History
Volhynian Governorate was created on 12 December 1796 after all three partitions of Poland have occurred and included the rest of the Wolyn Voivodeship and Kowel Voivodeship. Until 1796 the gubernia was administrated as a namestnichestvo (Vice-royalty). Initially centered in Iziaslav it was called the Izyaslav namesnichestvo that was created mostly out of the Kiev Voivodeship and the eastern part of the Wolyn Voivodeship. In 1796 the administration temporarily relocated to Novograd-Volynsky, but because no buildings were found suited for administrative purposes the seat (capital) was moved again to Zhytomyr for a time being. In 1802 the city of Zhytomyr was finally bought out of the properties of Prince (knyaz) Ilyinsky and in 1804 it became officially the seat of the Volyn Governorate. From 1832 to 1915 together with Kiev Governorate and Podolie Governorate was part of the Southwestern Krai General-Governorate, a type of militarized administrative-territorial unit. In 1880s the general-governorate was extended and included also other governorates.
In 1897 the population of the gubernia was 2,989,482 and in 1905 – 3,920,400. Majority of the population of the governorate spoke in old Ukrainian language with slight variety of dialects.
During the Ukrainian–Soviet War Zhytomir served as the provisional capital of Ukraine in 1918.
After the Polish-Soviet war in 1920 and according to the Peace of Riga (1921) most of the territory became part of the Second Polish Republic and transformed into Wołyń Voivodeship with the capital in Łuck (Lutsk). The eastern portion existed to 1925 and later split into three okruhas Shepetivka Okruha, Zhytomyr Okruha, and Korosten Okruha.
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