Draft:Ivanovo-Voznesensk Governorate

Ivanovo-Voznesensk Governorate (Ivanovo Governorate) (Иваново-Вознесенская губерния) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union, which existed in 1918-1929.

The Governorate was formed on 20 June 1918 from the Kineshemsky and Yuryevetsky Uyezds in their entirety and 16 volosts of the Nerekhtsky Uyezd of the Kostroma Governorate, as well as the entire Shuysky Uyezd, 9 volosts of the Kovrovsky Uyezd and 6 volosts of the Suzdalsky Uyezd of the Vladimir Governorate. At the same time, 3 volosts were formed as part of the Kovrovsky Uyezd, which were transferred to the newly formed Governorate. For some time after its appearance, the new Governorate was called Ivanovo, but very quickly the name was changed to Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Mikhail Frunze became the first secretary of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk provincial committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), chairman of the provincial executive committee and the provincial economic council, who described the reasons for the creation of this province as follows: This region... represents a homogeneous economic whole, extremely closely connected in its parts by a whole network of all kinds of dependencies. It is the center of an extremely developed cotton industry.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee “On the formation on the territory of the Russian SFSR of administrative-territorial associations of regional and regional significance” dated 14 January 1929, Ivanovo-Voznesensk Governorate was abolished from 1 October 1929. The Ivanovo Industrial Oblast was formed (there is no such name in the resolution itself; the Zoning Commission under the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee was tasked with establishing the name of the region) with its center in the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, comprising, as the main body, Governorates of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Vladimir, Yaroslavl and Kostroma.

Population
According to the 1926 census, 1,195,800 people lived in the Governorate. The population was monoethnic – 99.3% were Russians. The urban population was 9.3%.

Population in 1926

Literature
Directory on the administrative-territorial division of the Ivanovo region. 1918—1965 / V. Vorobyov. - Yaroslavl: Upper Volga Book Publishing House,1965. – 124 p.