Archangelgorod Governorate

Archangelgorod Governorate (Архангелогородская губерния) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, which existed from 1708 until 1780. Its seat was in Archangel (Arkhangelsk). The governorate was located in the north of the Russian Empire and bordered Siberia Governorate in the east, Kazan Governorate in the southeast, Moscow and Ingermanland Governorates in the southwest, Sweden (later independent Finland) in the west, and Norway in north-west. In the north, the governorate was limited by the White and Barents Seas.

Archangelgorod Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on, 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Archangelgorod Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.

In terms of the modern political division of Russia, Archangelgorod Governorate comprised the areas of what is currently Murmansk Oblast, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic, the greater parts of Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblasts, as well as parts of the Republic of Karelia, Kostroma, Kirov, and Nizhny Novgorod Oblasts.

On, 1719, the governorate was divided into provinces: Archangelgorod, Vologda, Galich, and Ustyug. Simultaneously, Yarensky Uyezd with the administrative center of Yarensk was moved from Siberia Governorate to Archangelgorod Governorate. The uyezds were transformed into districts, however, in 1727 the districts were transformed back into uyezds.

The governorate existed until 1780, when it was transformed into Vologda Viceroyalty.

Governors
The administration of the governorate was performed by a governor. The governors of the Arkhangelogorod Governorate were
 * 1708-1711 Pyotr Alexeevich Golitsyn
 * 1711-1714 Alexey Alexandrovich Kurbatov (vice-governor)
 * 1714-1725 Pyotr Yefimovich Lodyzhensky
 * 1725-1727 Ivan Petrovich Izmaylov
 * 1727-1728 Ivan Mikhaylovich Likharev
 * 1728-1729 Villim Fermor
 * 1729-1732 Semyon Fyodorovich Meshchersky
 * 1732-1732 Ivan Maksimovich Shuvalov
 * 1732-1738 Mikhail Yuryevich Shcherbatov (the father of Mikhail Shcherbatov)
 * 1738-1740 Andrey Litskin
 * 1740-1740 Pyotr Kalinovich Pushkin
 * 1740-1743 Alexey Andreyevich Obolensky-Bely
 * 1743-1745 Alexey Mikhaylovich Pushkin
 * 1745-1762 Stepan Alexeyevich Yuryev
 * 1762-1763 Grigory Filatovich Sukhotin
 * 1763-1780 Yegor Andreyevich Golovtsyn