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General Government of Galicia and Bukovina Галицийское генерал-губернаторство Galitsiyskoye General-Gubernatorstvo | |||||||||
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| 1914–1917 | |||||||||
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 The General Government maximum extent during the Great War. | |||||||||
| Status | Military administration | ||||||||
| Capital | Lviv | ||||||||
| Common languages | Ukrainian and Polish | ||||||||
| Ethnic groups | Ukrainians, Poles, Rusyns. | ||||||||
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity (official), and Catholicism. | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Galicians | ||||||||
| Government | Military government | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 5 September 1914 – 14 July 1915 | Georgiy Bobrinsky | ||||||||
• 4 October 1916 – 31 May 1917 | Fyodor Trepov | ||||||||
• 22 April 1917 – 2 August 1917 | Dmytro Doroshenko | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia | 18 September 1914 | ||||||||
| 2 May – 22 June 1915 | |||||||||
| 14 July 1915 | |||||||||
• Abolition | 15 August 1917 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1910 | 8,025,675 (the whole Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) | ||||||||
| Currency | Russian ruble and Austro-Hungarian krone | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Poland  Ukraine  Romania | ||||||||
The General Government of Galicia and Bukovina (Russian: Галицийское генерал-губернаторство) was a temporary Imperial Russian military administration of eastern parts of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria captured from Austria-Hungary during World War I.
The administration was established after the Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia, led by the commander-in-chief Nikolai Ivanov in the late summer of 1914. It did not last long, and by mid-1915 Russians retreated after the Gorlice–Tarnów offensive led by the Central Powers overall commander August von Mackensen. During the later stages of the war, the Russian forces tried to reclaim the territory during the Brusilov and the Kerensky offensive. Even if de facto, it ceased to function after the Great Retreat in 1915, it was not formally abolished until 1917.