Minsk Governorate

The Minsk province (Russian Минская губерния / Minsk Gubernija ) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire.

It was in the west of the country, in the central part of present-day Belarus. Limited it was from the following provinces (from north clockwise): Vitebsk, Mogilev, Chernigov, Kiev, Volhynia, Grodno and Vilna.

It had an area of ​​91407.6 km ², was capital Minsk.

Made it was re-established in 1793 after the partitions of Poland of Lithuanian parts of the Kingdom of Poland and after a short period of belonging to the governorship of Belarus in 1796 with smaller area extensions. 1843 there was an exchange of territory, where some areas were submitted to Disna and Wilejka to Vilnius and Minsk got for the area of Grodno to Novogrudok. The government lasted until 1921, according to the territorial reorganization within the Byelorussian SSR.

In 1900 the province was divided into nine Ujesdy (circles):

  • Bobruisk ( weißruss. Bobruisk )
  • Borisov ( weißruss. Borisov )
  • Igumen (now Tscherwen )
  • Minsk
  • Mosyr ( weißruss. Mazyr )
  • Novogrudok ( weißruss. Nawahradak )
  • Pinsk
  • Retschiza ( weißruss. Retschyza )
  • Sluzk

Statistics

According to the 1897 census lived 2,147,621 inhabitants in the province. Of these, 1,633,091 White Russians, 343,466 Jews, 83,999 Russians, 64,617 Poles and 10,069 Little Russians ( Ukrainians ); in addition, there were also smaller groups of Tatars, Germans and Latvians.

The population was mainly occupied with agriculture and animal husbandry. The harvest yielded 1903 425.434 tons of rye, 194 584 tonnes of oats, 73 685 tonnes of barley, 32 153 tonnes and 869 764 tonnes of buckwheat potatoes. The livestock was 1903 945.000 head of cattle, 740,000 sheep ( including 57,000 fine wool ), 660,000 pigs, 36,400 goats, and 375,000 horses. Fruit production was limited to apples, pears, plums and cherries. The industry employed 1897 395 establishments with 8,884 workers and had a production value of 21.2 million rubles. In the first place the 155 distilleries were with a production value of 14 million rubles. This is followed by flour mills, sawmills, and other Zündhölzerfabriken.

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