Northwestern Krai

Northwestern Krai

Northwestern Krai (Russian: Северозападный край) was a subdivision (krai) of Imperial Russia in the territories of the present day Belarus and Lithuania. Together with the Southwestern Krai it formed the Western Krai. It included the following six guberniyas:

From 1870 to 1912, Grodno, Vilna, and Kovno Governorates were constituted as the Governor-General of Lithuania with its seat in Vilna.

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