Volhynia Governorate (ukr)

Volhynia Governorate

Volhynia Governorate ranks 2,327th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Haverfordwest, Neubrandenburg, and Kolding. Memorable people born in Volhynia Governorate include Lesya Ukrainka, Fanny Kaplan, and Nikolai Ostrovsky. Memorable people who died in Volhynia Governorate include Nikolay Shchors. Volhynia Governorate has been the birth place of many writers, and social activists and the death place of many military personnels. Volhynia Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Volhynia Governorate, also known as Volyn Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It consisted of an area of 71,736 square kilometres (27,697 sq mi) and a population of 2,989,482 inhabitants. The governorate bordered Grodno and Minsk Governorates to the north, Kiev Governorate to the east, Podolia Governorate to the south, Lublin and Siedlce Governorates, and after 1912, Kholm Governorate and Austria to the west. Its capital was in Novograd-Volynsky until 1804, and then Zhitomir. It corresponded to most of modern-day Volyn, Rivne and Zhytomyr Oblasts of Ukraine and some parts of Brest and Gomel Regions of Belarus. Read more on Wikipedia