Archangelgorod Governorate (Russian: Архангелогородская губерния, romanized: Arkhangelogorodskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, which existed from 1708 until 1780.
In the north, the governorate was limited by the White and Barents Seas.
[1][2] As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Archangelgorod Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.
[3] In terms of the modern political division of Russia, Archangelgorod Governorate comprised the areas of what is currently Murmansk Oblast, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic, the greater parts of Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblasts, as well as parts of the Republic of Karelia, Kostroma, Kirov, and Nizhny Novgorod Oblasts.
May 29], 1719, the governorate was divided into provinces: Archangelgorod, Vologda, Galich, and Ustyug.