Odesa Governorate

Odesa Governorate (Ukrainian: Одеська губернія, romanized: Odeska huberniia), was a territorial division of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine) that was created in January 1920 by a decision of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (Soviet regime). The new governorate was initially created from the western part of the Kherson Governorate (which was later renamed Mykolaiv Governorate, and then merged with the rest of Odesa Governorate).

Odesa Governorate Одеська губернія
Governorate of Ukrainian SSR
1920–1925
Capital	Odesa
History
• Split of Kherson Governorate	1920
• Moldavian ASSR	1924
• abolished (Okruhas of Ukraine)	1 August 1925
Preceded by Succeeded by Kherson Governorate Mykolaiv Governorate Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Odesa Okruha Mykolaiv Okruha Kherson Okruha Zynovyevsk Okruha Pershomaisk Okruha

The western parts of the Odesa Governorate would serve as the foundation for the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.^[1]

Odesa Governorate was dissolved during the administrative reform of 1925.

Subdivisions

A governorate was divided into counties (Russian uezd; Ukrainian povit).

• Ananiv county (1920–21)
• Balta county (1920–23)
• Voznesensk county
• Odesa county
• Pershomaisk county
• Tiraspol county

Former Mykolaiv Governorate

• Dnipro county
• Yelyzavetgrad county
• Mykolaiv county
• Kherson county

References

1. Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926 - 1936. Cornell University Press. 2003. pp. 57–. ISBN 978-0-8014-4029-8. Retrieved 23 April 2013.