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Uyezd or uezd () was an admistrative subdivision of Rus'
Rus' (people)

Rus? are the historic population of the medieval Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus' whose name survives in the cognates Russians, Rusyns, and Ruthenians, and who are viewed by the modern Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians as the predecessors of their own peoples....
, Muscovy, and Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 used from the 13th century, originally describing groups of several volost
Volost

Volost was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.In earlier Early East Slavs history, volost was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz; either as an absolute ruler or with varying degree of autonomy from the Velikiy Knyaz ....
s formed around the most important cities. Uyezds were ruled by the representatives (namestnik
Namestnik

Namestnik was an office position in the history of Russia. Its literal translation would be "deputy" or "lieutenant" . The term has two periods of usage, with different meanings....
s) of knyaz
Knyaz

Kniaz?, knyaz or knez is a slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a Royal family nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....
 and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas.

In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
, dividing Russia into governorates
Guberniya

Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
 (guberniya).






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Uyezd or uezd () was an admistrative subdivision of Rus'
Rus' (people)

Rus? are the historic population of the medieval Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus' whose name survives in the cognates Russians, Rusyns, and Ruthenians, and who are viewed by the modern Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians as the predecessors of their own peoples....
, Muscovy, and Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 used from the 13th century, originally describing groups of several volost
Volost

Volost was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.In earlier Early East Slavs history, volost was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz; either as an absolute ruler or with varying degree of autonomy from the Velikiy Knyaz ....
s formed around the most important cities. Uyezds were ruled by the representatives (namestnik
Namestnik

Namestnik was an office position in the history of Russia. Its literal translation would be "deputy" or "lieutenant" . The term has two periods of usage, with different meanings....
s) of knyaz
Knyaz

Kniaz?, knyaz or knez is a slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a Royal family nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....
 and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas.

In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
, dividing Russia into governorates
Guberniya

Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
 (guberniya). The subdivision into uyezds was abolished at that time and was only reinstated in 1727, as a result of Catherine I
Catherine I of Russia

Ekaterina I Alexeyevna , the second wife of Peter I of Russia, functioned as co-ruler with her husband from 1724 until his death early in the next year, and reigned as sole Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death....
's administrative reform.

By the Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 administrative reform of 1923–1929, uyezds were transformed into raion
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
s (districts).

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