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.
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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