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History and Administrative Division .
Established in 1708 as Ingermanland Gubernia, in 1710 renamed Sankt Petersburg Gubernia. In 1727 Novgorod Gubernia split off. Bordered in the north on
Finland, in the northeast on Olonets Gubernia, in the southeast on
Novgorod Gubernia, in the south on Pskov Gubernia, in the west on
Livland Gubernia (Livonia) and Reval Gubernia (Estonia). Samkt Petersburg Gubernia was divided in 8 districts (Uyezds) : Gdov, Yamburg, Luga, Novaya Ladoga, Peterhof, S., Schlüsselburg und Tsarskoe Selo. The Zemstvo Laws passed in 1864 granted regional self-government on Gubernia and Uyezd level; the regional administrative bodies are refererred to as Zemstvos. The Zemstvos were abolished in the course of the October Revolution. Population . The population in 1811 was 600,000, in 1840 934,300, in 1867 1,160,000, in 1885 1,646,100, in 1914 3,197,800 (Lahmeyer). The vast majority was Russian Orthodox, further Old Believers, Armenians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims. Economy . In 1883, 44.8 % of the area was covered by forest, 21.5 % by swamps, 20.7 % was pastorage, 13 % was farmland. Main agricultural pruducts included grain, potatoes, flax. In 1885, 793 factories with a combined workforce of 77,471 industrial workers were counted. The leading industries included textile industry, distillery, machine production, tobacco factories, steel production, sugar refineries etc. (Meyer) Historic Encyclopedias on Sankt Petersburg Gubernia, 1857-1915 |
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Sankt Petersburgskaya Gubernia, from Wikipedia Russian edition |
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Articles : Sankt Petersburg, from Meyers Konversationslexikon
1885-1892, in German H.F. von Storch, The Picture of Petersburg , 1801, GB E. Jerrmann, St. Petersburg: its people; their character and institutions , 1855, GB J.G. Köhl, Panorama of St. Petersburg, 1852, GB |
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List of Match Factories in the Russian Empire : Sankt Petersburg Gubernia, from
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Tsarskoye Selo, from EB 1911 Articles Sankt Petersburg, Ingermanland, Gdow, Jamburg, Kronstadt, Luga, Nowaja Ladoga, Peterhof, Schlüsselburg, Zarskoje Selo, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German |
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Petersburg, pp.217-218 in D.St. Kelly,
The shipmaster's assistant, and owner's manual, 1826, GB |
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Petersburg, in R. Brookes,
The General Gozeiteer or compendious Geographical dictionary, 1791, GB Das Gouvernement St. Petersburg, pp.289-349 in Th. Fr. Ehrmann, Neueste Kunde vom Russischen Reiche in Europa und Asien, vol.3 of Neueste Länder- und Völkerkunde, 1807, in German, GB Petersburg pp.233-241, in The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion, 1809, GB Petersburg, pp.20-25 in vol.5 of The Edinburgh Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, 1822, GB Petersburg, pp.179-181 in The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, 1825, GB Petersburg, in : R. Brookes, The General Gazetteer : or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary, 1827, GB Petersburg, pp.505-510 in vol.6 of C. Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, 1827, GB Petersburg, in G. Landmann, A universal Gazetteer : or, Geographical Dictionary, 1836, GB Petersburg, p.347 in vol.4 of G.N. Wright, A new and comprehensive gazetteer, 1837, GB Das Gouvernement Sankt Petersburg, pp.154-215 in vol.1 of Das Russische Kaiserreich, seine Geographie, Statistik, Volks- und Regentengeschichte, 1847, in German, GB W.H. Beable, Russian gazetteer and guide, being an account of the territorial divisions and a description of over 300 of the principal towns and cities of Russia, Finland and Siberia (1919), posted on Internet Archive; Petrograd p.32 |
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