Tula Governorate

Tula Governorate Тульская губерния
Governorate of Russian Empire (1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1929)
1796–1929
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Capital	Tula
Area
•	30,960.3 km^2 (11,953.8 sq mi)
Population
• 1897[1]	1,419,456
History
• Established	1796
• Disestablished	1929
Preceded by Succeeded by Tula Viceroyalty Central Industrial Oblast

Tula Governorate (Russian: Тульская губерния, romanized: Tul'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, with its capital in Tula.^[2]

The governate existed from 1796 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Tula. It was divided into 12 districts.^[2] The main towns were Alexin, Bogoroditsk, Byelev, Chern, Epifan, Efremov, Kashira, Krapivna, Novosil, Odoyev, Tula, and Venev.

Administrative division

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

• Aleksinsky Uyezd (Aleksin)
• Belyovsky Uyezd (Belyov)
• Bogoroditsky Uyezd (Bogoroditsk)
• Venyovsky Uyezd (Venyov)
• Yepifansky Uyezd (Yepifan)
• Yefremovsky Uyezd (Yefremov)
• Kashirsky Uyezd (Kashira)
• Krapivensky Uyezd (Krapivna)
• Novosilsky Uyezd (Novosil)
• Odoyevsky Uyezd (Odoyev)
• Tulsky Uyezd (Tula)
• Chernsky Uyezd (Chern)

See also

• Tula Oblast

References

1. "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).
2. "Tula" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 365–366.

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