Kaluga Governorate
Kaluga Governorate (‹See Tfd›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. Its capital was Kaluga.
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.
References
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- ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ Постановление ВЦИК от 14.01.1929 «Об образовании на территории Р. С. Ф. С. Р. административно-территориальных объединений краевого и областного значения»
- ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 г." Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
- ^ [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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