15.679. of Catherine II on March 6, 1783, by transforming the Kolyvan Oblast,[6][7] separated in 1779 as part of the Tobolsk Governorate.

15.733 established the center of the governorate in the Berdsky ostrog and renamed it to the city of Kolyvan.

[8][7] The Kolyvan Viceroyalty included in its composition the entire district of the Kolyvano - Voskresenskikh factories,[9] and the entire almost southern part of present-day Western Siberia, so that the Tobolsk Viceroyalty and Kolyvan Viceroyalty extended almost parallel, one in the northern and middle, the other along the southern strip of Siberia.

[10][11] In 1783 Jacobi Ivan Varfolomeevich was transferred to the post of governor-general of the Irkutsk Viceroyalty and Kolyvan Viceroyalty and reported to the Senate No.15.857 on October 23, 1783, about opening of Kolyvan Governorate on July 28, 1783.

[12] In the "Russian Atlas, consisting of forty-four maps and dividing the empire into forty-two governorships" (1792), where the map of each governorship is accompanied by an allegorical composition with a coat of arms, an empty shield is depicted instead of the coat of arms of the Kolyvan Viceroyalty.