Penza Governorate ( Russian : Пензенская губерния , romanized : Penzenskaya guberniya ) was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya ) of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR , located in the Volga Region . It existed from 1780 to 1797 and again from 1801 to 1928; its capital was in Penza .
5-499: Penza Governorate was subdivided into ten uyezds : At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Penza Governorate had a population of 1,470,474. Of these, 83.0% spoke Russian , 12.8% Mordvin , 4.0% Tatar , 0.1% Ukrainian and 0.1% Polish as their native language. 53°12′00″N 45°00′00″E / 53.2000°N 45.0000°E / 53.2000; 45.0000 This Russian history –related article
10-525: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Russian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uyezd An uezd (also spelled uyezd ; Russian: уе́зд ( pre-1918 : уѣздъ) , IPA: [ʊˈjest] ), or povit in a Ukrainian context ( Ukrainian : повіт ) was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow , the Tsardom of Russia ,
15-564: The Russian Empire , the Russian SFSR , and the early Soviet Union , which was in use from the 13th century. For most of Russian history, uezds were a second-level administrative division . By sense, but not by etymology, uezd approximately corresponds to the English " county ". Originally describing groups of several volosts , they formed around the most important cities. Uezds were ruled by
20-503: The appointees ( namestniki ) of a knyaz and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas . In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great , dividing Russia into governorates . The subdivision into uyezds was abolished at that time but was reinstated in 1727, as a result of Catherine I 's administrative reform . By the USSR administrative reform of 1923–1929, most of
25-514: The uezds were transformed into raions (districts). In UkSSR , uezds were reformed into forty okruhas which were the primary-level of administrative division from 1925 to 1930. In the Baltic governorates the type of division was known as Kreis. The uezds of Bessarabia Governorate were called Ținut or Județ in Romanian , which would translate as "county". The Ukrainian word for uezd
#301698