title: Kaluga Governorate
text: # Kaluga Governorate
  
  Kaluga Governorate (1796–1929) was a governorate of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Kaluga.
  
  ## Administrative division
  
  Kaluga Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
  
  * Borovsky Uyezd (Borovsk)
  * Zhizdrinsky Uyezd (Zhizdra)
  * Kaluzhsky Uyezd (Kaluga)
  * Kozelsky Uyezd (Kozelsk)
  * Likhvinsky Uyezd (Likhvin)
  * Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd (Maloyaroslavets)
  * Medynsky Uyezd (Medyn)
  * Meshchovsky Uyezd (Meshchovsk)
  * Mosalsky Uyezd (Mosalsk)
  * Peremyshlsky Uyezd (Peremyshl)
  * Tarussky Uyezd (Tarusa)
  
  ## Demographics
  
  At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kaluga Governorate had a population of 1,132,843. Of these, 99.4% spoke Russian, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Belarusian and 0.1% German as their native language.
  
  