Bering (Russian America)

The Governorate of Bering (: Беринговская губерния, Beringovskaya guberniya), commonly known as Bering (Беринг), is a governorate:0:0 of the Alaska:Alaskan Democratic Federative Republic:0. Bering borders the Far North:0:0, New Irkutsk:0:0, and Shelikof:0:0 to the east, and has a maritime border with the Russia:Russian Federation:0 to the west.

The region of modern day Bering was dominated by the for centuries. Russian domination in the area was limited to fishing and fur trading up until the 20th century when on the. During the 1920s, the region was part of the Alaskan Socialist Republic:0:0, yet disconnected with the government in Nushagak:0:0. The region gained attention in the mid-1920s due to an epidemic of, leading to the infamous to New Golovninsk.

Bering became a governorate of Alaska in the 1940s. Infrastructural projects such as railroad expansion began in the 1950s, finally connecting the governorate to the rest of the nation. After the discovery of oil in the northernmost parts of the governorate, the gubernatorial legislature voted in favor to allow the separation these regions (later to gain governoratehood in 1994 as the Far North:0:0).