Kiev Governorate (ukr)

Kiev Governorate

Kiev Governorate ranks 2,042nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mito, Ibaraki, Surabaya, and Valmiera. Memorable people born in Kiev Governorate include Kazimir Malevich, Lazar Kaganovich, and Selman Waksman. Kiev Governorate has been the birth place of many painters and politicians. Kiev Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It included the territory of the right-bank Ukraine and was formed after a division of the Kiev Viceroyalty into Kiev and Little Russia Governorates in 1796. Its capital was in Kiev. By the early 20th century, it consisted of 12 uyezds, 12 cities, 111 miasteczkos and 7344 other settlements. After the October Revolution, it became part of the administrative division of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1923 it was divided into several okrugs and on 6 June 1925 it was abolished by the Soviet administrative reforms. Read more on Wikipedia