12.1% of the population, 209,427 Velikorossy (Russians) representing 5.9% of the population, and 68,791 Poles representing 1.9% of the population. By faith, 2,983,736 census respondents were Orthodox Christians, 433,728 were Jews and 106,733 were of the Roman Catholic Church. The estimated population in 1906 was 4,206,100. Kiev Governorate remained a constituent unit of the larger Governorate General with Kiev being the capital of both well into the 20th century. In 1915, the General Governorate was disbanded while the guberniya continued to exist. Administrative division Kiev Governorate consisted of 12 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets): Principal cities Russian Empire Census of 1897 Kiev – 247,723 (Russian – 134 278, Ukrainian – 55 064, Jewish – 29 937, Polish – 16 579, German – 4 354, Belorusian – 2 797) Berdichev – 53,351 (Jewish – 41 125, Russian – 4 612, Ukrainian – 4 395) Uman – 31,016 (Jewish – 17 709, Ukrainian – 9 509, Russian – 2 704) Cherkassy – 29,600 (Ukrainian – 12 900, Jewish – 10 916, Russian – 4 911) Skvira – 17,958 (Jewish – 8 905, Ukrainian – 7 681, Russian – 956) Zvenigorodka – 16,923 (Ukrainian – 8 337, Jewish – 6 368, Russian – 1 513) Vasilkov – 13,132 (Ukrainian – 7 108, Jewish – 5 140, Russian – 820) Tarascha – 11,259 (Ukrainian – 5 601, Jewish – 4 906, Russian – 575) Radomysl – 10,906 (Jewish – 7 468, Ukrainian – 2 463, Russian – 778) Smaller cities Chigirin – 9,872 (Ukrainian – 6 578, Jewish – 2 921, Russian – 343) Kanev – 8,855 (Ukrainian – 5 770, Jewish – 2 710, Russian – 303) Lipovets – 8,658 (Jewish – 4 117, Ukrainian – 3 948, Russian – 397) After 1917 In the times after the Russian revolution in 1917–1921, the lands of Kiev Governorate switched hands many times. After the last Imperial governor, Alexey Ignatyev until March 6, 1917, the local leaders were appointed by competing authorities. At times, the Governorate Starosta (appointed by the Central Rada) and the Governorate Commissar (sometimes underground) both claimed the Governorate, while some of the short-lived ruling regimes of the territory did not establish any particular administrative subdivision. As chaos gave way to stability in the early 1920s, the Soviet Ukrainian authority re-established the Governorate whose leading post was titled the Chairman of the Governorate's Revolutionary Committee (revkom) or of the Executive Committee