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History and Administrative Division .
Created in 1802, dissolved in 1917-1925. Predecessors Malorossiya Gubernia 1796-1802, before that the area had been placed under a Namestnik
(viceroy) in 1781. Prior to that it had been under the Ukrainian Hetmanate. Poltava Gubernia bordered on
Chernigov and Kursk Gubernia in the north, on Kharkov Gubernia in the
east, on Ekaterinoslav and Kherson Gubernia in the south, and
of Kiev Gubernia in the west. The Zemstvo constitution, providing for regional self-administration, was introduced in 1865. As Zemstvo parliaments were dominated by estate owners, these institutions were abolished in the course of the Russian Revolution. Following the Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1920 the area became part of the Ukraine. Population . Population in 1885 2,653,189 (Meyer), in 1897 2,778,151, in 1914 2,794,727 (Wikipedia). The inhabitants, by ethnicity were mostly Ukrainian, by religion Russian Orthodox, with a few Catholics, Protestants and Jews (Meyer). Economy . In 1884, 66.5 % of the area was farmland, 22.7 % pastorage, 5.8 % forest. Main agricultural products were grain, lentals, hop, melons, tobacco. Leading industries included beet sugar industry, distilleries, grain mills, tobacco processing. (Meyer). In 1906, peasant communities owned 52 % of the farmland, with 42 % being owned by nobles (EB 1911). |
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Article Poltava Governorate, from Wikipedia Article Poltavskaya Gubernia, from Wikipedia Russian edition Article Poltava Gubernia, from Brockhaus / Efron 1890-1907, in Russian |
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List of Match Factories in the Russian Empire : Poltava Gubernia, from
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Das Gouvernement Poltawa, pp.507-509 in Th. Fr. Ehrmann,
Neueste Kunde vom Russischen Reiche in Europa und Asien,
vol.3 of Neueste Länder- und Völkerkunde, 1807, in German, GB Das Gouvernement Poltawa, pp.149-151 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; Poltava pp.33-34 |
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Kohut, Zenon E., Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, Rowman & Littlefield 2005, KMLA Lib.Sign. R 947.7 K79h |