Penza Governorate
1780–1928 unit of Russia
| Penza Governorate Пензенская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1780–1928 | |||||||||
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 Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1897 | 36,408 km2 (14,057 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,470,474[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 15 September 1780 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 | ||||||||
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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.
Uyezds
Penza Governorate was subdivided into ten uyezds:
- Gorodishchensky Uyezd
- Insarsky Uyezd
- Kerensky Uyezd
- Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd
- Mokshansky Uyezd
- Narovchatsky Uyezd
- Nizhnelomovsky Uyezd
- Penzensky Uyezd
- Saransky Uyezd
- Chembarsky Uyezd
Demographics
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.[2]
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¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914.
² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
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