Kaluga Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.Постановление ВЦИК от 14.01.1929 «Об образовании на территории Р. С. Ф. С. Р. административно-территориальных объединений краевого и областного значения» Its capital was Kaluga.
Administrative division Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses): Borovsky Uyezd (Borovsk) Zhizdrinsky Uyezd (Zhizdra) Kaluzhsky Uyezd (Kaluga) Kozelsky Uyezd (Kozelsk) Likhvinsky Uyezd (Likhvin) Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd (Maloyaroslavets) Medynsky Uyezd (Medyn) Meshchovsky Uyezd (Meshchovsk) Mosalsky Uyezd (Mosalsk) Peremyshlsky Uyezd (Peremyshl) Tarussky Uyezd (Tarusa)
Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language. Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей
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