Kharkov Governorate [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Kharkov Governorate
Kharkov Governorate () was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there existed the Kharkov Viceroyalty.
Demographics.
Demographics 1897 Russian Census.
- By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
External links.
- Kharkiv Governorate at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
July 28, 1765. The semiautonomous region became a province called Sloboda Ukraine Governorate ("Slobodsko-Ukrainskaya guberniya"). Saint Petersburg replaced the regimental administrations with Russian hussar regiments, and granted Cossack higher ranks ("starshinas") officership and nobility ("dvoryanstvo"). In 1780, the governorate was transformed into the Kharkov Viceroyalty ("namestnichestvo") which existed until the end of 1796, when it was again renamed into Sloboda Ukrainian Governorate. Each administrative reform involved territorial changes.
In 1835 the province