Topic summary
Uyezd
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Uezd.
An uezd (Russian: уезд, romanized: uyezd; pre-1918 spelling:уѣздъ) was a secondary administrative division used in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the early Soviet Union from the 13th century until the late 1920s.