Semirechye

{{Infobox former subdivision | native_name = Семиреченская область''Semirechyenskaya oblast| conventional_long_name = Semirechyenskaya Oblast | common_name = Semirechyenskaya Oblast | subdivision = Oblast | nation = Russia | status_text = | capital = Verniy | latd = | latm = | latNS = | longd = | longm = | longEW = | year_start = 1867 | date_start = 23 July | year_end = 1924 | date_end = 27 October | event_start = | event_end = | image_flag = | image_coat = Coat_of_Arms_of_Semirechye_Province.png | image_map = Map of Semirechensk Oblast, 1913.gif | flag_type = | flag = | p1 = Oblast of the Siberian Kirghiz | flag_p1 = Flag of Russia.svg | p2 = Khanate of Kokand | flag_p2 = Flag of the Turkestan (Kokand) Autonomy.svg | s1 = Turkestan ASSR | flag_s1 = Turkestan Autonomous SSR Flag.svg | s2 = | flag_s2 = | today = KazakhstanKyrgyzstan | demonym = }} The Semirechyenskaya Oblast''' was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire. It corresponded approximately to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan. It was created out of the territories of the northern part of the Khanate of Kokand that had been part of the Kazakh Khanate. The name "Semirechye" ("Seven Rivers") itself is the direct Russian translation of the historical region of Jetysu. Its site of government was Verniy (now named Almaty). The Russian government seized the Semirechyenskaya region in 1854, and created the province the same year. It was administered as part of Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (before 1882 it was known as the Governor-Generalship of the Western Siberia) between 1854 and 1867 and again between 1882 and 1899, and part of Russian Turkistan between 1867 and 1882 and again between 1899 and 1917. Russian control of the region was recognized by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) between Russia and China On April 30, 1918 the region became part of the Turkestan ASSR.