Kaluga Governorate (Russian: Калужская губерния, romanized: Kaluzhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929. Its capital was Kaluga.
Administrative division
Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
- Borovsky Uyezd (Borovsk)
- Zhizdrinsky Uyezd (Zhizdra)
- Kaluzhsky Uyezd (Kaluga)
- Kozelsky Uyezd (Kozelsk)
- Likhvinsky Uyezd (Likhvin)
- Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd (Maloyaroslavets)
- Medynsky Uyezd (Medyn)
- Meshchovsky Uyezd (Meshchovsk)
- Mosalsky Uyezd (Mosalsk)
- Peremyshlsky Uyezd (Peremyshl)
- Tarussky Uyezd (Tarusa)
Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language.
References
Further reading
- William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kaluga", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library
