Murmansk Governorate was a short-lived administrative division (a guberniya

Guberniya

A guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire usually translated as government, governorate, or province. Such administrative division was preserved for sometime upon the collapse of the empire in 1917. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin ,...

) established by the White

White movement

The White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...

 government on the Kola Peninsula

Kola Peninsula

The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast...

 in Russia

Russia

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.

The governorate was established on February 2, 1920 by the Resolution of the Provisional Government of the Northern Oblast

Northern Oblast (1918-1920)

Northern Oblast was a territory in the northwest of Russia controlled by the White movement during the Russian Civil War. Its administrative center was Arkhangelsk....

. It included Alexandrovsky

Alexandrovsky Uyezd

Alexandrovsky Uyezd was an administrative division of Arkhangelsk Governorate of the Russian Empire and later of the Russian SFSR.The origins of Alexandrovsky Uyezd trace back to Kolsky Uyezd, which existed on this territory since the early 16th century until , 1858, when Tsar Alexander II...

 and Kemsky Uyezds of Arkhangelsk Governorate

Arkhangelsk Governorate

Archangelsk Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Arkhangelsk...

 and parts of Olonets Governorate

Olonets Governorate

The Olonets Governorate or Government of Olonets was a guberniya of north-western Imperial Russia, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded W. by Finland, N. and E. by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and S. by Novgorod and St. Petersburg...

. The governorate proved to be short-lived—the Soviet power on the Kola Peninsula was restored on February 21, 1920, and on March 16, 1920 by the Order No. 44 of the Arkhangelsk Governorate Revolutionary Committee Murmansk Governorate was formally abolished effective February 21. Alexandrovsky and Kemsky Uyezds were restored in their 1917 borders.