Governorate-General (Russian Empire)
# Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

Governorates-General (Russian: генерал-губернаторство; general-gubernatorstvo) were a type of administrative-territorial division in the Russian Empire from 1775–1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and oblasts. The term was sometimes used to refer to krais or military guberniyas. The Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

## Description

Governorates-General were governed by governors-general, 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 "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok 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 Southwestern Krai (Right-bank Ukraine)
* Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno
* Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802–1856)
* Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802–1873)
* Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851–1881)
* General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
* Baltic General Governorate
* Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874–1917)
* Russian Turkestan
* Governor-Generalship of the Steppes
* Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
* Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland
