Kiev Governorate
Kiev Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on , 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Kiev Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities. The original territory was roughly based on the "Siever land" surrounded by Smolensk, Moscow, and Azov Governorates.