Samara Governorate

Samara Governorate
Самарская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1850–1928
Coat of arms

Location within the Russian Empire
CapitalSamara
Population 
• 1897
2,751,336
History 
• Established
1850
• Disestablished
14 May 1928

Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanizedSamarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.