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Geographical Regions for the
JewishGen Belarus Database
Today's Belarus was part of five Russian Empire gubernias (pre-1917):
Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vilna, and Vitebsk.
Each gubernia
(губерния)
was comprised of several districts
(уѣздъ / уезд =
uyezds):
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Minsk gubernia
[Минская
губерния]
was comprised of 9 districts (uyezds):
Bobruisk, Borisov, Igumen, Minsk, Mozyr, Novogrudok, Pinsk, Rechitsa
and Slutsk.
Between the two world wars — the western third was in Poland
(southern Nowogródek and northeastern Polesie provinces).
Today — the vast majority of Minsk gubernia is in modern Belarus;
small portions of southern Pinsk and Mozyr uyezds are
in modern Ukraine.
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Mogilev gubernia
[Могилевская
губерния]
was comprised of 11 districts (uyezds):
Bykhov, Chausy, Cherikov, Gomel, Gory-Gorki, Klimovichi, Mogilev,
Mstislavl, Orsha, Rogachev, and Senno.
Today — the majority of Mogilev gubernia is in modern Belarus;
small portions of northeastern Mogilev gubernia
(eastern Orsha, eastern Mstislavl, and northern Klimovichi uyezds)
are in modern Russia.
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Vitebsk gubernia
[Витебская
губерния]
was comprised of 11 districts (uyezds):
Drissa, Dvinsk, Gorodok, Lepel, Liutsin, Nevel, Polotsk, Rezhitsa,
Sebezh, Velizh, and Vitebsk.
Today — Dvinsk, Rezhitsa, and Liutsin uyezds
(and a small part of Drissa) are now in Latvia;
Sebezh, Nevel, and parts of Gorodok and Velizh uyezds
are now in Russia;
Lepel, Polotsk, Vitebsk, most of Drissa and Gorodok, and parts of
Velizh uyezds are now in Belarus.
For more details, see
Geographical
Regions for the JewishGen Latvia Database.
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Grodno gubernia
[Гродненская
губерния]
was comprised of 9 districts (uyezds):
Bialystok, Bielsk, Brest, Grodno, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim, Sokolka
and Volkovysk.
Between the two world wars — was in Poland (western Polesie,
western Nowogródek, eastern Białystok provinces).
Today — the western third (Bialystok, Bielsk, and Sokolka
uyezds) are in Poland; the remainder of the uyezds
are in Belarus.
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Vilna Gubernia
[Виленская
губерния]
was comprised of 7 districts (uyezds):
Disna, Lida, Oshmyany, Vilejka, Sventsyany, Troki and Vilna.
Between the two world wars — was in Poland (Wilno and
northern Nowogródek provinces).
Today — the four southern uyezds
(Disna, Lida, Oshmyany, and Vilejka) are all or primarily in Belarus,
as is a small part of Vilna and
half of Sventsyany uyezd.
The three northern/western uyezds are primarily in Lithuania
(all of Troki, most of Vilna, and half of Sventsyany).
For more details, see
Geographical
Regions for the JewishGen Lithuania Database.
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Small parts of former
Kovno Gubernia (eastern Novo-Alexandrovsk uyezd),
Suwałki Gubernia (eastern Augustów uyezd), and
Volhynia Gubernia (northern Kovel uyezd)
are also now in Belarus.
JewishGen Database Sharing:
Because of overlapping political borders over time, some
regions are shared with other JewishGen databases.
Last Update: May 30 2013
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