Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GUBERNIYA

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Definitions of GUBERNIYA

1. (historical) A major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.

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Examples of Using GUBERNIYA in a Sentence

• In post-Soviet states such as Russia and Ukraine, the term Guberniya is considered obsolete, yet the word gubernator was reinstated and is used when referring to a governor of an oblast or a krai.
• In 1897 Rainis was arrested and deported first to Pskov, and later to Vyatka guberniya (now Kirov Oblast).
• In 1869, Ulyanov was appointed inspector of public schools in the Simbirsk guberniya (in 1874-1886 he was their director).
• Pavel Dybenko was born in Lyudkovo village, Novozybkov uyezd, Chernigov guberniya, Imperial Russia (now Novozybkov, Bryansk Oblast, Russia) into a Ukrainian peasant family.
• Other Czechoslovak agricultural cooperatives founded with the aim of building socialism in the USSR were the Kladno Commune (Armavir, Krasnodar Krai), the Slovak Commune (Stalingrad Guberniya), Reflector (Ershovsk, Saratov Oblast), Pflug (“plow”), Solidarita, and Čechocentr.
• Up to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the area was legally part of the Chernihiv Governorate (Chernihiv), despite being adjacent to Kyiv, also a center of its Guberniya, with the Dnipro river being the official division line.
• Pezhemsky, Краткая летопись Енисейского и Туруханского края Енисейской губернии (A Brief Letopis of the Yenisey and Turukhansk Krais of the Yenisey Guberniya) (1594–1893) by A.
• During that period of time the Russian Odessa Military District (Odessa MD) before being overrun by Soviets included the following guberniyas: Kherson Governorate, Bessarabia guberniya, Taurida Governorate, and parts of Podolia Governorate and Volyn Governorate.
• Nikolai Semashko was born to a teacher in the village of Livenskoe in Yelets uyezd of Oryol guberniya (in present-day Lipetsk Oblast).
• Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor, Kuzma Afanasyevich Teternikov, who had been a serf in Poltava guberniya, the illegitimate son of a local landowner.
• A large part of the Latgale region of Latvia was included in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1772), later in the Vitebsk Guberniya of the Russian Empire (1804-1917), hence the common practice of transcribing Polish exonyms into German when no German exonym existed.
• Still another one descends from a Kondratiy Afanasiyevich Lvov granted an estate in Galich uyezd, Kostroma Guberniya in 1671.
• Shemakha Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its administrative center in Shemakha (Shamakhi).
• The factory has a variety of Armenian Cognac brands, including: Avshar (5 years old), Erivan (5 and 25 years old), Gladzor (18 years old), Ardvin (5 years old), Marmara (5 years old), Tigris (5 years old), Vagharshapat (15 years old), Berdasar (10 years old), Erivanskaya Guberniya (20 years old), Haghpat (3 years old), Drevne Armyanskiy (25 years old), Tsar Armenak (5 years old), Alaverdi (7 years old) and Tigran (5 years old).
• Leading agricultural enterprises include OOO "Sibirskaya Guberniya", OAO "Barkhatovskaya poultry farm", agricultural cooperatives "Beryozovsky", "Zykovsky", and "Yesaulsky", GUP "Krasnoyarskoye", and OOO "Maganskoye".
• The first stamps were issued at Verkhnodniprovsk, Katerynoslav Guberniya, and in Dniprovsk, Tauridia Gubernia - both of which are now located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857, Izhevskoe village, Ryazan Guberniya – 1935, Kaluga), an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and a pioneer of the astronautic theory, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

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