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The General Government of Galicia and Bukovina (Russian: Галицийское генерал-губернаторство) was a temporary Imperial Russian military administration of eastern parts of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria captured from Austria-Hungary during World War I.
General Government of Galicia and Bukovina Галицийское генерал-губернаторство Galitsiyskoye General-Gubernatorstvo | |||||||||
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| 1914–1917 | |||||||||
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 The General Government maximum extent during the Great War. | |||||||||
| Status | Military administration | ||||||||
| Capital | Lviv | ||||||||
| Common languages | Ukrainian and Polish | ||||||||
| Ethnic groups | Ukrainians, Poles, Rusyns. | ||||||||
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity (official), and Catholicism. | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Galicians | ||||||||
| Government | Military government | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 5 September 1914 – 14 July 1915 | Georgiy Bobrinsky | ||||||||
• 4 October 1916 – 31 May 1917 | Fyodor Trepov | ||||||||
• 22 April 1917 – 2 August 1917 | Dmytro Doroshenko | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia | 18 September 1914 | ||||||||
| 2 May – 22 June 1915 | |||||||||
| 14 July 1915 | |||||||||
• Abolition | 15 August 1917 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1910 | 8,025,675 (the whole Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) | ||||||||
| Currency | Russian ruble and Austro-Hungarian krone | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Poland  Ukraine  Romania | ||||||||
The administration was established after the Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia, led by the commander-in-chief Nikolai Ivanov in the late summer of 1914. It did not last long, and by mid-1915 Russians retreated after the Gorlice–Tarnów offensive led by the Central Powers overall commander August von Mackensen. During the later stages of the war, the Russian forces tried to reclaim the territory during the Brusilov and the Kerensky offensive. Even if de facto, it ceased to function after the Great Retreat in 1915, it was not formally abolished until 1917.
Military governors and krai commissars
edit- 5 September 1914 – 14 July 1915: Georgiy Bobrinsky
- 4 October 1916 – 31 May 1917: Fyodor Trepov, administrator of the governments of Ternopol and Chernovtsy
- 22 April – 2 August 1917: Dmytro Doroshenko, Krai commissar of the Russian Provisional Government
Administrative division
editThere were four governments (guberniya) that were divided into counties (uyezdy, locally - powiats).
External links
edit- World War I. Talerhof
- Талергофский Альманах [Talerhof Almanac] (in Russian). ukrstor.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013: in 4 volumes - 1914-1915; 1925; 1930; 1932
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Bakhturin, A. Yu. (2000). Политика Российской Империи в Восточной Галиции в годы Первой Мировой войны [The Politics of the Russian Empire in Eastern Galicia during the First World War] (in Russian). Archived from the original (DJVU) on 4 December 2013 – via malorus.ru/mnib.
- Oskin, M. Battle of Galicia. August 1914