Samara Governorate

{{Short description|1850–1928 unit of Russia}} {{Infobox former subdivision |native_name=Самарская губерния |conventional_long_name=Samara Governorate |common_name=Samara |subdivision=Governorate |nation=the Russian Empire |year_start=1850 |date_start= |year_end=1928 |date_end=14 May |image_flag= |image_coat=Coat of arms of Samara Governorate 1878.svg |image_map=Samara in Russian Empire (1914).svg |image_map_caption=Location within the Russian Empire |capital=Samara |political_subdiv= |stat_pop1=2,751,336 |stat_area1= |stat_year1=1897 }} '''Samara Governorate''' ({{langx|ru|Самарская губерния|Samarskaya guberniya}}) was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.<ref name=":0">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Самарская губерния|encyclopedia=Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary|publisher=|location=St. Petersburg|url=https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%A1%D0%91%D0%95/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F|first=|date=1900|language=Russian|trans-title=Samara Governorate}}</ref>

==Samara Governate under the Russian Empire==

=== Administrative divisions === From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:<ref name=":0" />

thumb|Map of the administrative divisions of the governorate, to 1918

{| class="wikitable" |- ! No. ! Uezd ! County town ! Coat of Arms<br>of the county town ! Area, <br>Square miles ! Population<ref name="Demoscope Samara">{{cite web |date=10 January 2012 |title=The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. The actual population in the provinces, districts, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland) |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_gub_97.php?reg=35 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110125954/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_gub_97.php?reg=35 |archive-date=2012-01-10 |access-date=9 June 2023 |publisher=Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics}}</ref> <br> (1897) |- | 1 | Bugulminsky | Bugulma (7 581 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |60px | style="text-align:right" |10 803,1 | style="text-align:right" |299 884 |- | 2 | Buguruslansky | Buguruslan (12 109 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |17 068,7 | style="text-align:right" |405 994 |- | 3 | Buzuluksky | Buzuluk (14 362 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |60px | style="text-align:right" |22 427,0 | style="text-align:right" |492 952 |- | 4 | Nikolayevsky | Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |28 196,9 | style="text-align:right" |494 736 |- | 5 | Novouzensky | Novouzensk (13 261 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |альт=|60px | style="text-align:right" |34 585,9 | style="text-align:right" |417 376 |- | 6 | Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |45px | style="text-align:right" |13 155,4 | style="text-align:right" |357 018 |- | 7 | Stavropolsky | Stavropol (5 969 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |10 476,5 | style="text-align:right" |283 376 |}

==Post-revolutionary period until abolition (1928)== {{Empty section|date=June 2025}}

== References == <references />{{Divisions of the Russian Empire}}

Category:Samara Governorate Category:1851 establishments in the Russian Empire Category:1928 disestablishments in Russia Category:States and territories disestablished in 1928 Category:States and territories established in 1851