Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

Governorates-General (генерал-губернаторство) were a type of administrative-territorial division in the Russian Empire from 1775 to 1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and oblasts. The term was occasionally used to refer to krais or military guberniyas. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

Description
Governorates-General were governed by governors-general, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General

 * Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg
 * Governorate-General of Moscow
 * Governorate-General of Azov
 * Belorussian Governorate-General (1775–1856)
 * Siberian Governorate-General (1802–1822)
 * East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1884), split
 * Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 – June 9, 1880) (Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok into city-port.
 * Amur Governorate-General (1887–1917)
 * Governorate-General of Irkutsk (1887–1917)
 * West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1882)
 * Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794–1912)
 * Governorate-General of Kiev (1832–1912), also known as the Southwestern Krai (Right-bank Ukraine)
 * Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno
 * Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802–1856)
 * Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802–1873)
 * Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851–1881)
 * General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
 * Baltic General Governorate
 * Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874–1917)
 * Russian Turkestan
 * Governor-Generalship of the Steppes
 * Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
 * Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland