Uyezds

Subject / Topography/Administrative - territorial division
UYEZDS, adm. and territorial units in Rus from the 13th century uniting several volosts and governed by Governors General. In the 15th – 16th centuries, in the course of rise of the united Russian State, they became the core link of the territorial structure. From the early 17th century, U. were headed by voivodes. The reform of 1708 withdrew U. from the adm. division system and restored only in 1727, with province becoming a higher level, next to gubernia. In the reform of 1775, provinces were canceled; instead, Governor Generalships were instituted, and gubernias that were subdivided into U. The uyezd administration was headed by the ispravnik. After several changes in the late 18th and early 19th century, a stable adm./territorial division was established up to the early 20th century, according to which, U. became parts of gubernias or oblasts. In 1864, the zemstvo reform instituted local self-government authorities: uyezd zemstvo assembly and uyezd zemstvo council. After 1917, U., with a changed administration system, were retained as the middle link of adm./territorial division. They were abolished by the first Soviet reform of adm./territorial division in 1923-29 and replaced with “areas” and districts. In Novgorod lands, the uyezd system coexisted with the pyatina structure until the early 18th century. In the late 15th – 16th centuries, the area of current Leningrad Oblast was occupied by lands of eight U.: Novgorod, Ivangorod, Yam, Korela, Koporye, Orekhov, and Ladoga. As a result of the territorial losses and devastation of the early 17th century, only Novgorod and Ladoga U. remained there. In the 19th – early 20th century, the area of current Leningrad Oblast belonged to St. Petersburg, Gdov, Luga, Novaya Ladoga, Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Shlisselburg, and Yamburg U. of St. Petersburg Gubernia; Vyborg and Kexholm U. of Vyborg Gubernia; Novgorod, Tikhvin, and Ustyug U. of Novgorod Gubernia, and Lodeynoye Pole, Olonets, and Petrozavodsk U. of Olonets Gubernia. Yegorov, Sergey Borisovich
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Gdov Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Ivan-Gorod Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Vyborg Gubernia/Keksgolm Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Koporye Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Korela Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Ladoga Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Olonets Gubernia (Province)/Lodeynoye Pole Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Luga Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Novgorod Gubernia (Province)/Novgorod Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Novoya Ladoga Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Olonets Gubernia (Province)/Olonets Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Orekhov Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Peterhof Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Olonets Gubernia (Province)/Petrazavodsk Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Sankt-Peterburg Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Shlisselburg Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Novgorod Gubernia (Province)/Tikhvin Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Tsarskoye Selo Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Novgorod Gubernia (Province)/Ustyuzhensky Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Vyborg Gubernia/Vyborg Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Yam Uyezd
Historical Toponyms/Saint Petersburg Gubernia, the/Yamburg Uyezd
Ерошкин Н.П. История государственных учреждений дореволюционной России. М., 1983.