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In 1781, during the administrative reform of Catherine the Second of the Little Russian province, the Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversk governorships were formed on lands that were once part of the Chernigov (in the 11th-13th centuries) and the Great Lithuanian (in 1401-1503) principalities (after the liquidation of the old administrative units - Nizhyn, Starodub and Chernigov regiments). The Chernigov governorship consisted of 12 districts, Novgorod-Severskoye - of 11. In the history of Left Bank Ukraine and southwestern Rus', this region was called Severshchyna. Under Peter the Great, during the first provincial reform in 1708, the local lands were included in the vast Kyiv province. After the withdrawal from its composition in 1728, the lands transferred to the Belgorod province (Belgorod, Oryol, Sevsk provinces) became part of the Kyiv province, which retained the former Administrative division on the shelves, 10 regiments remained, including Starodubsky, Poltava, Chernigovsky and others, which under Catherine the Second (in 1764) formed the Little Russian province with the administrative center, first in the city of Glukhov, then in Kozelets and, finally, in Kyiv.

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Military 3rd layout of the 1880s.
military 3 layout - topographic military b/w map of the province filmed in the 1880s and printed in the early 1900s. Scale 1cm=1260 m. Map b/w, detailed.

Special survey (1800s)
The survey map is a non-topographical (it does not indicate latitudes and longitudes), hand-drawn map of the last decades of the 18th century, very detailed. Boundary plans for this province were not drawn and general surveying was not carried out; it began to be surveyed in the 1830-40s and is available for digitization on order only in the form of later plans for dachas, and then probably not for the entire territory.

Lists of populated places in the Chernigov province in 1866
This is a universal reference publication containing the following information:
- status of a settlement (village, hamlet, hamlet - proprietary or state-owned, i.e. state);
- location of the settlement (in relation to the nearest highway, camp, well, pond, stream, river or river);
- the number of households in a settlement and its population (the number of men and women separately);
- distance from the district town and camp apartment (camp center) in versts;
- presence of a church, chapel, mill, etc.
The book contains 196 pages plus additional information.

With the accession of Paul the First, the Chernigov governorate was reorganized into the Little Russian province of 20 povets (districts): Novgorod-Seversky, Starodubsky, Chernigov, etc. by merging the lands of the former Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky governorships. Under Alexander the First in 1802, by dividing it into two parts, the Little Russian province was again reorganized into the Chernigov province (at the same time, the Poltava province was separated from the Little Russian province). Subsequently, the Chernigov province consisted of 15 districts of approximately equal size, the largest of which was Kozeletsky, and the smallest - Konotop.

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Province Russian Empire, located on the territory of modern Left Bank Ukraine.

Formed in 1802 as a result of the division of the Little Russian province into Chernigov and Poltava. It was located between 50°15" and 53°19" N latitude. and 30°24" and 34°26" E.

The territory of the Chernigov province is 52,396 km 2, population is 2,298,000 (according to the 1897 census); including 1,525,000 (66.4%) Ukrainians.

In 1919, 4 northern districts with a mixed Russian-Belarusian population were transferred to the Gomel province of the RSFSR, and in 1923-1926 they were transferred to the Bryansk province.

In 1925, the Chernigov province was liquidated, and its territory became part of the Glukhov, Konotop, Nezhin and Chernigov districts of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1932, the Chernigov region was formed on the main part of the territory of the former Chernigov province.

From " Encyclopedic Dictionary F. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron" 1890-1907: located between 50°15" and 53°19" north latitude and 30°24" and 34°26" east longitude; has the shape of a quadrangle, widened in the south, with a chipped upper left corner. The northern and southern borders of the province have an outline that is closer to straight, almost parallel lines; the mentioned cutout in the upper part of the western border corresponds to two main breaks eastern borders s, giving clippings from its territory and from this side of it. The historical formation of the northern and eastern borders dates back to the 17th century, when borders were established between the Lithuanian-Polish state and the Moscow state on the one hand and the Little Russian Republic that arose on the left side of the Dnieper, which have not changed to this day; here the Chechen province borders on the Mogilev and Smolensk provinces from the north and on the Oryol and Kursk provinces from the east. The southern border - with a small section of the Kharkov province and with a long strip of Poltava - was established in 1802, when the existing late XVIII V. The provinces of Novgorod-Seversk, Chernigov and Kiev were divided into two - Chernigov and Poltava. Most of the western border of the Ch. province (for 258 versts) is the Dnieper, separating it from the Kyiv and Minsk provinces, and the lower reaches of the Dnieper tributary, Sozh (at a distance of 90 versts), separating it from the Mogilev province. The greatest length of the Ch. province in the direct direction from its northeastern corner near the city of Bryansk to the southwestern corner near the city of Kiev is more than 350 versts, the smallest width of its area in the direction from west to east, in the interception between the Mogilev and Oryol provinces is less than 100 verst. The area of ​​Ch. province, according to detailed general and special land surveying carried out in 1858-1890. according to the exact and finally approved boundaries of land holdings, it is 4,752,363 dessiatinas or 45,622.3 square meters. versts. This figure is the most accurate, although it differs from that calculated by Mr. Strelbitsky on the 10-verst map of Russia (46,047 sq. versts), since it was obtained by summing up the tithes of 18,678 dachas, measured according to actual boundaries and, moreover, minus the areas allocated, according to the definitions of the committee ministries of 1889 and 1894, to the territory of the Kyiv and Mogilev provinces. For the 15 districts into which the Chechen province is divided, according to this calculation its area in square meters. km, sq. versts is divided as follows:

1. Surazhsky-4050.5 sq. km / 3559.3 sq. miles

2. Mglinsky-3694.4 sq. km / 3246.4 sq. miles

3. Starodubsky-3420.8 sq. km / 3006.0 sq. miles

4. Novozybkovsky - 3857.3 sq. km / 3389.6 sq. miles

5. Gorodnyansky - 4061.9 sq. km / 3569.3 sq. miles

6. Chernigovsky-3667.2 sq. km / 3222.5 sq. miles

7. Sosnitsky - 4079.7 sq. km /3585.0 sq. miles

8. Novgorod-Seversky - 3790.5 sq. km /3330.8 sq. miles

9. Glukhovskaya - 3090.8 sq. km / 2716.0 sq. miles

10. Krolevetsky - 2702.9 sq. km /2375.1 sq. miles

11. Konotop -2539.8 sq. km / 2231.8 sq. miles

12. Borzensky -2732.1 sq. km /2400.8 sq. miles

13. Nezhinsky -2891.8 sq. km / 2541.1 sq. miles

14. Kozeletsky - 4952.8 sq. km / 2594.7 sq. miles

15. Ostersky -4385.7 sq. km / 3853.9 sq. miles

Province total: 53918.2 sq. km / 45622.3 sq. miles

Geography. The location of the Ch. province on the left side of the Dnieper determines the structure of its surface: since the highest points of the eastern slope to the Dnieper are in the Smolensk, Oryol and Kursk provinces, that is, on the watershed ridges of the Volga, Oka and Don basins from the Dnieper basin, then all Snow and rain, and therefore swamp waters across the area of ​​Ch. province are directed from the northeast and east to the southwest and west. The highest point of its surface is in the northeastern part, on the border of Mglinsky and Starodubsky districts near the village of Rakhmanova - 109 fathoms (764 feet) above sea level, the lowest near the village of Vishenki on the border of the Poltava province, below Kyiv - 42.8 fathoms (300 feet). If we divide the entire area of ​​Ch. province by a line from the town of Churovichi at the protruding corner of the Mogilev province to the city of Konotop, then the part of it lying to the northeast of this line will occupy spaces with a height of 60 and 75 to 100 fathoms above sea level; in the southwestern part, surface domes rising above 75-80 fathoms are only rarely found (near Gorodnya, Sosnitsa, Berezny, Sednev, Chernigov, Kobyzhcha, Losinovka and on the southeastern border with Romensky and Prilutsky districts of Poltava province); other elevated areas of this part lie at an altitude of 60 fathoms and above, and near the valleys of the Dnieper, Desna and Ostra they fall below 50 fathoms. With such a surface arrangement, pools main rivers, flowing into the Dnieper and its tributaries, are located as follows: the entire Surazhsky district and half of the Mglinsky district belong to the Besed and Iput basins, flowing into the Sozh; most of Novozybkovsky and Gorodnyansky districts are located in the basin of the Snovi River, which flows into the Desna; the eastern parts of Mglinsky and Starodubsky districts - in the basin of the Sudost, another right tributary of the Desna; Novgorod-Seversky and parts of Glukhovsky, Krolevetsky, Sosnitsky, Borzensky, Chernigovsky and Ostersky districts - in the basin of the Desna River and its small tributaries; parts of Glukhovsky, Krolevetsky and Konotop districts - in the basin of the Seim, the left tributary of the Desna; parts of Borzensky, Nezhinsky and Kozeletsky districts - in the basin of the Ostra, the second large tributary of the Desna; finally, the southernmost strip of the province, consisting of the southern parts of the counties of Konotop, Borzen, Nizhyn, Kozeletsky and Ostersky, is located in the basins of the rivers Romna, Uday, Supoya and Trubaila, directing their waters from here to the territory of the Poltava province and belonging to the basins of the Sula and Dnieper rivers . Shipping and navigation exist only on the Sozh and Dnieper along their entire length across the territory of the province and on the Desna from Novgorod-Seversk to Kyiv; In spring, rafting of forest materials is also carried out along the other rivers listed above. There are 150-200 small tributaries of the latter. The watersheds between the indicated areas of the river basins have the same character everywhere: the more elevated ridges in their eastern and southern parts lie on the right banks of the rivers, to the valleys of which they form steeply descending slopes, and more gentle slopes, extending for tens of miles, go to the west and north to the valley of the next river, forming two or three terraces, more or less hilly in their relief, or a smoother plateau. Since the basis of the mainland of the Ch. province is made up of detachments of the Upper Cretaceous, Lower Tertiary and Upper Tertiary geological formations, and the first is found only in outcrops of the northeastern part of the province, the second - in the form of the Paleogene - predominates in the strip lying between Starodub, Gorodnya and Konotop, and the latter occupies the entire the southwestern part of the territory of the province, then this determines the composition of the continent from certain soils. Loess, clayey calcareous-loamy deposits with layers of white-eye and erratic boulders made it possible to form the best clayey and chernozem soils with ravines, ravines and “sinkholes” with steep walls; Ocher-yellow and gray sands, as well as greenish (glauconitic) sands with sandstones suitable for millstones, kaolin and, in some places, molded clays occurring among them, make up the second type of soil on the day surface. Both the first and the second represent thick layers several fathoms deep on the territory of the Chechen province. The chalk formation, found in the northern zone of the province (along Besed and Iput), as well as along the Sudost and Desna to the borders of Sosnitsky district, produces worse soils, but stores reserves of chalk, quicklime, and phosphorites, which are used in as a fertilizer; The thickness of the outcrops of this formation on the steep banks of the Desna is also very high (for example, at Rogovka and Drobysh - 100 feet). There are, of course, along the banks of large rivers and soils of coarse sand, marshy and peat formations of later periods - the Quaternary era. Since clayey soils make up more elevated areas, they are primarily found on the right banks of rivers; Thus, in the Surazhsky district they stretch, albeit in a narrow strip (10-15 versts), almost along the entire right bank of the Iput, and are also found on the right side of the Besed; They occupy a wider space (25, 50, even 70 versts) on the right side of Sudost in Mglinsky and Starodubsky districts, where they also produce black soil fields, quite widely spread and extending at Brakhlov and Topali into the eastern part of Novozybkovsky district; in the same way they accompany the right side of the Desna (20-30, 35 versts wide), in the direction from Novgorod-Seversk to Sosnitsa and Chernigov, and also in intermittent spots and the right bank of the Snovi - near Churovichi, Gorodnya, Tupichev. Here, places with clayey almost chernozem and completely chernozem soil, in contrast to the sandy spaces overgrown with forest that surround them, are called “steppes,” i.e., as if in miniature form, resembling the “steppe” that lies on the other side of the Desna and connects with chernozem fields Poltava province. This Zadessensky “steppe” (separated by a strip of Pridessensky sands, occupying a wide space opposite Novgorod-Seversk and then narrowing) is also not continuous, for it is interrupted by strips of sandy soils located near the Seima, Uday, Ostra, Trubaila and Dnieper rivers opposite Kyiv. These sections of it represent special types of chernozem and dark loamy soils: in Glukhovsky and partly Krolevets districts, chernozem is located on dome-shaped hills, spreading widely and reminiscent of the “steppes” of the middle part of the province; in Zadesenye of the Chernigov district, merging with the northern parts of Nezhinsky and Kozeletsky districts and representing a fairly flat plateau, the soils can rather be called heavy loam, requiring three times plowing, than chernozem. These soils, according to their classification by Chernigov zemstvo statisticians, are called “gray”; They also named the smooth black earth fields of the northern parts of Kozeletsky, Nezhinsky and Borzensky districts; only the southernmost parts of these counties, and especially Borzen and Konotop, are classified by them as “typical” chernozem, which, according to Dokuchaev’s classification of Poltava soils, is marked IA and B. With this location throughout the territory of Ch., the province has hard clay soils, loose sandy and gray sandy lands distributed over vast areas, especially in its northern part. Thus, they occupy the entire Surazhsky district, except for the designated spots of clay soils, the western outskirts of Mglinsky and its eastern strip beyond Sudost, the entire area of ​​Novozybkovsky district, with the exception of the above spots, the southwestern part of Starodubsky, the vast expanses of Novgorod-Seversky on both sides of the Desna, Sosnitsky and Gorodnyansky (with the exception of the “stepki”) and a wide strip of the Dnieper coast in Gorodnyansky, Chernigov and Oster districts. The latter is occupied by sandy soils on both sides of the Desna almost entirely, except for a small southwestern section of it adjacent to the Poltava province. In the southern (Zadesenskaya) part of the province, sands are inferior in their prevalence to denser clayey gray and chernozem soils, occupying only strips above existing and extinct rivers, where they are mixed with silty and peaty swamps, called “lepeshniki”, “mlak” , "galovs" and just swamps. Similar swamps are found in the northern part of the province, where they form so-called “hot spots” around them, which is why the worst low soils in the Ch. province are usually called “hot spots”. In the southern part of the province, among the chernozem fields on hollows that have no drainage, the place corresponding to the foothills of the northern wooded part is occupied by “salt licks” - also the worst type of soil. The location of depressions and salt licks, as well as peaty bogs, can be somewhat determined in short essay listing the location of marshy places throughout the province. In the Sozh basin, i.e. Surazhsky district, among the large swamps, Kazhanovskoye can be mentioned, which contains large deposits of the “underground tree” of forests that once grew here, and Lake Dragotimel. In the Sudost basin there are Nizhnevskoe, Andreikovichskoe and Grinevskoe swamps in Starodubsky district; The Snov River flows from the Ratovsky swamp and then, in its middle course, forms the Irzhavskoye swamp. In Gorodnyansky district, the Zamglai swamp, 55 versts long and up to 6-7 versts wide, represents a special basin, the waters of which flow in different directions, flowing in the south-southeast into the Desna, and in the west-northwest into the Dnieper; The Smolyanka swamp in Nezhinsky district has almost the same character, the waters of which flow on one side into the Oster River, and on the other they connect next to the “gal” with the waters of the Desna; The Khimovsky swamps in the same district, during the spring flood of melting snow, also carry their waters to the Uday system, connecting with the Doroginsky swamps, and to the Oster River system. In the basin of the latter one can count up to a dozen small swamps, and along the Desna - up to one and a half dozen in Kralevets, Sosnitsky and Borzen districts; the largest of them are Daughter, Smolazh, Galchin. Along the course of the Dnieper in Gorodnyansky district there is a large swamp called Parystoe, and in Ostersky there are Vydra, Mesha, Mnevo, Vistula and up to 10 smaller ones. Finally, on Trubayla or Trubezh, like a dying river, on both sides of the “virs”, i.e. channels, there is a rather large peat bog, along which, from the station railway Zavorich to the border of the Poltava province, the provincial zemstvo, under the leadership of council member A.P. Shlikevich, carried out drainage work from 1895 to 1899. A 28-verst-long canal built through this swamp improved hayfields in the adjacent areas; The canal dug earlier by a private individual on the opposite side of the Desna from Chernigov, near the village of Anisova, had the same significance. Other swamps remain in a primitive state and are considered inconvenient lands, like “nekosi”. Forests are in the same situation; they are cut down not with the aim of returning new thickets to the logs, but with the aim of converting a certain part of their area into arable and hayfields. On average, 11-13 thousand dessiatines of forests are cut down per year; and since, according to survey data, there were 1,113,811 dessiatines of forest in the entire province, it turns out that about 1% of the forest area is cut down per year and, therefore, with the right forestry system, it would be possible to forever provide the inhabitants of the province with local construction, ornamental and firewood materials. If, due to existing operation forest spaces, to consider forests, pastures and all other lands, uncultivated and considered inconvenient, as the spare area of ​​the Ch. province, arable and cultivated estates as food area, and hayfields and pastures as fodder, then according to survey data of 1860-1890. the following space of these 3 areas will be obtained for the entire province:

Food - 2485386 acres, or 52.3%

Fodder - 906,880 dessiatines, or 19.1%

Reserve - 1360097 dessiatines, or 28.6%

Total: 4752363 dessiatines, or 100.0%

Four southern counties (Kozeletsky, Nezhinsky, Borzensky and Konotopsky) are distinguished by the predominance of food area, which occupies 65-72% of them; The most wooded and at the same time grassy districts are Surazhsky, Gorodnyansky, Sosnitsky and Ostersky, in which the feeding area is 22-24%, and the reserve area is 35-40%. The distribution of land in the remaining 7 districts is more or less close to the average for the province. The forest cover of the Konotop district is expressed as 8.2%, so it is completely steppe and, having relatively better chernozem soil, is considered the breadbasket of the Czech province. The best hay is collected on flooded, but not wet meadows ("rums") along the middle reaches of the Desna in Sosnitsky and Borzensky districts, from where it is exported in compressed form to England. The best forests are scattered in areas in the possessions of the treasury and a few enlightened large forest owners, whose forestry, reforestation and afforestation have reached the highest perfection.

Information about climate is extremely scarce. From 10-year meteorological observations carried out since 1885 in the city of Nizhyn, it is clear that in this city the winter temperature is determined to be -6.5°, spring +6.8°, summer +18.5° and autumn +6.9 °; the average temperature in January is -8°, and in July +20.1°; The first matinees are observed on average around September 21, and the last around May 11; the average opening time of Ostra is April 3 (new style), and its freezing occurs between November 6 and 27; out of 365 days of the year, 239 are completely free from frost, and days with temperatures below zero are 126; The cases of the greatest annual temperature change over 11 years gave an absolute maximum figure of +34.9° in July and -29.6° in December. The months of February and December give the greatest variability in air pressure, but greatest number winds (especially southwest) occur in April and May; cloudiness and raininess is expressed by 55 quite clear days throughout the year, 118 rainy days and 566 mm of precipitation per year, with a predominance of precipitation and rainy days in June and July and with an average rainfall of 4.7 mm per rain. Observations for slightly shorter periods than 10 years, carried out in the village of Krasnoye Kolyadin, Konotop district, in the cities of Chernigov and Novozybkov, show that the average annual temperature in the northern part of the province is 1° less than in Nezhin (5.4° instead of 6. 6°), and that the annual amount of precipitation nowhere falls below 500 mm, indicate that Ch. province should be classified as a zone of central Russia, and not to the south, where there are more clear days and the annual temperature reaches 9-10°. Only can the southernmost part of the province be called belonging to Southern Russia, which is also evident from the time of freezing and breaking up of the rivers: while the Desna near Novgorod-Seversk opens on average on April 5 and freezes on December 3, remaining ice-free for 242 days, the Dnieper near Kiev opens on March 27, and freezes on December 19, remaining ice-free for 267 days, i.e. 2 weeks more.

Flora Part of the province, depending on the indicated soil properties and climate, also represents transitions from the types of vegetation of the southern steppe region to the flora of the Central Russian taiga zone. In the northern counties there are also spruce and pine forests, occupying significant areas; in the south, hard species of oak, ash, maple, hornbeam, birch bark and hazel shrubs predominate. The southern border of the distribution of spruce and juniper runs in the middle of Ch. province; therefore, in the northern counties, spruce is only a species subordinate to pine, mixed with birch, aspen, linden, sedge, alder, rowan and those shrubby, semi-shrubby and herbaceous plants, the symbiosis of which is characteristic of pine forests (broom, wild rosemary, cranberry, stoneberry, lingonberry, heather, fern, hops, reeds and blueberries). Pine is found everywhere, that is, in the south, but it, like its other forest comrades, occupies here the left terraces of the rivers, sandy, while their steeply rising right banks with solid soil are covered not with “pine forest”, but with “oak groves.” with hardwood deciduous forests; In addition to reeds, low places in river valleys are overgrown with willow, alder, birch, viburnum, and vines, and in this case they are called “islands.” Just like the forest and herbaceous vegetation of the northern and southern parts of the province are of two types: while in the south in the treeless steppe such lean bristly grasses as wheatgrass, typets, tonkonog and in fields abandoned for a long time even tyrsa or feather grass predominate - in in the northern wooded part, as well as along the river valleys making their way into the steppe region, meadow and marsh grasses predominate: Poa, festuca, phleum, briza, dactylis, trifolium, ranunculus, plantago, lychis, rumex, fragmites calamagrostes, scirpi and moss sphagnum, hypnum, etc. The same diversity that characterizes the flora of Ch. province can be seen in the fauna. Of the wild animals to which the Middle Ages were devoted to extermination, in the northern part of the province one still occasionally comes across representatives of the taiga zone, such as beaver, elk, lynx, goat, wild boar, and veksha, and on the other hand, in its steppe part one also encounters characteristic of representatives of more southern regions include havrashki (gophers), boibaks, jerboas, thoras, etc. The kingdom of birds also produces the forest cuckoo, steppe rooks, and eagles; The fish of the Ch. province are all warm-water, that is, characteristic of waters that are significantly heated in the spring: both migratory, coming from the sea to the Dnieper basin only to spawn, and those constantly living in it - the same as in other river basins the Black Sea, and out of 57 species, 30 of them are those that live in Europe east of the Rhine; in the spring they disperse from the Dnieper to all its tributaries, and with the fall of the waters they remain in swamps, puddles, vira, old women, sagas and flood holes, separated from the main channel. Migratory birds and fish temporarily staying in the waters of Ch. province (storks, cranes, geese, sterlets, sturgeons, etc.) are the same as in the rest of Russia....

This map of the Chernigov province, created in 1821, is included in "Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland", which includes 60 maps of the Russian Empire. The atlas was compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Pyadyshev and serves as evidence of how carefully and thoroughly maps were compiled by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the 19th century. The map shows settlements(seven types depending on size), postal stations, monasteries, factories, taverns, roads (four types), state, provincial and district borders. Distances are indicated in miles; verst was a Russian unit of length equal to 1.07 kilometers, and has now fallen into disuse. Conventions and geographical names are given in Russian and French. The territory depicted on the map is currently located in the northeastern part of Ukraine and the southwestern part of Russia. Chernigov, probably founded in the 9th century, was one of the most important cities and cultural centers in the era Kievan Rus, from the beginning of the 11th to the beginning of the 13th centuries. Sometimes the Chernigov princes competed with the Kyiv grand princes. IN early XIII century, Chernigov was plundered by the Mongols under the leadership of Khan Batu, after which the city lost its former status and influence. Lithuania later fought for control of the region. Moscow State, Poland and the Crimean Khans. In the 17th century, the Zaporozhye Sich (Cossack hetmanate) achieved more significant political independence, associated with its historical role in protecting the southern border lands from Tatar raids. At the same time, the hetmanate enjoyed broader powers only at the local level, remaining an object of manipulation by larger neighboring powers. In an effort to protect his lands from the Poles, Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky turned to the Russian Tsar and in 1654 concluded the Pereyaslav Treaty on a military alliance with the Moscow state. As a result of the ensuing Russian-Polish War, the Treaty of Andrusovo (1667) was concluded, which actually divided the hetmanate into Left-Bank and Right-Bank Ukraine, located on the opposite banks of the Dnieper. The population of Left Bank Ukraine, which became the center of the Chernigov province as part of the Russian Empire, was more Russified and Orthodox than the inhabitants of the Catholic Right Bank Ukraine which came under Polish control. Initially, the Zaporozhian Army was granted temporary autonomy, but the Russian tsars increasingly infringed on its independence. In 1764, Catherine the Great finally abolished the hetman's power, and by 1775 the hetmanate was disbanded.

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Chernigov province is a province of the Russian Empire, located on the territory of modern Left Bank Ukraine. Formed in 1802 as a result of the division of the Little Russian province into Chernigov and Poltava. It was located between 50°15" and 53°19" N latitude. and 30°24" and 34°26" E.

The territory of the Chernigov province is 52,396 km2, population is 2,298,000 (according to the 1897 census); including 1,525,000 (91.8%) Little Russians.

In 1919, 4 northern districts with a mixed Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian population were transferred to the Gomel province (since 1926 they were part of the Bryansk province of the RSFSR).

In 1925, the Chernigov province was liquidated, and its territory became part of the Glukhov, Konotop, Nezhin and Chernigov districts of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1932, the Chernigov region was formed on the main part of the territory of the former Chernigov province.

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