Native Name: | Волынская наместничество |
Conventional Long Name: | Volhynia Viceroyalty |
Common Name: | Volyn |
Subdivision: | Viceroyalty |
Nation: | the Russian Empire |
Year Start: | 1792 |
Event Start: | 2nd partition of Poland |
Event End: | transformed into a governorate |
Date End: | 1 August |
Year End: | 1796 |
P1: | Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795) |
P2: | Izyaslav Viceroyalty |
S1: | Volhynia Governorate |
Capital: | Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) |
Political Subdiv: | Governorates of Russian Empire |
Volhynia Viceroyalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество|Volynskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1795 after the third Partition of Poland from the territory of the Izyaslav Viceroyalty and Wołyń Voivodeship.