Kaluga Governorate

Kaluga Governorate Калужская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1796–1929
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Capital	Kaluga
Area
• 1897	28,993 km^2 (11,194 sq mi)
Population
• 1897	1,132,843[1]
History
• Established	12 December 1796
• Disestablished	1 October 1929
Preceded by Succeeded by Kaluga Viceroyalty Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Governorate (Russian: Калужская губерния, romanized: Kaluzhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.^[2] Its capital was Kaluga.^[3]

Administrative division

Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):

• Borovsky Uyezd (Borovsk)
• Zhizdrinsky Uyezd (Zhizdra)
• Kaluzhsky Uyezd (Kaluga)
• Kozelsky Uyezd (Kozelsk)
• Likhvinsky Uyezd (Likhvin)
• Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd (Maloyaroslavets)
• Medynsky Uyezd (Medyn)
• Meshchovsky Uyezd (Meshchovsk)
• Mosalsky Uyezd (Mosalsk)
• Peremyshlsky Uyezd (Peremyshl)
• Tarussky Uyezd (Tarusa)

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language.^[4]

References

1. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
2. Постановление ВЦИК от 14.01.1929 «Об образовании на территории Р. С. Ф. С. Р. административно-территориальных объединений краевого и областного значения»
3. "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 г." Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
4. [1] Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей

Further reading

• William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kaluga", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library

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