ABSTRACT
With the defeat of the poly-ethnic Kokand khanate in 1876, its heartland, the Ferghana Valley, became totally subjugated to a colonial regime. Long before this, Russian forces had conquered the western region of the valley, the presentday Hodjent oblast of the Tajik Republic. It became an administrative sub-region, or uyezd, of the Samarkand oblast, under the authority of the Syr Darya governor-general. The Ferghana Valley’s colonial era was marked by the introduction of a new system of administrative-territorial management, based on a vertical structure, through which the governor-general of Turkestan, directly appointed by the Tsar, administered newly conquered lands.
