Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty

The Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which was created on 26 March 1783 by merging Novorossiya Governorate and Azov Governorate. On 31 December 1796, it was incorporated into re-established Novorossiya Governorate.

Composition
The Viceroyalty was divided into counties known as uyezds. There were around 15 counties.

Former Novorossiysk Governorate

 * Poltava Province
 * Kremenchuk county (capital)
 * Kobelyaki county (previously Novye Sanzhary county)
 * Poltava county
 * Yelizavetgrad Province
 * Yelizavetgrad county
 * Olviopol county (previously Yekaterinine county)
 * Petrikovka county (previously Kryukov county)
 * Nikopol Province (previously Slaviansk Province)
 * Krivoy Rog county (previously Ingul county)
 * Nikopol county (previously Slaviansk county)
 * Novye Kodaki county (previously Saksangan county)
 * Kherson Province
 * Kazykermen county
 * Novopavlovka county
 * Kherson county

Former Azov Governorate (II)

 * Bakhmut county
 * Aleksandrovsk county (New Dnieper fortification line and portion of Kalmius Palatinate)
 * Yekaterinine county (Samar Palatinate)
 * Marienpol county
 * Natalkov county
 * Pavlov county (main part of Kalmius Palatinate)
 * Taganrog county
 * Tor county
 * Tsarychan county (Orel and Protovcha palatinates and Donets pikers regiment)

Governor-General (Viceroy)

 * 1783 — 05.10.1791 — Grigoriy Potemkin
 * 1793—1796 — Platon Zubov

Viceroyalty governors

 * 1783—1784 — Timofei Tutomlin
 * 1784—1788 — Ivan Sinelnikov
 * 1789—1794 — Vasiliy Kakhovskiy
 * 1794—15.12.1796 — Joseph Horvat