) as of January 1, 1914. Follows the table:

CountyCounty TownArms of County TownAreaPopulation
(1897 census)
Transliteration nameRussian Cyrillic
GdovskyГдовскийGdov8,810 km2
(3,400 sq mi)		145,573
LuzhskyЛужскийLuga10,192.7 km2
(3,935.4 sq mi)		133,466
NovoladozhskyНоволадожскийNovaya Ladoga8,707.4 km2
(3,361.9 sq mi)		87,841
PetergofskyПетергофскийPetergof2,742.5 km2
(1,058.9 sq mi)		140,547
Sankt-PeterburgskyСанкт-ПетербургскийSaint Petersburg
(Sankt–Peterburg)		1,973.8 km2
(762.1 sq mi)		1,317,885
TsarskoselskyЦарскосельскийTsarskoye Selo4,303.9 km2
(1,661.7 sq mi)		149,845
ShlisselburgskyШлиссельбургскийShlisselburg3,870.7 km2
(1,494.5 sq mi)		54,904
YamburgskyЯмбургскийYamburg4,014.4 km2
(1,550.0 sq mi)		81,972

Supernumerary town

CityPopulationPart ofArms
Gatchina14,824Tsarskoselsky Uyezd
Kronstadt59,525Petergofsky Uyezd
Narva16,599Yamburgsky Uyezd
Oranienbaum5,458Petergofsky Uyezd
Pavlovsk5,113Tsarskoselsky Uyezd

Former city

CityPopulationPart ofArms
Rozhdestveno980Tsarskoselsky Uyezd
Sofia1,190

Governorate administration

General Governors

Governors

Marshals of the nobility

Served as chair of the Assembly of Nobility

See also

Notes

  1. ^ * Russian: Санкт-Петербургская губерния, pre-reformed orthography: Санктъ-Петербу́ргская губе́рнія, Sankt-Peterbúrgskaya gubérniya

References

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  2. ^ "Национальные окраины российской империи. Становление и развитие системы управления. Институт Российской истории РАН, М. 1997 // Полное собрание законов Российской империи. 1-е собрание. СПб., 1830. Т. 4. № 1954. С. 334.". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  3. ^ Указ об учреждении губерний и о росписании к ним городов (in Russian)
  4. ^ "Архивы Санкт-Петербурга. Краткая справка о границах С.-Петербургской (Петроградской) губернии с XVIII в. до 1918 года". Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  5. ^ Славнитский Н. Р. Утверждение России в Ингерманландии в царствование Петра Великого, стр. 27
  6. ^ С. А. Тархов (2001). "Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет". Электронная версия журнала "География". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2014-02-03.