Volhynian Viceroyalty Explained

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.