Penza Governorate
| Penza Governorate Пензенская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1780–1928 | |||||||||
Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1897 | 36,408 km2 (14,057 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 1,470,474 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 15 September 1780 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 May 1928 | ||||||||
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Penza Governorate (Russian: Пензенская губерния, romanized: Penzenskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1780 to 1797 and again from 1801 to 1928; its capital was in Penza.