Editing Chernihiv (section)

===Imperial Russia===
Under the 1667 [[Truce of Andrusovo|Treaty of Andrusovo]] the legal [[suzerainty]] of the area was ceded to the [[Tsardom of Russia]], with Chernihiv remaining an important center of the autonomous [[Cossack Hetmanate]]. With the abolishment of the Hetmanate, the city became an ordinary administrative center of the [[Russian Empire]] and a capital of local administrative units. The area in general was ruled by the [[Governor-General]] appointed from [[Saint Petersburg]], the imperial capital, and Chernihiv was the capital of local [[Viceroy|namestnichestvo]] (province) (from 1782), [[Little Russia Governorate (1796-1802)|Malorosiyskaya]] or [[Little Russia]]n (from 1797) and [[Chernigov Governorate]] (from 1808).

According to the census of 1897, the city of Chernihiv had 11,000 [[Jews]] out of a total population of 27,006. Their primary occupations were industrial and commercial. Many tobacco plantations and fruit gardens in the neighborhood were owned by Jews. There were 1,321 Jewish artisans in Chernihiv, including 404 tailors and seamstresses, but the demand for artisan labor was limited to the town. There were 69 Jewish day-laborers, almost exclusively [[:wikt: teamster|teamsters]]. Few, however, were employed in factories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4308-chernigov|title=CHERNIGOV - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/chernigov|title = Chernigov}}</ref>