Kamchatka Governorate

Kamchatka Governorate (Камчатская губерния) is an administrative-territorial unit of the RSFSR, which existed in 1922-1926. The center is the city of Petropavlovsk Port (since 1924 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky).

The province was formed on November 10, 1922, from the former Kamchatka region.

Divided into 6 districts: Anadyrsky, Chukotsky, Gizhiginsky, Okhotsky, Commander and Petropavlovsk.

History
In the mid-1920s, administrative-territorial reform began to be carried out in the USSR. According to it, counties and volosts were everywhere replaced by districts.

The Kamchatka Gubernia Committee began preparatory work on the zoning of the Kamchatka province in the second half of 1925, as preparations were already underway for administrative-territorial transformations in the Far East. On October 7, 1925, at a meeting of the Kamchatka Provincial Revkom, a project for zoning the Kamchatka province was considered. The territories of the 14 former volosts that had formed by that time in the Kamchatka Okrug were taken as the basis for the new administrative-territorial formations. They were only in the former Petropavlovsk district - 9 volosts.

On January 4, 1926, the province was liquidated and transformed into Kamchatka Okrug. Its territory became part of the Far Eastern Territory.

Literature

 * Russian Far East during the 1917 revolutions and civil war. —Vladivostok, 2003