Native Name: | Степное генерал-губернаторство |
Conventional Long Name: | Governor-Generalship of the Steppes |
Common Name: | Steppes |
Nation: | Russian Empire |
Subdivision: | Governorate |
Status Text: | Governor-Generalship of the Russian Empire |
Year Start: | 1882 |
Year End: | 1918 |
P1: | West-Siberian Governorate-General |
S1: | Alash Autonomy |
S2: | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, or General Government of the Steppes (ru|Степное генерал-губернаторство), was a portion of Imperial Russian Central Asia which included both much of modern Eastern and Central Kazakhstan (formerly known as the Kirghiz Steppe) and the region around Omsk, which was formerly part of western Siberia.
It consisted of four or five provinces: Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Turgai, Uralsk and from 1882 to 1899 Semirechensk, having a total area of 2240000km2 and a total population of 3,454,000 (both including Semirechensk) in 1897. Omsk was the capital.