Governor-Generalship of the Steppes

Governor-Generalship of the Steppes Степное генерал-губернаторство
Governor-Generalship of the Russian Empire
1882–1918
Capital	Omsk
History
• Established	1882
• Disestablished	1918
Preceded by Succeeded by West-Siberian Governorate-General Alash Autonomy Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Today part of	Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Uzbekistan

Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, or General Government of the Steppes (Russian: Степное генерал-губернаторство), was a portion of Imperial Russian Central Asia which included both much of modern Eastern and Central Kazakhstan (formerly known as the Kirghiz Steppe) and the region around Omsk, which was formerly part of western Siberia.^[1]

It consisted of four or five provinces: Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Turgai, Uralsk and from 1882 to 1899 Semirechensk, having a total area of 2,240,000 square kilometres (860,000 sq mi) and a total population of 3,454,000 (both including Semirechensk) in 1897. Omsk was the capital.^[1]