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{{Infobox Former Subdivision
| native_name = Кавказское наместничество
| conventional_long_name = Caucasus Viceroyalty
| common_name = Caucasus
| subdivision = Viceroyalty
| nation = Russia
| status_text = [[Viceroyalty]] of the [[Russian Empire]]
| year_start = 1785
| year_end = 1796
| life_span =
| date_end =
| event_start =
| event_end =
| p1 = Taurida Oblast
| flag_p1 =
| p2 = Astrakhan Governorate
| flag_p2 =
| s1 = Astrakhan Governorate
| flag = Flag of Russia
| flag_type = Flag
| image_map   = Map of Caucasus Namestnichestvo 1792 (small atlas).jpg
| capital = [[Yekaterinograd]]
| government_type = [[Viceroyalty]]
| title_leader =
| leader1 =
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}}
The '''Caucasus Viceroyalty''' ({{langx|ru|Кавказское наместничество}}) was established in 1785 by [[Catherine the Great]] by combining the [[Astrakhan Governorate]] and the <!--do not link, article refers to a later incarnation-->Caucasus Governorate.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blauvelt |first=Timothy K. |url=https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781351055628-7 |title=The Caucasus in the Russian Empire |date=2020-03-12 |publisher=Routledge Handbooks Online |isbn=978-1-138-48318-7 |pages=108 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781351055628-7}}</ref>
It was abolished by [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]] in 1796.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blauvelt |first=Timothy K. |url=https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781351055628-7 |title=The Caucasus in the Russian Empire |date=2020-03-12 |publisher=Routledge Handbooks Online |isbn=978-1-138-48318-7 |pages=112 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781351055628-7}}</ref>
==Viceroys==
The five viceroys or heads of the viceroyalty were:{{cn|date=December 2023}}
{| class="wikitable"
!time
!name
!life span
|-
|1785–1787 ||[[Pavel Potemkin|Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin]] || 1743–1796
|-
|1787–1789 ||[[Peter Tekeli|Pyotr Abramovich Tekelli]]|| 1720−1793
|-
|1789–1790 ||[[Ivan Petrovich Saltykov]] || 1730–1805
|-
|1790 ||[[Anton de Balmen|Anton Bogdanovich de Balmen]]|| 1741–1790
|-
|1790–1796,<br>1796–1798,<br>1806–1809||[[Ivan Gudovich|Ivan Vasilyevich Gudovich]]|| 1741–1820
|}
==References==
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[[Category:History of the Caucasus under the Russian Empire|Viceroyalty (1785-96)]]
[[Category:Viceroyalties of the Russian Empire]]
[[Category:History of the North Caucasus]]
[[Category:1780s in the Russian Empire]]
[[Category:1790s in the Russian Empire]]
[[Category:18th century in Georgia (country)]]
[[Category:1785 establishments in the Russian Empire]]
[[Category:1796 disestablishments in the Russian Empire]]
[[Category:1785 establishments in Asia]]
[[Category:1796 disestablishments in Asia]]
[[Category:1785 establishments in Europe]]
[[Category:1796 disestablishments in Europe]]
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