Kaluga Governorate
1796–1929 unit of Russia
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Kaluga Governorate (Russian: Калужская губерния, romanized: Kaluzhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.[2] Its capital was Kaluga.[3]
CapitalKaluga
1897
28,993 km2 (11,194 sq mi)| Kaluga Governorate Калужская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1796–1929 | |||||||||
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| Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Kaluga | ||||||||
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• 1897 | 28,993 km2 (11,194 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,132,843[1] | ||||||||
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• Established | 12 December 1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 October 1929 | ||||||||
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Administrative division
Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Borovsky Uyezd (Borovsk)
- Zhizdrinsky Uyezd (Zhizdra)
- Kaluzhsky Uyezd (Kaluga)
- Kozelsky Uyezd (Kozelsk)
- Likhvinsky Uyezd (Likhvin)
- Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd (Maloyaroslavets)
- Medynsky Uyezd (Medyn)
- Meshchovsky Uyezd (Meshchovsk)
- Mosalsky Uyezd (Mosalsk)
- Peremyshlsky Uyezd (Peremyshl)
- Tarussky Uyezd (Tarusa)
Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language.[4]
