Kherson province

On October 8, 1802, by decree of the Senate, the Novorossiysk province was divided into the Ekaterinoslav , Nikolaev and Tauride provinces. Kherson district became part of the Nikolaev province .

On May 15, 1803, by decree of Alexander I and the Senate No. 20760, the center and the provincial administration from Nikolaev were transferred to Kherson and the province became known as Kherson. The province existed until 1922, then part of it became Mykolayiv . In 1803-1873, the province was part of the Novorossiysk Governor General .

The territory of the province entered the " Pale of Settlement ." German and Jewish agricultural colonies were created.

In 1865, a zemstvo was created, from April 28 to May 4, the first provincial zemstvo assembly took place ^[1] .

Kherson province was among 17 regions recognized as seriously affected during the famine of 1891-1892 .

Before the revolution of 1917, significant administrative and territorial changes in the Kherson region did not occur. On January 28, 1920, the All-Ukrainian Council of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the division of the Kherson province into Kherson and Odessa. Nikolaev became the center of the Kherson province. In December 1920, the Kherson province was renamed Nikolaev. Kherson became the county town of Nikolaev province. In 1922, the Odessa and Nikolaev provinces were combined into the Odessa province.

In 1923, the Odessa province was divided into 6 districts, including the Kherson district with its center in Kherson.

In 1930, a new administrative-territorial reform was carried out. The Kherson district was liquidated, and the Kherson rural district was transferred to the department of the Kherson city Council of Workers' Deputies. In September 1937, Nikolaev was separated from the Odessa region.

On March 30, 1944, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR “On the Formation of the Kherson Region as a Part of the Ukrainian SSR” , the Kherson Region was created, in connection with which the city of Kherson and Beloozersky, Berislavsky, Veliko-Aleksandrovsky, Golopristansky, Gornostaevsky, Kalanchaksky were allocated , Kalinindorf, Kakhovsky, Novo-Vorontsovsky, Skadovsky, Kherson, Tsyurupinsky and Chaplinsky areas. By the same decree, the Arbuzinsky, Blagodatnovsky, Bratsky, Veselinovsky and Voznesensky districts isolated from the Odessa region of the Ukrainian SSR were included in the Nikolaev region.

Initially, the province was divided into 4 districts: Elisavetgradsky , Tiraspolsky , Olviopolsky and Kherson , and since July 1806 into 5: Alexandria , Elisavetgradsky, Olviopolsky, Tiraspolsky and Khersonsky. In 1825, Odessa County was created from parts of Kherson and Tiraspol counties. In 1828, the Olviopol and Elisavetgrad counties were abolished and Bobrinets Uyezd was created on their basis. In 1834, Tiraspol district was divided into 2 parts and a new Ananyevsky district was created . In 1865, the administration of Bobrinetsky district was transferred to Yelisavetgrad and the county was renamed Yelisavetgrad.

Governors ^[2]

Provincial leaders of the nobility

Vice Governors

National composition in 1897 ^[3] :

• ESBE: Kherson province
• Library Tsarskoye Selo, books on the history of the Kherson province (Commemorative books)
• Lists of the inhabited places of the Kherson province 1868 (jpg) (unavailable link from 30-08-2018 [363 days])
• Map of the Kherson province from the Atlas of A. A. Ilyin in 1876 (viewed on the Google engine on runivers.ru)
• Province on a three-armed military topographic map of European Russia (automated viewing with modern maps and space images)
• Sapozhnikov I.V. , Sapozhnikova G.V. Zaporizhzhya and Black Sea Cossacks in Hadzhibey and Odessa (1770-1820s). - Odessa, 1998. (pdf)