• Source: Penza Governorate

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.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aleksandr Kuprin
• Oryol
• Penza Governorate
• Penza Oblast
• Lenin's hanging order
• Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
• Saransk
• Nikolay Beketov
• Saratov Governorate
• Tambov Governorate
• Mikhail Speransky
• List of governorates of the Russian Empire