Chernigov Governorate (ukr)

Chernigov Governorate

Chernigov Governorate ranks 6,253rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, La Puebla de Montalbán, and Binissalem. Memorable people born in Chernigov Governorate include Mikhail Kirponos, Stephen Timoshenko, and Nikolai Podvoisky. Memorable people who died in Chernigov Governorate include Nikolai Ge. Chernigov Governorate has been the birth place of many military personnels, and engineers and the death place of many painters. Chernigov Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Chernihiv Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit of the Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian SSR, existing from 1918 to 1925. It was inherited from the Russian system of territorial subdivisions that existed prior to World War I. Specifically, Chernigov Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of the left-bank Ukraine and was officially created in 1802 from Malorossiya Governorate with its capital in Chernigov (Chernihiv). Little Russia Governorate was transformed into the General Government of Little Russia and consisted of Chernigov Governorate, Poltava Governorate, and later Kharkov Governorate. Read more on Wikipedia