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Borisovsky Uyezd

Place in Uyezd, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Borisovsky Uyezd was one of the uyezds of Minsk Governorate and the Governorate-General of Minsk of the Russian Empire and then of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic with its seat in Borisov from 1793 until its formal abolition in 1924 by Soviet authorities.

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The public source identifies “Borisovsky Uyezd” as place in Uyezd, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Borisovsky, Uyezd and Place.

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This entry incorporates text from “Borisovsky Uyezd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.