Yaroslavl Governorate

Yaroslavl Governorate Ярославская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1777–1929
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Capital	Yaroslavl
Area
•	35,615 km2 (13,751 sq mi)
Population
•	1,166,800
History
• Established	1777
• Disestablished	1929
Preceded by Succeeded by Kostroma province Uglich province Yaroslavl province Rybinsk Okrug Yaroslavl Okrug

Yaroslavl Governorate (Russian: Ярославская губерния, romanized: Yaroslavskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in European Russia in the Upper Volga Region. It existed from 1777 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Yaroslavl.

Administrative division

Yaroslavl Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):

• Danilovsky Uyezd (Danilov)
• Lyubimsky Uyezd (Lyubim)
• Mologsky Uyezd (Mologa)
• Myshkinsky Uyezd (Myshkin)
• Poshekhonsky Uyezd (Poshekhonye)
• Romanovo-Borisoglebsky Uyezd (Romanov-Borisoglebsk)
• Rostovsky Uyezd (Rostov)
• Rybinsky Uyezd (Rybinsk)
• Uglichsky Uyezd (Uglich)
• Yaroslavsky Uyezd (Yaroslavl)

Demographics

Population by spoken language in Yaroslavl Governorate (1897)

Language	Native speakers	Percentage
Russian	1,064,525	99.3%
Yiddish	1,554	0.1%
Polish	1,420	0.1%
Other languages	3.856	0.5%
Total	1,071,355	100.00

Notable people

• Klavdiya Gadyuchkina (1910-2025), supercentenarian and oldest Russian person ever recorded

External links

• Ярославская губерния Archived February 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine