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Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty Екатеринославское наместничество
Viceroyalty of Russian Empire
1783–1796
Coat of arms
Map of 1792
Capital	Kremenchug (1783), Yekaterinoslav (1789-1796)
History
• Established	March 26 1783
• Disestablished	December 31 1796
Preceded by Succeeded by Novorossiya Governorate Azov Governorate Don Host Oblast Novorossiya Governorate Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Today part of	Ukraine Russia

The Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty ^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit ( namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which was created on 26 March 1783 by merging Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into re-established Novorossiya Governorate.

Composition

The Viceroyalty was divided into counties known as uyezds. There were around 15 counties.

Former Novorossiysk Governorate

• Poltava Province
  • Kremenchuk county (capital)
  • Kobelyaki county (previously Novye Sanzhary county)
  • Poltava county
• Yelizavetgrad Province
  • Yelizavetgrad county
  • Olviopol county (previously Yekaterinine county)
  • Petrikovka county (previously Kryukov county)
• Nikopol Province (previously Slaviansk Province)
  • Krivoy Rog county (previously Ingul county)
  • Nikopol county (previously Slaviansk county)
  • Novye Kodaki county (previously Saksangan county)
• Kherson Province
  • Kazykermen county
  • Novopavlovka county
  • Kherson county

Former Azov Governorate (II)

• Bakhmut county
• Aleksandrovsk county (New Dnieper fortification line and portion of Kalmius Palatinate)
• Yekaterinine county (Samar Palatinate)
• Marienpol county
• Natalkov county
• Pavlov county (main part of Kalmius Palatinate)
• Taganrog county
• Tor county
• Tsarychan county (Orel and Protovcha palatinates and Donets pikers regiment)

Viceroyalty governors

Governor-General (Viceroy)

• 1783 — 05.10.1791 — Grigoriy Potemkin
• 1793—1796 — Platon Zubov

Viceroyalty governors

• 1783—1784 — Timofei Tutomlin
• 1784—1788 — Ivan Sinelnikov
• 1789—1794 — Vasiliy Kakhovskiy
• 1794—15.12.1796 — Joseph Horvat

References

See also

• Yekaterinoslav Governorate

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