Black Sea Governorate

Black Sea Governorate Черноморская губернія
Governorate
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Black Sea Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1849
Abolished	1917
Capital	Novorossiysk
Area
• Total	6,675.68 km2 (2,577.49 sq mi)
Population  (1916)
• Total	178,306
• Density	27/km2 (69/sq mi)
• Urban	46.39%
• Rural	53.61%

The Black Sea Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, established in 1896 on the territory of the Black Sea Okrug [ru] of the Kuban Oblast. The administrative center of the governorate was the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. In 1905, the population of the governorate was approximately 70,000 and its area was 6,455 square versts (7,346 km²; 2,836 sq mi), making it the smallest Russian governorate by both measures.^[1] The governorate ceased to exist when the Black Sea Soviet Republic was established on its territory in the spring of 1918—later the governorate was incorporated into the Kuban-Black Sea Oblast of the Russian SFSR in March 1920.

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