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.
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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)
Notable people
Klavdiya Gadyuchkina (1910-2025), supercentenarian and oldest Russian person ever recorded