Governorates-General () were a type of administrative-territorial division in the

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from 1775 to 1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and

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s. The term was occasionally used to refer to

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s or military guberniyas. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

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Governorates-General were governed by

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, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General

* Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg * Governorate-General of Moscow * Governorate-General of Azov * Belorussian Governorate-General (1775–1856) * Siberian Governorate-General (1802–1822) ** East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1884), split *** Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 – June 9, 1880) ( Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "

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" turning

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into city-port. *** Amur Governorate-General (1887–1917) *** Governorate-General of Irkutsk (1887–1917) ** West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1882) * Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794–1912) * Governorate-General of Kiev (1832–1912), also known as the

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(

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) * Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno * Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802–1856) * Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802–1873) * Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851–1881) *

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* Baltic General Governorate * Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874–1917) *

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* Governor-Generalship of the Steppes * Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917) *

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, also known as the General Government of Finland

Description

List of Governorates-General

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