General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
The General Government of Galicia and Bukovina (Russian: Галицийское генерал-губернаторство) was a temporary Imperial Russian military administration of eastern parts of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria captured from Austria-Hungary during World War I.
The administration was established after the Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia, led by the commander-in-chief Nikolai Ivanov in the late summer of 1914. It did not last long and by mid-1915 Russians retreated, following the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive led by the Central Powers overall commander August von Mackensen. During the later stages of the war, the Russian forces tried to reclaim the territory during the military operations of Brusilov and Kerensky.
Military governors and krai commissars
- September 5, 1914 – July 14, 1915: Georgiy Bobrinsky
- October 4, 1916 – May 31, 1917: Fyodor Trepov, administrator of the governments of Ternopol and Chernovtsy
- April 22 – August 2, 1917: Dmytro Doroshenko, Krai commissar of the Russian Provisional Government
Administrative division
There were four governments (guberniya) that were divided into counties (uyezdy, locally - powiats).
- Lvov Governorate
- Ternopol Governorate
- Chernovtsy Governorate
- Peremyshl Governorate
External links
- World War I. Talerhof
- Талергофский Альманах [Talerhof Almanac] (in Russian). ukrstor.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013: in 4 volumes - 1914-1915; 1925; 1930; 1932
- Bakhturin, A. Yu. (2000). Политика Российской Империи в Восточной Галиции в годы Первой Мировой войны [The Politics of the Russian Empire in Eastern Galicia during the First World War] (in Russian). Archived from the original (DJVU) on 4 December 2013 – via malorus.ru/mnib.
- Oskin, M. Battle of Galicia. August 1914