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)
Viceroyalty governors
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
References
See also Yekaterinoslav Governorate