Poltava Governorate (ukr)

Poltava Governorate

Poltava Governorate ranks 3,517th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tula Governorate, Wallachia, and Conyers, Georgia. Memorable people born in Poltava Governorate include Marie Bashkirtseff, Georgy Gapon, and Georgy Voronoy. Memorable people who died in Poltava Governorate include Pyotr Rumyantsev, and Mykhailo Maksymovych. Poltava Governorate has been the birth place of many painters, and social activists and the death place of many politicians, and historians. Poltava Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of left-bank Ukraine and was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate, which was split between Chernigov and Poltava Governorates with its capital in Poltava. Read more on Wikipedia