| Penza Governorate Пензенская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of theRussian Empire | |||||||||
| 1780–1928 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1897 | 36,408 km2 (14,057 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,470,474[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 15 September 1780 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 | ||||||||
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Penza Governorate (Russian:Пензенская губерния,romanized: Penzenskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of theRussian Empire andRussian SFSR, located in theVolga Region. It existed from 1780 to 1797 and again from 1801 to 1928; its capital was inPenza.
Penza Governorate was subdivided into tenuyezds:
At the time of theRussian Empire Census of 1897, Penza Governorate had a population of 1,470,474. Of these, 83.0% spokeRussian, 12.8%Mordvin, 4.0%Tatar, 0.1%Ukrainian and 0.1%Polish as their native language.[2]
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