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Novorossiya Governorate
Новороссийская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1764–1783 1796–1802
Coat of arms
General-Governorate of New Russia in 1800
Capital
St Elizabeth Fort (1764) Kremenchug (1765–1776) Yekaterinoslav (Novorossiysk) (1776–1783)
Demonym
New Russian
History
• Established
22 March 1764
• First disestablishment
1783
• Reestablished
December 1796
• Disestablished
1802
Political subdivisions
provinces, uyezds
Preceded by
Succeeded by
1764: New Serbia
Slavo-Serbia
Cossack Hetmanate
Ukrainian defensive line
1796: Taurida Oblast
Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty
Voznesensk Viceroyalty
1775: Azov Governorate
1783: Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty
1802: Mykolaiv Governorate
Taurida Governorate
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Today part of
Ukraine
Map of the Ukrainian LineZaporizhian Sich in 1760 with territories colonized by foreignersMap of the General-Governorate of New Russia in 1779 which shows partitioning of lands of the Zaporizhian Host between Novorossiya and Azoff governorates
Novorossiya Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1764–1783 and again in 1796–1802. It was created and governed according to the "Plan for the Colonization of New Russia Governorate" issued by the Russian Senate.[1] It became the first region in Russia where Catherine the Great allowed foreign Jews to settle.[1]
Most of its territories belonged to the Zaporozhian Sich as well as the Poltava Regiment and Myrhorod Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. Its establishment was strategically successful and advantageous for Russia, and after the conclusion of the Russian war against Turkey in 1774 it gave a way for it to access the Black Sea and establish an area that became known as Novorossiya ("New Russia"). It was created based on the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire against the Ottoman Empire and involved many military units from the region that were resettled in Ukraine. The military units included mounted cossacks (or hussars) and mounted pikers (or lancers).
In 1796, the governorate was reestablished, but with the centre not in Kremenchug but in Yekaterinoslav, and in 1802 was split into three governorates: the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, the Taurida Governorate, the Nikolayev Governorate (known as the Kherson Governorate from 1803).
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^ abNew Russia Governorate at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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