Ryazan Governorate

Ryazan Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929. Its capital was in Ryazan.

Administrative division

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

• Dankovsky Uyezd (Dankov)
• Yegoryevsky Uyezd (Yegoryevsk)
• Zaraysky Uyezd (Zaraysk)
• Kasimovsky Uyezd (Kasimov)
• Mikhaylovsky Uyezd (Mikhaylov)
• Pronsky Uyezd (Pronsk)
• Ranenburgsky Uyezd (Ranenburg)
• Ryazhsky Uyezd (Ryazhsk)
• Ryazansky Uyezd (Ryazan)
• Sapozhkovsky Uyezd (Sapozhok)
• Skopinsky Uyezd (Skopin)
• Spassky Uyezd (Spassk)

Notable people

• Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855–1935), plant breeder, was born in Pronsky Uyezd.
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), Russian scientist famous for developing the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

• John Kochurov (1871–1917), Orthodox priest and missionary; first priest-martyr of the Bolshevik Revolution, was born in the Ryazan Governorate.

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