Governor-Generalship of the Steppes


The Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, or General Government of the Steppes, was a portion of Imperial Russian Central Asia which included both much of modern Eastern and Central Kazakhstan 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 and a total population of 3,454,000 in 1897. Omsk was the capital.