Podolia Governorate
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The Podolia Governorate or Government of Podolia, set up after the Second Partition of Poland, comprised a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1793 to 1917, of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921, and of the Ukrainian SSR from 1921 to 1925.
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[edit] Location
The Podolian Governorate occupied the southwestern frontier of the former Russian empire, bordering Austria-Hungary, and had an area of about 42,000 km². The administrative centre was Kamenets-Podolskiy until 1914 when it moved to Vinnytsia.
Podolia Governorate was one of the three governorates of the Southwestern Krai administration. In 1917 it was recognized[by whom?] to be governed by the General Secretariat of Ukraine as the representative of the Russian Provisional Government.
[edit] Administrative division
Until 1918 the governorate consisted of 12 uyezds:
- Balta uyezd
- Bratslav uyezd
- Vinnitsia uyezd
- Gaysin uyezd
- Kamenets uyezd
- Letichev uyezd
- Litin uyezd
- Mogilev uyezd
- Olgopol uyezd
- Proskurov uyezd
- Ushytsa uyezd
- Yampol uyezd
In 1918 four more Bessarabian uyezds were added:
- Khotin uyezd
- Soroka uyezd
- Orgiyev uyezd
- Beltsy uyezd
[edit] Principal cities
Russian Census of 1897:
- Kamenets/Podolsky - 35 934 (Jewish - 16 112, Ukrainian - 9 755, Russian - 7 420)
- Vinnitsa - 30 563 (Jewish - 11 456, Ukrainian - 10 862, Russian - 5 206)
- Balta - 23 363 (Jewish - 13 164, Russian - 5 385, Ukrainian - 4 124)
- Proskurov - 22 855 (Jewish - 11 369, Ukrainian - 4 425, Russian - 3 483)
- Mogilev/Dnestr - 22 315 (Jewish - 12 188, Ukrainian - 6 512, Russian - 2 668)
- Zhmerinka - 12 908
- Khmelnik - 11 657 (Jewish - 5 979, Ukrainian - 5 375, Polish - 150)
[edit] Smaller cities
- Bar - 9 982 (Jewish - 5 764, Ukrainian - 3 332, Russian - 485)
- Litin - 9 420 (Jewish - 3 828, Ukrainian - 3 047, Russian - 2 126)
- Gaysin - 9 374 (Jewish - 4 322, Ukrainian - 3 946, Russian - 884)
- Olgopol - 8 134 (Ukrainian - 4 837, Jewish - 2 465, Russian - 625)
- Bratslav - 7 863 (Jewish - 3 275, Ukrainian - 2 608, Russian - 1 782)
- Letichev - 7 248 (Jewish - 4 105, Ukrainian - 1 719, Polish - 741)
- Yampol - 6 605 (Ukrainian - 3 282, Jewish - 2 819, Russian - 275)
- Novaya Ushytsa - 6 371 (Jewish - 2 214, Russian - 2 120, Ukrainian - 1 836)
- Staraya Ushytsa - 4 176 (Ukrainian - 2 488, Jewish - 1 584, Polish - 57)
- Salnitsa - 3 699 (Ukrainian - 2 758, Jewish - 899, Polish - 19)
- Verbovets - 2 311 (Ukrainian - 1 282, Jewish - 661, Polish - 326)
[edit] Language
The Imperial census of 1897[1] produced the following statistics. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language. In 1897 3,018,299 people lived in the governorate of Podolia.
| Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 2 442 819 | 80.93 | ||
| Yiddish | 369 306 | 12.24 | ||
| Russian | 98 984 | 3.28 | ||
| Polish | 69 156 | 2.29 | ||
| Romanian[2] | 26 764 | 0.89 | ||
| German | 4 069 | 0.13 | ||
| Tatar | 2 296 | 0.08 | ||
| Bashkir | 1 113 | 0.04 | ||
| Other[3] | 3 706 | 0.12 | ||
| Persons who did not identify their native language |
73 | <0.01 |
The cities had 221,870 inhabitatnts, comprising about 7.35% of the total population. About 46.06% of the urban population consisted of Jews, 32.54% - Ukrainians, 15.03% - Russians, and 4.90% - Polish.
[edit] Religion
The Imperial census of 1897[4] reported:
| Religion | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Orthodox | 2 358 497 | 78.14 | ||
| Judaism | 370 612 | 12.28 | ||
| Roman Catholics | 262 738 | 8.70 | ||
| Old Believers | 18 849 | 0.62 | ||
| Other[5] | 7 603 | 0.25 |
- Religious structures
- Churches
- Eastern Orthodox 1645
- Roman Catholic (kosciol) 202
- Lutheran 4
- Monasteries
- Eastern Orthodox 7 (male), 4 (female)
- Synagogues 89
- other Shul(s) 438
- Mosque(s) 1
[edit] References
- ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (Russian)
- ^ including Moldavian language
- ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000
- ^ Religion Statistics of 1897 (Russian)
- ^ Religions, number of believers which in all gubernia were less than 10000
[edit] See also
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