Arkhangelsk Province

The Arkhangelogorod province was formed in the north of the European part of Russia by decree of Peter I of December 18 (29), 1708 ^[1] . The administrative center of the province was the city of Arkhangelsk .

Arkhangelogorsk province in 1708

Formally, there were no counties in the created provinces - they were divided into cities to which the neighboring lands were subordinate.

20 cities were assigned to the Arkhangelogorod province:

1. City of Arkhangelsk (modern name - Arkhangelsk )
2. Vaga (now the city of Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk region)
3. Vologda
4. Galich (now Galich, Kostroma region)
5. Kevrol (it is believed that was somewhat away from the village of Kevrol Pinezhsky district of the Arkhangelsk region.)
6. Kineshma (now in the Ivanovo region)
7. Kologrivov (now the city of Kologriv, Kostroma region)
8. Kola Ostrog (now the city of Kola, Murmansk region)
9. Mezen (now in the Arkhangelsk region)
10. Parfenyev (now the village of Parfenyevo, district center of the Parfenyevsky district of the Kostroma region)
11. Pustozerskoy Ostrog (now the city of Pustozersk disappeared, was not far from the modern city of Naryan-Mar of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
12. Salt Vychegodskaya (now the city of Solvychegodsk, Arkhangelsk region)
13. Salt Galitskaya (now Soligalich, Kostroma region)
14. Suday (now in the Chukhloma district of the Kostroma region)
15. Totma (now the city of Totma, Vologda region)
16. Ustyansky volosts (a group of settlements along the Northern Dvina, now in the Arkhangelsk region)
17. Unzha (now in the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region)
18. Ustyug the Great (now the city of Veliky Ustyug, Vologda Region)
19. Charonda (now in the Kirillovsky district of the Vologda region)
20. Chukhloma (now in the Kostroma region)

By decree of Peter I of January 28 ( February 8 ), 1715 , the province was divided into new administrative-fiscal units - shares . At the head of each share was a landrat .

May 29 ( June 9 ), 1719 the province was divided into 4 provinces:

1. Arkhangelsk Province , the center - Arkhangelsk
2. Vologda Province Center - Vologda
3. Galician province , the center - Galich
4. Ustyug Province , center - Veliky Ustyug

When the provinces were divided into provinces, the Charondskaya share was renamed into a district and transferred to the Belozersky province of the St. Petersburg province , and the Yarensky district , which was previously in the Siberian province, was assigned to the Ustyug province of the Arkhangelogorod province ^[2] .

After the province was divided into provinces , new districts were introduced instead of shares (the name "counties" continued to be used in official documents, despite their official abolition). The head of the district was the Zemstvo commissioner , in which the clerk and three mailers were members. In 1727, all districts were renamed into counties , and the province began to be divided into provinces and counties.

In November 1775, the division of provinces into provinces was abolished ^[3] .

The Arkhangelogorod province was divided into 18 counties: Vazhsky , Vologda , Galitsky , Dvinsky , Kevrolsky , Kologrivsky , Kola , Mezensky , Parfenyevsky , Pustozersky , Soligalitsky , Solvychegodsky , Sudaysky , Totemsky , Unzhensky , Ustyuzhsky , Uljuzhsky , Chuzhsky .

In 1778, the counties of the former Galician province became part of the Kostroma and Unzhen regions of the Kostroma governorate .

On January 25, 1780, the Arkhangelogorod province was abolished. Instead, the Vologda Viceroyalty was formed, which included three regions: Arkhangelsk , Vologda and Velikoustyuzh regions.

But already in March 1784 the Arkhangelsk governorate was allocated, and in 1796 the Arkhangelsk province was formed - much smaller in territory than the Arkhangelsk province.

• General geographic map representing the Arkhangelsk province divided into its provinces / Soch. Acad. Science Adjunct J.F. Schmid ; Cutout. E. Khudyakov. (2nd frame) Grid. I. Kuvakin. - (St. Petersburg): Acad. Science: (1773). - 1 l.: Engraving. Coloring .; 44x56 (65x82) and 44.5x56 (58x68)

• Administrative and territorial division of the Arkhangelsk province in the XVIII — XX centuries.