Meaning of guberniia | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

“The South Urals-Volga State would include those regions of Kazan, Ufa, and Orenburg guberniias in which “Turko-Tatars” made up the majority.”

“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.”

“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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