List of Provinces

Below is a list of all the provinces that existed in the Russian Empire , the RSFSR , the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR . In parentheses are the dates of existence, renaming of provinces, the names of administrative centers having names other than the names of provinces.

Content

Educated before February 1917

Abo-Björneborg Province ( 1811 - 1917 , Abo ),
August Province ( 1837 - 1866 , Lomza , from 1844 Suwalki ),
The province of Azov ( 1708 - 1725 , renamed Voronezh, 1775 - 1784 ),
Arkhangelogorod Province ( 1708 - 1780 ),
Arkhangelsk province ( 1796 - 1929 ),
Astrakhan province ( 1717 - 1785 , 1796 - 1928 ),
Baku province ( 1859 - 1920 ),
Bessarabian province ( 1873 - 1918 , Chisinau ),
Belgorod province ( 1728 - 1779 ),
Belorussian province ( 1796 - 1802 , Vitebsk ),
Vaz province ( 1811 - 1917 , Vase (then Nikolaystad) ),
Warsaw province ( 1837 - 1917 ),
Vilna Province ( 1796 - 1797 , 1801 - 1921 ) (former governorship),
Vitebsk province ( 1802 - 1924 ),
Vladimir province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Voznesenskaya province ( 1796 - 1797 , Voznesensk , temporarily Novomirgorod ) (former governorship),
Vologda province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Volyn province ( 1796 - 1925 , Zhytomyr ) (former governorship),
Voronezh province ( 1725 - 1779 (formerly Azov; renamed to governorate), 1796 - 1928 ),
Vyborg province ( 1744 - 1783 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1802 (renamed Finland), 1811 - 1917 ),
Vyatka province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Grodno province ( 1801 - 1919 ),
Georgian-Imereti province ( 1840 - 1846 , Tiflis ),
Georgian province ( 1801 - 1840 , Tiflis ),
Derbent province ( 1846 - 1860 ),
Yekaterinoslav province ( 1802 - 1925 ) (formerly governorate),
Elizabethpol province ( 1868 - 1918 ),
Yenisei province ( 1822 - 1925 , Krasnoyarsk ),
Izyaslav province ( 1792 - 1793 (renamed governorship)),
Ingermanland Province ( 1706 - 1710 , Noteburg , then St. Petersburg , renamed St. Petersburg),
Irkutsk province ( 1764 - 1783 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1926 ),
Caucasian province ( 1785 - 1796 , 1802 - 1822 ; Ekaterinograd , from 1790 Astrakhan , from 1802 Georgievsk ),
Kazan province ( 1708 - 1781 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1920 ),
Kalish province ( 1837 - 1844 , 1867 - 1917 ),
Kaluga province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Kielce province ( 1841 - 1844 , 1867 - 1917 ),
Kiev province ( 1708 - 1781 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1925 ),
Coven province ( 1842 - 1920 ),
Kostroma province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Krakow province ( 1837 - 1844 , Kielce ),
Kuopio province ( 1811 - 1917 ),
Courland province ( 1796 - 1920 , Mitawa ) (former governorship),
Kursk province ( 1796 - 1928 ) (former governorship),
Kutaisi province ( 1846 - 1920 ),
Lithuanian province ( 1797 - 1801 , Vilno ),
Livonia province ( 1796 - 1920 , Riga ),
Lomzhinsky province ( 1867 - 1917 ),
Lviv province ( 1914 - 1915 ),
Lublin province ( 1837 - 1917 ),
Masovian province ( 1837 - 1844 , Warsaw ),
Little Russian province ( 1764 - 1781 , Glukhov , from 1773 Kozelets , from 1775 Kiev ; in 1796-1802 Chernigov ),
Minsk province ( 1793 - 1795 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1921 ),
Mogilev province ( 1773 - 1777 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1796 , 1802 - 1919 ),
Moscow province ( 1708 - 1929 ),
Nizhny Novgorod province ( 1714 - 1717 , 1719 - 1779 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1929 ),
Nikolaev province ( 1802 - 1803 , renamed Kherson),
Novgorod province ( 1727 - 1776 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1927 ),
Novorossiysk province ( 1764 - 1784 , Kremenchug ; 1796 - 1802 , Yekaterinoslav (Novorossiysk since 1797)),
Nyuland Province ( 1811 - 1917 ), Helsingfors ,
Olonets province ( 1801 - 1922 , Petrozavodsk ),
Orenburg province ( 1744 - 1781 , 1796 - 1920 , 1921 - 1928 ),
Oryol province ( 1796 - 1928 ) (former governorship),
Penza province ( 1796 - 1797 , 1801 - 1928 ) (former governorship),
Przemysl province ( 1915 - 1915 ),
Perm province ( 1796 - 1923 ) (former governorship),
Petrograd province ( 1914 - 1924 ),
Petrokovskaya province ( 1867 - 1917 ),
Plotsk province ( 1837 - 1917 ),
Podlasie province ( 1837 - 1844 , Siedlec ),
Podolsk province ( 1796 - 1925 , Kamenetz-Podolsky ) (former governorship),
Poltava province ( 1802 - 1925 ),
Pskov province ( 1772 - 1777 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1927 , until 1776 Opochka ),
Radom province ( 1844 - 1917 ),
Revel province ( 1719 - 1783 (renamed governorship)),
Riga province ( 1713 - 1783 (renamed governorship)),
Ryazan province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Samara province ( 1850 - 1928 ),
Sandomierz province ( 1837 - 1844 ),
St. Petersburg province ( 1710 - 1914 , renamed Petrograd, until 1710 Ingermanland),
Saratov province ( 1796 - 1928 ) (former governorship),
Siedletsk province ( 1867 - 1912 ),
St. Michel Province ( 1811 - 1917 ),
Siberian province ( 1708 - 1782 , Tobolsk ),
Simbirsk province ( 1796 - 1924 ) (former governorship),
Sloboda-Ukrainian province ( 1765 - 1780 , 1796 - 1835 , Kharkov ; renamed Kharkov)
Slonim province ( 1796 - 1797 ) (former governorship),
Smolensk province ( 1708 - 1713 , 1726 - 1775 (renamed governorship), 1796 - 1929 ),
Stavropol province ( 1847 - 1924 ),
Suwalk province ( 1867 - 1920 ),
Tavastgus province ( 1811 - 1917 ),
Tauride province ( 1802 - 1921 , Simferopol ),
Tambov province ( 1796 - 1928 ) (former governorship),
Tarnopol Province ( 1914 - 1917 ),
Tver province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Tiflis province ( 1846 - 1920 ),
Tobolsk province ( 1796 - 1919 ) (former governorship),
Tomsk province ( 1804 - 1925 ),
Tula province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (former governorship),
Uleaborg province ( 1811 - 1917 ),
Ufa province ( 1865 - 1922 ) (formerly governorate),
Finland province ( 1802 - 1811 , see Vyborg),
Kharkiv province ( 1835 - 1925 ; in 1765 - 1780 , 1796 - 1835 Sloboda-Ukrainian) (formerly governorate),
Kherson province ( 1803 - 1921 , until 1803 Nikolaev),
Kholm province ( 1912 - 1917 ),
Chernihiv province ( 1802 - 1925 ) (formerly governorate),
Chernivtsi province ( 1914 - 1917 ),
Black Sea province ( 1896 - 1920 , Novorossiysk ),
Shamakhi province ( 1846 - 1859 ),
Erivan province ( 1849 - 1920 ),
Estland Province ( 1783 - 1920 , Revel ; until 1796 Revel)
Yaroslavl province ( 1796 - 1929 ) (formerly governorate).

Educated after February 1917

Altai province ( 1917 - 1925 , Barnaul ),
Bukeev province ( 1917 - 1925 , Khan Headquarters - renamed Urda )

Educated after October 1917

Akmola province (1921-1928, Petropavlovsk ),
Aktobe province (1921-1928),
Alexander province (1920-1921, see Zaporizhzhya),
Amur Province (1922-1926, Blagoveshchensk ),
Bryansk province (1920-1929),
Gandizhanskaya province (1918-1920, former Elizabethpol),
Gomel province (1919-1926, the former Mogilev),
Donetsk province (1920-1925, Bakhmut ),
Yekaterinburg province (1919-1923),
Transbaikal Province (1922-1926, Chita ),
Zaporizhzhya province (1920-1922, until 1921 Alexandrovskaya),
Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya province (1918-1929),
Kamchatka province (1922-1926, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ),
Kremenchug province (1920-1922),
Kustanai province (1921-1925),
Murmansk province (1921-1927),
Nikolaev province (1920-1922),
Novonikolayevskaya province (1921-1925),
Odessa province (1920-1925),
Omsk province (1920-1925),
Orenburg-Turgai province (1920-1921, Orenburg ),
Amur Province (1922-1923, Khabarovsk ),
Pribaikalsky province (1922-1923, Verkhneudinsk ),
Primorsky province (1922-1926, Vladivostok ),
Rybinsk province (1921-1923),
North Dvina province (1918-1929, Veliky Ustyug ),
Semipalatinsk province (1920-1928),
Terek province (1921-1924, Georgievsk ),
Turgai province (1921, Orenburg),
Tyumen province (1919-1923, former Tobolsk),
Ural province (1920-1928),
Tsaritsyn province (1919-1925, see Stalingrad),
Chelyabinsk province (1919-1923),
Cherepovets province (1918-1927),
Yakutsk province (1920-1922).

Educated after the creation of the USSR

Dzhetysu province (1924-1928, Alma-Ata ),
Leningrad province (1924-1927, the former Petrograd),
Stalingrad province (1925-1928, the former Tsaritsyn),
Syrdarya province (1924-1928, Chimkent ),
Ulyanovsk province (1924-1928, the former Simbirsk).

Provincial Annual Reviews

1870–1879

Province	for 1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
Novgorod	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB

1880–1889

Province	for 1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
Novgorod	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB		GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB
Tomsk		PDF 79 pp.	PDF 117 p.	PDF 160 pp.	PDF 179 pp.	PDF 92 pp.	PDF 74 pp.	PDF 97 p.	PDF 95 p.

1890–1899

Province	for 1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
Arkhangelsk			GPIB
Astrakhan	GPIB
Bessarabian	GPIB
Warsaw	GPIB
Vilenskaya	GPIB
Vladimirskaya			GPIB
Vologda	GPIB
Voronezh	GPIB
Vyatka	GPIB
Ekaterinoslav	GPIB
Irkutsk	GPIB
Kostroma	GPIB
Kursk	GPIB
Moscow	GPIB
Novgorod	GPIB , PDF 60 pp.	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB
Olonetskaya	GPIB
Orenburg	GPIB
Oryol			GPIB
Penza		GPIB
Perm	GPIB
Primorsky region		GPIB
Ryazan	GPIB
Samara	GPIB
St. Petersburg	GPIB
Smolenskaya	GPIB
Stavropol	GPIB
Tambov	GPIB
Tverskaya	GPIB
Tomsk		PDF 128 pp.	PDF 129 pp.	PDF 145 pp.	PDF 107 pages	PDF 106 p.	PDF 119 pp.		PDF 99 p.
Tula	GPIB
Ufa	GPIB
Yaroslavskaya	GPIB

1900–1909

Province	for 1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
Lomzhinskaya					PDF 319 pages
Novgorod	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	PRLIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB
Perm	PDF 126 pp.			PDF 134 pp.	PDF 133 pp.	PDF 170 p.
Sedletskaya		IA
Tomsk			PDF 112 pp.	PDF 93 pp.	PDF 93 pp.	PDF 103 pp.	PDF 104 p.

1910–1916

Province	for 1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916
Novgorod	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB	GPIB
Perm	PDF 176 p.	PDF 176 p.				PDF 183 pages