| Vologda Governorate Вологодская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Soviet Russia | |||||||||
| 1796–1929 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Vologda | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• (1897) | 40,211.2 km2 (15,525.6 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• (1897) | 1,341,785 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 January 1929 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | uyezds: 10 (1918) | ||||||||
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Vologda Governorate (Russian: Вологодская губерния, romanized: Vologodskaya guberniya), also known as the Government of Vologda, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its administrative center was in the city of Vologda.
The area of the governorate is currently split between Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kirov, and Kostroma Oblasts, and the Komi Republic.
Vologda Governorate was officially created in 1796 from the disbanded Vologda Viceroyalty (namestnichestvo) which was split between Arkhangelsk Viceroyalty and Vologda Viceroyalty just before the new administrative reform.