Samara Governorate
1850–1928 unit of Russia
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Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanized: Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.[1]
| Samara Governorate Самарская губерния | |
|---|---|
| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |
| 1850–1928 | |
Coat of arms
| |
.svg) Location within the Russian Empire | |
| Capital | Samara |
| Population | |
• 1897 | 2,751,336 |
| History | |
• Established | 1850 |
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 |
Samara Governate under the Russian Empire
Administrative divisions
From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:[1]
| No. | Uezd | County town | Coat of Arms of the county town |
Area, Square miles |
Population[2] (1897) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bugulminsky | Bugulma (7 581 pop.) | _(1865).gif) |
10 803,1 | 299 884 |
| 2 | Buguruslansky | Buguruslan (12 109 pop.) | _(1851).gif) |
17 068,7 | 405 994 |
| 3 | Buzuluksky | Buzuluk (14 362 pop.) | _(1865).gif) |
22 427,0 | 492 952 |
| 4 | Nikolayevsky | Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.) | _(Samara_Governorate)_(1910).gif) |
28 196,9 | 494 736 |
| 5 | Novouzensky | Novouzensk (13 261 pop.) | _(1900).gif) |
34 585,9 | 417 376 |
| 6 | Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.) | _(1780).png){kind=small} |
13 155,4 | 357 018 |
| 7 | Stavropolsky | Stavropol (5 969 pop.) | _COA_(Samara_Governorate)_(1871).gif) |
10 476,5 | 283 376 |
