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unusual facts about Chernigov Governorate



Chernihiv

The area in general was ruled by the Governor-General appointed from Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, and Chernihiv was the capital of local namestnichestvo (province) (from 1782), Malorosiyskaya or Little Russian (from 1797) and Chernigov Governorate (from 1808).

Matvey Blanter

Blanter, the son of a Jewish craftsman, was born in the town of Pochep, then in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Tereshko Parkhomenko

He was born 10 September 1872 in the village of Voloskivtsi, Sosnytsia county, in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Vitaly Markovich Primakov

Vitaliy Markovych Prymakov (Віталій Маркович Примаков) or Vitaly Markovich Primakov (Виталий Маркович Примаков) (December 3, 1897, Semenivka, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – June 12, 1937, Moscow, Russian SFSR), was a Ukrainian red cossack, soviet cossack, commander of the Red Cossacks corps, part of Red Army.


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