New Russia Governorate, or Novorossiya Governorate (Russian: Новороссийская губерния, romanized: Novorossiyskaya guberniya), was a governorate of the Russian Empire in the previously Ottoman and Cossack territories, that existed from 1764 until the 1783 administrative reform. It was created and governed according to the "Plan for the Colonization of New Russia Gubernia" issued by the Russian Senate. It became the first region in Russia where Catherine the Great allowed foreign Jews to settle.