Tobolsk Governorate
The Tobolsk (Russian Тобольская губерния / Tobolskaja Gubernija ) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in Western Siberia, which ranged from the southern steppe zone to the Ob river estuary. It resembles the modern Tyumen Oblast ( the autonomous districts of Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi included ). It bordered ( clockwise from the East ) to the following provinces and territories: Yenisejsk, Tomsk, Semipalatinsk, Akmolinsk, Orenburg, Perm, Vologda, Arkhangelsk. Capital was Tobolsk.
It had an area of 1,397,692 km ², of which 10,269 km ² water surface.
Tobolsk was traditionally administrative center in West Siberia, also founded in 1718 governorates Siberia. After the splitting of the province was founded in 1796 under that name. 1804 the government of Tomsk was split, with him it made 1822-1882 the General Western Siberia based in Omsk. Some areas in the southeast (especially Omsk and Petropavlovsk ) was split off in 1868 to form the area Akmolinsk.
Divided it was last in ten Ujesde (circles):
Statistics
In 1897, the province had 1,433,043 inhabitants.
Of these, 1,270,173 Russians, Tatars, 56 998, 37 769 Little Russians ( Ukrainians ) and 19,018 Ostyaks. Of the smaller indigenous peoples, there were 7,083 Zyryans, 4,790 and 4,450 Voguls Samoyed.
Agriculture (south of 57 ° 15'N ) and livestock are in the south, hunting for fur animals and fishing in the north, the main economic activity. Suitable for agriculture were 11,463,918 hectares, really built but only 2.5789 million hectares of oats, rye, wheat, barley, potatoes, buckwheat and flax also. Horses, cattle, sheep and pigs are bred in the south, reindeer and dogs in the north through lack of food, illness and snow storms went yearly basis a lot of cattle. The forest took over 25 % of the land and provided other than wood (especially for shipbuilding) tar, pine nuts and berries. The commercial activity was developed particularly in the southwest and delivered in 1897 goods to the value of 6,200,000 rubles. The domestic industry supplied ropes, furs, brandy, saddlery, rugs etc. The trade resulted from grain, stock-farming products, alcohol, tobacco products and fish.
Through the government was the Siberian tract and 77 km of railway line Yekaterinburg - Tyumen and 293 km of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Chelyabinsk - Omsk )