Vologda Governorate

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Vologda Governorate
Вологодская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Soviet Russia
1796–1929
Coat of arms of Vologda
Coat of arms

Location in the Russian Empire
CapitalVologda
Area 
• (1897)
40,211.2 km2 (15,525.6 sq mi)
Population 
• (1897)
1,341,785
History 
• Established
1796
• Disestablished
14 January 1929
Political subdivisionsuyezds: 10 (1918)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Vologda Viceroyalty
Northern Krai

Vologda Governorate (Russian: Вологодская губерния, romanizedVologodskaya guberniya), also known as the Government of Vologda, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its administrative center was in the city of Vologda.

The area of the governorate is currently split between Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kirov, and Kostroma Oblasts, and the Komi Republic.

Vologda Governorate was officially created in 1796 from the disbanded Vologda Viceroyalty (namestnichestvo) which was split between Arkhangelsk Viceroyalty and Vologda Viceroyalty just before the new administrative reform.