Tobolsk Governorate

Tobolsk Governorate
Тобольская губерния (Russian)
Governorate of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Russian Republic and RSFSR (1917–1920)
1796–1920
Coat of arms of Tobolsk Governorate
Coat of arms

Location in the Russian Empire
CapitalTobolsk (1796–1919)
Tyumen (1919–1920)
Area 
• 1916
1,385,000 km2 (535,000 sq mi)
Population 
• 1897
1,433,043
History 
• Established
1796
• Disestablished
1920
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Tobolsk Viceroyalty
Oblast of Siberian Kirghiz
Tyumen Governorate
Tomsk Governorate
Akmolinsk Oblast
Oblast of Siberian Kirghiz
Today part ofRussia

Tobolsk Governorate (Russian: Тобольская губерния, romanizedTobol'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic and Russian SFSR located in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. It existed from 1796 to 1920; its seat was in the city of Tobolsk, and from 1919 to 1920, in the city of Tyumen.

Windmills in the Yalutorovsky uezd of the Tobolsk Governorate (1912). Color photo by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii.