Yaroslavl Governorate () 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.Ярославский край с древнейших времен до начала XX века
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 Russian1,064,52599.3% Yiddish1,5540.1% Polish1,4200.1% Other languages3.8560.5% Total 1,071,355 100.00
Notable people
Klavdiya Gadyuchkina (1910-2025), supercentenarian and oldest Russian person ever recorded
References
External links Ярославская губерния