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Oblasts in the Russian Empire were considered to be administrative units and were included as parts of Governorates General or krais. [1] The majority of then-existing oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived.
Technically, the territorial-administrative reform started out in the Tsardom of Russia before the Imperial period. On December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, in order to improve the manageability of the vast territory of the state, Tsar Peter the Great issued an ukase (edict) dividing Russia into eight administrative divisions, called governorates (), which replaced the 166 uyezds and razryads ...
Map of governorates of the Russian Republic (Western part), 1917. This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive).
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Russia. See also list of Russian monarchs and list of heads of state of Russia.
0–9. Administrative divisions of Russia in 1708–1710; Administrative divisions of Russia in 1710–1713; Administrative divisions of Russia in 1713–1714
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Map of Tobolsk Viceroyalty from the official Atlas of the Russian Empire (1792) [1]. Tobolsk Viceroyalty (Russian: Тобольское наместничество, romanized: Tobol'skoye namestnichestvo) [2] [3] [4] was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) [5] of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1782–1796.