Astrakhan Governorate
Astrakhan Governorate (Russian: Астраханская губерния, romanized: Astrakhanskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1717 to 1929.
| Astrakhan Governorate Астраханская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire (1717–1917), Russian Republic (1917), and RSFSR (1917–1928) | |||||||||
| 1717–1928 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Astrakhan | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 215,848.3 km2 (83,339.5 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,003,542 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Proclaimed from Kazan Governorate | 3 December [O.S. 22 November] 1717 | ||||||||
• Bolshevik administrative reform | 21 May 1928 | ||||||||
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It was created from separating the southwestern part of Kazan Governorate by Peter I's reform in 1717 and abolished by the Bolshevik's administrative reform in 1928, where the governorate becoming part of Lower Volga Oblast (later Lower Volga Krai). The administrative center of the governorate was Astrakhan.
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