The
Podolia Governorate or
Government of Podolia was a governorate (
guberniyaA guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek...
) of the
Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
from 1793 – 1917. It was created after the
Second Partition of PolandThe Second Partition of Poland or Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1793 as the second of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795...
. It was situated at the southwestern border of the empire, bordering
Austria-HungaryAustria–Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the k.u.k. Monarchy, or Dual State, was a monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe...
, and had an area of about 42,000 km². The administrative centre was
Kamenets-PodolskiyKamianets-Podilskyi is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi...
until 1914 when it moved to
VinnytsiaVinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Buh River, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytskyi Raion within the oblast...
.
Podolia Governorate was one of the three governorates of the
Southwestern KraiSouthwestern Krai , also known as Kiev General Governorate or Kiev, Podolia and Volhynia General Governorate was, was a subdivision of the Imperial Russia that included much of the territory of modern-day Ukraine covering both banks of the Dnieper River.The Governorate General consisted of...
.
- By the Imperial census of 1897.
The
Podolia Governorate or
Government of Podolia was a governorate (
guberniyaA guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek...
) of the
Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
from 1793 – 1917. It was created after the
Second Partition of PolandThe Second Partition of Poland or Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1793 as the second of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795...
. It was situated at the southwestern border of the empire, bordering
Austria-HungaryAustria–Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the k.u.k. Monarchy, or Dual State, was a monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe...
, and had an area of about 42,000 km². The administrative centre was
Kamenets-PodolskiyKamianets-Podilskyi is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi...
until 1914 when it moved to
VinnytsiaVinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Buh River, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytskyi Raion within the oblast...
.
Podolia Governorate was one of the three governorates of the
Southwestern KraiSouthwestern Krai , also known as Kiev General Governorate or Kiev, Podolia and Volhynia General Governorate was, was a subdivision of the Imperial Russia that included much of the territory of modern-day Ukraine covering both banks of the Dnieper River.The Governorate General consisted of...
.
Language
- By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
{| align="center" class="wikitable plainlinks TablePager"
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! |Language
! |Number
! |percentage (%)
! |males
! |females
|-----
|
UkrainianUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet....
|2 442 819
|80.93
|
|
|-----
|
RussianRussian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe...
|98 984
|3.28
|
|
|-----
|Belorussian
|834
|0.03
|
|
|-----
|
PolishPolish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds basically to the Latin alphabet with a few additions...
|69 156
|2.29
|
|
|-----
|
CzechCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser extent, to Polish and Sorbian. - Official status :Czech is widely...
|886
|0.03
|
|
|-----
|
LatvianLatvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
|112
|<0.01
|
|
|-----
|
RomanianRomanian or Daco-Romanian is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia...
|26 764
|0.89
|
|
|-----
|
FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
|245
|0.01
|
|
|-----
|
GermanGerman is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by...
|4 069
|0.13
|
|
|-----
|Roma
|510
|0.02
|
|
|-----
|
YiddishYiddish is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world...
|369 306
|12.24
|
|
|-----
|
VoticVotic or Votian is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. It is closely related to Estonian and belongs to the Balto-Finnic subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two villages in the Kingisepp district, and is close to extinction...
|254
|0.01
|
|
|-----
|
MordvaThe Mordvinic languages are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language.Previously considered a single "Mordvin language",it is now treated as a small language family...
|136
|<0.01
|
|
|-----
|
CheremyshThe Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals...
|101
|<0.01
|
|
|-----
|
TatarThe Tatar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars.-Geographic distribution:Tatar is spoken in Russia , Central Asia, Ukraine, Poland, China, Finland and Turkey....
|2 296
|0.08
|
|
|-----
|
BashkirThe Bashkir language is a Turkic language.-Speakers:Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. Substantial number of the speakers also live in Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Samara and Kurgan Oblasts, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra, Tatarstan...
|1 113
|0.04
|
|
|-----
|
ChuvashChuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Republic of Chuvashia and adjacent areas...
|137
|<0.01
|
|
|-----
|Persons,
that did not identified
their native language
|73
|<0.01
|
|
|-----
|Other
|491
|0.02
|
|
|+
|}
Religion
- By the Imperial census of 1897.
{| align="center" class="wikitable plainlinks TablePager"
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! |Religion
! |Number
! |percentage (%)
! |males
! |females
|-----
|Eastern Orthodox
|2 358 497
|78.14
|
|
|-----
|
Old BelieversIn the context of Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon...
|18 849
|0.62
|
|
|-----
|Roman Catholics
|262 738
|8.70
|
|
|-----
|Lutherans
|3 815
|0.13
|
|
|-----
|
JudaismJudaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts...
|370 612
|12.28
|
|
|-----
|
MagometiansIslam Islam Islam ( al-’islām,
[There are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or , and whether the a is pronounced as in father, as in cat, or (when the stress is on the i) as in the a of sofa...]
|3 460
|0.11
|
|
|-----
|Other
|328
|0.01
|
|
|+
|}