Samara Governorate

Samara Governorate
Самарская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1850–1928
Coat of arms of Samara
Coat of arms

Location within the Russian Empire
CapitalSamara
Population 
• 1897
2,751,336
History 
• Established
1850
• Disestablished
14 May 1928

Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanizedSamarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.[1]

  1. ^ "Самарская губерния" [Samara Governorate]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St. Petersburg. 1900.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)