/gooh ber"nee euh/ ; Russ. /gooh byerdd"nyi yeuh/ , n.
1. (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
2. (in Russia before 1917) an administrative division equivalent to the province.
[ gubérniya, prob. deriv. of gubernátor GOVERNOR (
imperátor EMPEROR, impériya EMPIRE ]