Kherson Governorate (ukr)

Kherson Governorate

Kherson Governorate ranks 2,961st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Clapton, London, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, and Euskirchen. Memorable people born in Kherson Governorate include Isaac Babel, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Alexander Samsonov. Kherson Governorate has been the birth place of many writers, and religious figures. Kherson Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Kherson Governorate, known until 1803 as Nikolayev Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kherson. It encompassed 71,936 square kilometres (27,775 sq mi) in area and had a population of 2,733,612 inhabitants. At the time of the census in 1897, it bordered Podolia Governorate to the northwest, Kiev Governorate to the north, Poltava Governorate to the northeast, Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, Taurida Governorate to the southeast, Black Sea to the south, and Bessarabia Governorate to the west. It roughly corresponds to what is now most of Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad and Odesa Oblasts in Ukraine and some parts of Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts. Read more on Wikipedia