Ufa Governorate

Ufa Governorate
Уфимская губерния (Russian)
Governorate of the Russian Empire (1865–1917), Russian Republic, Russian State (1918), and RSFSR (1918–1922)
1865–1922
Coat of arms of Ufa
Coat of arms

Location within the Russian Empire
CapitalUfa
Area 
• (1897)
122,005 km2 (47,106 sq mi)
Population 
• (1897)
2,220,497
History 
• Established
1865
• Disestablished
14 June 1922
Political subdivisionsuezds: 6
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Orenburg Governorate
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Russian State
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Bashkiria

Ufa Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire with its capital in the city of Ufa. It was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Governorate. On June 14, 1922 the governorate was transformed into the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. It occupied an area of 122,005 square kilometres (47,106 sq mi) and the territory of governorate was divided to six uyezds.
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