guberniia

English

Noun

guberniia (plural guberniias or gubernii)

  1. Alternative form of guberniya.
    • 1973, Rudolph L. Daniels, “Imprisonment”, in V. N. Tatishchev: Guardian of the Petrine Revolution, Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
      His project called for six gubernii, which in turn would be divided into vice-gubernii, provinces, and city regions. He would have established a Velikorusskaia, or Great Russia, Guberniia in northwest Russia centering around St. Petersburg. Belorusskaia, or White Russia, followed, with Moscow for its administrative center.
    • 2020 February 4, Danielle Ross, “An Empire without Russians”, in Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 237:
      The South Urals-Volga State would include those regions of Kazan, Ufa, and Orenburg guberniias in which “Turko-Tatars” made up the majority.
    • 2024 July 30, Carol S. Leonard, Zafar Nazarov, Leonid Borodkin, Roman B. Konchakov, Maria Karpenko, “Railroads and Strikes in Russia, 1894–1904: Revolution in Times of Railroad Building”, in Carol S. Leonard, Daniel Orlovsky, Jurej Petrov, editors, The Russian Revolution of 1917—Memory and Legacy (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)‎[1], Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
      On average, a guberniia in 1897 had 1,869,600 subjects residing in the urban and rural areas of the guberniia, which was close to the size of Bessarabia. The most populated gubernii in 1897 were Kiev, Vyatka and Podolska (3,559,000, 3,031,000 and 3,018,000) and the least were Arkhangelsk, Olonetsk and Estland, almost ten times less than the population of Kiev.
    • 2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Ukraine and the RSFSR: How to Find a Common Border”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
      Negotiators defined Ukrainian territory using the borders of the imperial gubernii. However, there were two major differences. Negotiators did not adopt the idea of plebiscites in contested areas, and they divided Chernigov Guberniia between them.
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