Oryol Governorate
1796–1928 unit of Russia
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Oryol Governorate (Russian: Орловская губерния, romanized: Orlovskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol.
| Oryol Governorate Орловская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1778/1796–1917), Russian Republic, and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||
| 1778/1796–1928 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Oryol | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 46,726.2 km2 (18,041.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
| 2,033,798 | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1778/1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1928 | ||||||||
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Administrative division
Oryol Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Bolkhovsky Uyezd (Bolkhov)
- Bryansky Uyezd (Bryansk)
- Dmitrovsky Uyezd (Dmitrovsk)
- Yeletsky Uyezd (Yelets)
- Karachevsky Uyezd (Karachev)
- Kromskoy Uyezd (Kromy)
- Livensky Uyezd (Livny)
- Maloarkhangelsky Uyezd (Maloarkhangelsk)
- Mtsensky Uyezd (Mtsensk)
- Orlovsky Uyezd (Oryol)
- Sevsky Uyezd (Sevsk)
- Trubchevsky Uyezd (Trubchevsk)
