Erivan Governorate
Erivan Governorate (Old Russian: Эриванская губернія; ; ) was one of the guberniyas of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Erivan (present-day Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometres. It roughly corresponded to what is now most of central Armenia, the Iğdır Province of Turkey, and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan. At the end of the 19th century, it bordered the Tiflis Governorate to the north, the Elisabethpol Governorate to the east, the Kars Oblast to the west, and Persia and the Ottoman Empire to the south.

In 1828, the khanates of Erivan and the Nakhichevan were annexed from Persia by the Russian Empire in accordance with the Treaty of Turkmenchay. They were included into a single administrative unit named the Armenian Oblast. In 1850 the oblast was reorganized into a governorate, and by 1872, it consisted of seven uyezds. Louis Joseph Jérôme Napoléon (1864–1932), grandnephew of Napoleon I, was made governor in 1905 to help calm the governorate after the Armenian-Tatar conflicts.

Administrative division

Erivan Governorate consisted of the following uyezds:

Demographics
According to the Russian census of 1897, the Erivan Governorate had 829,556 inhabitants. 56% of the governorate's population were Armenians, 37.5% was Tatars (modern Azerbaijanis). The Azerbaijanis were in a majority in the Erivan, Nakhichevan, Sharur-Daralagyoz, and Surmali districts; the other three uyezds were predominantly Armenian. Other ethnic minorities included Kurds (5.9%), Russians (2.1%), as well as smaller numbers of Assyrians, Greeks, Georgians, Jews, Poles, and Gypsies.

Ethnic groups in 1897 
Ethnic groups in Erivan Governorate according to 1897 Russian census.

Governors 
List of the governors of Erivan Governorate.
1849 - 1859 Ivan Nazarov
1860 - 1862 Mikhail Astafev
1862 - 1863 Nikolai Kolyubakin
1863 - 1865 Aleksey Kharitonov
1869 - 1873 Nikolai Karmalin
1873 - 1880 Mikhail Roslavlev
March 22, 1880 - December 22, 1890 Mikhail Shalikov
February 2, 1891 - November 16, 1895 Alexander Frese
February 20, 1896 - 1916 Vladimir Tiesenhausen
1905 Louis Joseph Jérôme Napoléon
1905 - 1906 Maksud Alikhanov-Avarskiy
1916 - 1917 Arkady Strelbitskiy
March 14, 1917 - November 1917 V.A. Kharlamov
November 1917 Avetis Agaryan
1917-1917 Sokrat Tyurosyan