guberniya

American  

[goo-ber-nee-uh, goo-byer-nyi-yuh] / guˈbɛr ni ə, guˈbyɛr nyɪ yə /

noun

1. (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.

2. (in Russia before 1917) an administrative division equivalent to the province.

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guberniya British  

/ ɡuˈbjɛrnɪjə /

noun

1. a territorial division of imperial Russia

2. a territorial and administrative subdivision in the former Soviet Union

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Etymology

Origin of guberniya

From Russian gubérniya, probably derivative of gubernátor “governor” (from Polish, from Latin ), by analogy with imperátor “emperor,” impériya; “empire”; governor, emperor, empire

Example Sentences

Alexandra Teplyakova, a journalist who recently resigned from popular independent local television station Guberniya, said local reporters were also under pressure.

From Seattle Times

Her former colleagues at Guberniya TV told her that after the first protest on July 11, their boss warned them they could not air footage of the march or everyone would lose their jobs.

From Seattle Times

The other “foreign agents” to receive Kremlin funding were the NGO Development Center, which assists nongovernmental organizations throughout Russia, and the Samarnaya Guberniya fund, a charity that helps vulnerable people, including senior citizens, in central Russia.

From Washington Times

"And in tsarist times Oryol was at the heart of a huge guberniya, or province, which covered a large area and included many estates. "We like to call this the third literary capital of Russia, after Moscow and St Petersburg.

From BBC

What appears to be fresh graves of the killed paratroopers were first spotted in the village by Pskovskaya Guberniya, a local newspaper.

From BBC