Oryol Governorate
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| Oryol Governorate Орловская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1778/1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||
| 1778/1796–1928 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Oryol | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 46,726.2 km2 (18,041.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897[1] | 2,033,798 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1778/1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1928 | ||||||||
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Oryol Governorate (Russian: Орловская губерния, romanized: Orlovskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol.
Administrative division
Oryol Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Bolkhovsky Uyezd (Bolkhov)
- Bryansky Uyezd (Bryansk)
- Dmitrovsky Uyezd (Dmitrovsk)
- Yeletsky Uyezd (Yelets)
- Karachevsky Uyezd (Karachev)
- Kromskoy Uyezd (Kromy)
- Livensky Uyezd (Livny)
- Maloarkhangelsky Uyezd (Maloarkhangelsk)
- Mtsensky Uyezd (Mtsensk)
- Orlovsky Uyezd (Oryol)
- Sevsky Uyezd (Sevsk)
- Trubchevsky Uyezd (Trubchevsk)
References
- ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).
Wikisource has the text of the 1921 Collier's Encyclopedia article Orel (government).
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