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Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya) of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1925; part of the Soviet Union since 1922). It included the territory of the right-bank Ukraine and was formed after a division of the Kiev Viceroyalty into Kiev and Little Russia Governorates in 1796. Its capital was in Kyiv. By the early 20th century, it consisted of 12 , 12 cities, 111 and 7344 other settlements. In 1923, it was divided into several and on 6 June 1925 it was abolished by the Soviet administrative reforms. Article from the Legal Encyclopedia. Volume 3, main editor Yuri Shemshuchenko, 2001 (in Ukrainian) Article from the Great Russian Encyclopedia. Volume 13, main editor Yury Osipov, 2009 (in Russian)
Three existing Left-bank Ukraine viceroyalties were merged into one Little Russia Governorate centered on Chernihiv, while the Kiev Governorate now centered on Right-bank Ukraine. With Kiev still the capital, the governorate included the right-bank parts of the former Kiev Viceroyalty merged with territories of the former Kiev VoivodeshipDespite the loss of Kiev almost three centuries earlier, Poland still designated an administrative unit centered in Zhytomyr as the Kiev Voivodeship and Bracław which were gained by the Russian Empire from the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (the lands of the Polish Crown province).Иван Фундуклей. "Статистическое описание Киевской Губернии", Часть I. Санкт-Петербург, 1852. (Ivan Fundukley. Statistical Description of Kyiv Governorate. St. Petersburg, 1852) The edict took effect on August 29, 1797, bringing the total number of uyezds to twelve.
On January 22, 1832, the Kiev Governorate, along with the Volhynia and the Podolia Governorates formed the Kiev Governorate General, also known as the Southwestern Krai. At the time, Vasily Levashov was appointed the Military Governor of Kiev as well as the General Governor of Podolia and Volhynia. In 1845, the population of the Governorate was 1,704,661.
At the turn of the 20th century, the governorate included twelve named by their centers: Berdychiv, Cherkasy, Chyhyryn, Kaniv, Kiev, Lypovets, Radomyshl, Skvyra, Tarashcha, Uman, Vasylkiv and Zvenyhorodka.
By the 1897 Russian Census, there were 3,559,229 people in the guberniya making it the most populous one in all of the Russian Empire. Киевская губерния and Киевская губерния (дополнение к статье) in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary Most of the population was rural. There were 459,253 people living in cities, including about 248,000 in Kiev. According to individuals' mother tongue, the census classified the respondents as follows: 2,819,145 Little Russians (Ukrainians) representing 79.2% of the population, 430,489 Jews representing 12.1% of the population, 209,427 Great Russians (Russians) representing 5.9% of the population, and 68,791 Polish people representing 1.9% of the population. The First General Census of the Russian Empire of 1897. Breakdown of population by mother tongue and districts* in 50 Governorates of the European Russia Demoscope Weekly, Institute of Demography at the National Research University "Higher School of Economics." The Russian census grouped "Little Russians" (Ukrainians), "Great Russians" (Russians) and "White Russians" (Belarusians) together for an all-"Russian" total of 3,034,961 By faith, 2,983,736 census respondents were Eastern Orthodox, 433,728 were Jews and 106,733 were of the Roman Catholic Church.The 1897 Russian Census classified the population by the responses to the questions on religion and mother tongue. See, e.g. Маргарита Григорянц, "Первый демографический автопортрет России" , Мир России, 1997, Т. VI, № 4, С. 45–48
The estimated population in 1906 was 4,206,100.
Kiev Governorate remained a constituent unit of the larger Governorate General with Kiev being the capital of both well into the 20th century. In 1915, the General Governorate was disbanded while the guberniya continued to exist.
| 279,695 |
| 315,823 |
| 274,704 |
| 268,860 |
| 541,483 |
| 211,825 |
| 315,629 |
| 251,257 |
| 245,752 |
| 320,744 |
| 307,542 |
| 225,915 |
| + Population by spoken language in Kiev Governorate (1897) |
| 79.2% |
| 12.0% |
| 5.8% |
| 1.9% |
| 0.4% |
| 0.1% |
| 0.09% |
| 0.05% |
| 0.02% |
| 0.1% |
The Soviet Ukrainian authority re-established the Governorate, whose leading post was titled the Chairman of the Governorate's Revolutionary Committee (revkom) or of the Executive Committee (ispolkom).
In the course of the Soviet administrative reform of 1923–1929 the Kiev Governorate of the Ukrainian SSR was transformed into six okruhas in 1923. In 1932, the Kyiv Okruha was transformed into an Kiev Oblast.
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