Yaroslavl Governorate
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| Yaroslavl Governorate Ярославская губерния | |||||||||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1777–1929 | |||||||||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Yaroslavl | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
• | 35,615 km2 (13,751 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• | 1,166,800 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 1777 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1929 | ||||||||||||||
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Yaroslavl Governorate (Russian: Ярославская губерния, romanized: Yaroslavskaya guberniya)[1] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in European Russia in the Upper Volga Region. It existed from 1777 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Yaroslavl.[2]
Yaroslavl Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
