Samara Governorate
Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanized: Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.
Map of the administrative divisions of the governorate, to 1918
Samara Governate under the Russian Empire
Administrative divisions
From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:
| No. | Uezd | County town | Coat of Arms of the county town |
Area, Square miles |
Population (1897) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bugulminsky | Bugulma (7 581 pop.) | _(1865).gif)
|
10 803,1 | 299 884 |
| 2 | Buguruslansky | Buguruslan (12 109 pop.) | _(1851).gif)
|
17 068,7 | 405 994 |
| 3 | Buzuluksky | Buzuluk (14 362 pop.) | _(1865).gif)
|
22 427,0 | 492 952 |
| 4 | Nikolayevsky | Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.) | _(Samara_Governorate)_(1910).gif)
|
28 196,9 | 494 736 |
| 5 | Novouzensky | Novouzensk (13 261 pop.) | _(1900).gif)
|
34 585,9 | 417 376 |
| 6 | Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.) | _(1780).png){kind=small}
|
13 155,4 | 357 018 |
| 7 | Stavropolsky | Stavropol (5 969 pop.) | _COA_(Samara_Governorate)_(1871).gif)
|
10 476,5 | 283 376 |