Pskov Governorate (rus)

Pskov Governorate

Pskov Governorate ranks 3,869th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Electoral Palatinate, Ibbenbüren, and Tlalnepantla de Baz. Memorable people born in Pskov Governorate include Aleksey Kuropatkin, Vasily Tatishchev, and Pyotr Tkachev. Memorable people who died in Pskov Governorate include Aleksey Kuropatkin. Pskov Governorate has been the birth place of many politicians, and explorers and the death place of many politicians. Pskov Governorate is located in Russia.

Pskov Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1772–1777 and 1796–1927. Its seat was located in Opochka between 1772 and 1776, and in Pskov after 1776. The governorate was located in the west of the Russian Empire and bordered Saint Petersburg Governorate in the north, Novgorod Governorate in the northeast, Tver Governorate in the east, Smolensk Governorate in the southeast, Belarusian Governorate in the south, and Governorate of Livonia in the west. Read more on Wikipedia