Poltava Governorate (ukr)

Poltava Governorate

Poltava Governorate ranks 3,517th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tula Governorate, Wallachia, and Conyers, Georgia. Memorable people born in Poltava Governorate include Marie Bashkirtseff, Georgy Gapon, and Ivan Poddubny. Memorable people who died in Poltava Governorate include Mykhailo Maksymovych, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. Poltava Governorate has been the birth place of many painters, and social activists and the death place of many historians, and politicians. Poltava Governorate is located in Ukraine.

Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Poltava. Read more on Wikipedia