Steppe Governorate-General
| Stepp Governorate-General Степное генерал-губернаторство | |||||||||||
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| Governorate-General of Russian Empire | |||||||||||
| 1882–1918 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Omsk | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1882 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1918 | ||||||||||
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The Steppe Governorate-General (Russian: Степное генерал-губернаторство, romanized: Stepnoye general-gubernatorstvo), also known as the Steppe Krai was a Governorate-General of the Russian Empire located in the colonized territory the Kazakh Steppe and Western Siberia, covering the modern Kazakhstan, as well as parts of Kyrgyzstan and Russia. It consisted of four or five oblasts: Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Turgay, and Ural oblasts, and from 1882 to 1899 Semirechye Oblast, having the total area of 2,240,000 square kilometres (860,000 mi2) and the total population of 3,454,000 (both including Semirechensk) in 1897. Omsk was the capital.