Poltava Governorate
Language Number percentage (% )
Ukrainian 2,583,133 92.98
Yiddish 110,352 3.97
Russian 72 941 2.63
German 4 579 0.16
Polish 3 891 0.14
Belorussian 1 344 0.05
Persons that did not identify their native language 92 < 0.01
Other 1 819 0.07
Language
By the Imperial census of 1897 [ 2 ] , in bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language . Comparison with other province ( 1897 )
The Poltava Governorate (Russian: Полтавская губернія; translit. : Poltavskaya guberniya, Ukrainian: Полтавська Губернія) or Government of Poltava was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire, which was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Malorossiya Governorate which was split between the Chernigov Governorate and Poltava Governorate with an administrative center of Poltava.