Smolensk Governorate
1796–1929 unit of Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Smolensk Governorate (Russian: Смоленская губерния, romanized: Smolenskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR. It existed, with interruptions, between 1708 and 1929.
Smolensk Governorate Смоленская губерния | |||||||||
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Governorate of Russian Empire | |||||||||
1796–1929 | |||||||||
Location within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
Capital | Smolensk | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,525,279 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | January 14, 1929 | ||||||||
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Smolensk Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by an edict from Tsar Peter the Great.[1] As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Smolensk Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities, and section of lands adjacent to those cities.[2]