Novorossiya Governorate

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Novorossiya Governorate Новороссийская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1764–1783 1796–1802
Coat of arms
General-Governorate of New Russia in 1800
Capital	St Elizabeth Fort (1764) Kremenchug (1765–1776) Yekaterinoslav (Novorossiysk) (1776–1783)
Demonym	New Russian
History
• Established	22 March 1764
• First disestablishment	1783
• Reestablished	December 1796
• Disestablished	1802
Political subdivisions	provinces, uyezds
Preceded by Succeeded by 1764: New Serbia Slavo-Serbia Cossack Hetmanate Ukrainian defensive line 1796: Taurida Oblast Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty Voznesensk Viceroyalty 1775: Azov Governorate 1783: Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty 1802: Mykolaiv Governorate Taurida Governorate Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Today part of	Ukraine

Novorossiya Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1764–1783 and again in 1796–1802. It was created and governed according to the "Plan for the Colonization of New Russia Governorate" issued by the Russian Senate.^[1] It became the first region in Russia where Catherine the Great allowed foreign Jews to settle.^[1]

Most of its territories belonged to the Zaporozhian Sich as well as the Poltava Regiment and Myrhorod Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. Its establishment was strategically successful and advantageous for Russia, and after the conclusion of the Russian war against Turkey in 1774 it gave a way for Russia to access the Black Sea and establish an area that became known as Novorossiya ("New Russia"). It was created based on the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire against the Ottoman Empire and involved many military units from the region that were resettled in Ukraine. The military units included mounted cossacks (or hussars) and mounted pikers (or lancers).

In 1796, the governorate was reestablished, but with the centre not in Kremenchug but in Yekaterinoslav, and in 1802 was split into three governorates: the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, the Taurida Governorate, the Nikolayev Governorate (known as the Kherson Governorate from 1803).

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