guberniya

[goo-ber-nee-uh, goo-byer-nyi-yuh]

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.

guberniya

/ ɡuˈbjɛrnɪjə /

noun

1. a territorial division of imperial Russia

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of guberniya¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of guberniya¹

from Russian: government, ultimately from Latin gubernāre to _govern

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.

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His statement cited an Aug. 29 incident in the northwest Pskov region when local lawmaker Lev Shlosberg was hospitalized with head injuries after being beaten, reportedly for disclosing the first secret funerals of Russian war dead from Ukraine on his Pskovskaya Guberniya online news site.

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"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.

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