Kielce Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.
History It was created in 1841 from the Kraków Governorate, both with capital in Kelets (Кѣльцы). It was merged into Radom Governorate during the 1844 reorganisation that reduced the number of governorates to just five. In 1866/67 it was recreated in the further reforms that brought the administrative structure of Poland closer to that of the Russian Empire.
Administrative divisions The Kielce Governorate consisted of 7 uezds (their administrative centres in brackets): County County Town Area Population(1897 census) Transliteration name Russian Cyrillic Andreevsky Андреевский Andreev 78,889 Vloshchovsky Влощовский Vloshchov 74,437 Keletsky Келецкий Kyeltsy 142,754 Mekhovsky Меховский Mekhov 114,410 Olkushsky Олькушский Olkush 113,540 Pinchovsky Пинчовский Pinchov 107,495 Stopnitsky Стопницкий Stopnitsa 130,470
Language
By the Imperial census of 1897.Language Statistics of 1897 In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
+ Language Number percentage (%) males females Polish 666 772 87.5 323 858 342 914 Yiddish 83 017 10.89 40 528 42 489 Russian 7 983 1.04 6 506 1 477 German 2 428 0.31 1 224 1 204 Ukrainian 1 088 0.16 1 015 73 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 706 >0.1 568 138 Persons that didn't name their native language 1 >0.01 1 0 Total 761 995 100 373 700 388 295 +
References and notes
See also Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland