Volhynia Governorate, also known as Volyn Governorate, [a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It consisted of an area of 71,736 square kilometres (27,697 sq mi) and a population of 2,989,482 inhabitants.

Most of what was the Volhynia Gubernia is now in Ukraine, with a small part of northern Volhynia in Belarus. Major cities and towns in and around Volhynia include Zhitomir (the former capital), Rovno, Lutsk, Kovel, Berdichev, and Novograd-Volinsk.

Dec 11, 2021 · I would like to put together an ancestry group project here on GedMatch for the former region of Volhynia/Wolyn, which is a territory in the present-day Ukraine. During the interwar period (1921-1939), part of the region was in Poland and part in Russia.

Aug 10, 2016 · On the eve of the first world war around 400,000 of our ancestors lived in over 100 shtetls of Volyn Gubernia. Most of Volyn shtetls are on this map. 1897 Jews according to 1897 census (87,4% of total population) Loading... comments.

Volhynia The blue line shows the boundary of the historic Volhynia gubernia. View Larger Map The name Volhynia comes from the fortified town of Volyn, near Volodymyr-Volynsk. It was mentioned in documents dating from 1018, so it is nearly 1,000 years old.

Most of what was the Volhynia Gubernia is now in Ukraine, with a small part of northern Volhynia in Belarus. Major cities and towns in and around Volhynia include Zhitomir (the former capital), Rovno, Lutsk, Kovel, Berdichev, and Novograd-Volinsk.

Volhynia gubernia [Волинська губерня; Volynska hubernia]. An administrative-territorial unit in Russian-ruled Right-Bank Ukraine that replaced Volhynia vicegerency in 1797. The gubernial capital was Novohrad-Volynskyi and, from 1804, Zhytomyr.

Volyn was a battleground during WWII, after the Nazis invasion and occupation in June of 1941. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a guerilla army, was formed here, and fought the Germans, Poles and Russians during the course of the war.

Today, what was once Volhynia Gubernia lies in the western part of the Ukraine, with the exception of a small portion of northern Volhynia which is in Belarus. The present Ukrainian region of Volhynia, located in the basin of Pripyat and the …

Aug 27, 2014 · The Court of Volyn gubernia was established at the territory of the modern Ukraine at 1797, insted at some other «court chambers» worked before. It was the one branch of Ministry of Justice and was the highest point to appeal at the territory of Volyn gubernia.