Some Uyezds

Gubernia	Uyezds
Kaunas Kovno	Kaunas Kovno	Panevezys Ponevezh	Raseiniai Rosieny	Siauliai Shavli	Telsiai Telshi	Ukmerge Vilkomir, Wilkomierz	Zarasai Novo Alexandrovsk
Minsk	Bobruisk	Borisov	Igumen	Minsk	Nozyr	Nesvizh	Novogrudok	Pinsk	Rechitsa	Slutsk
Mogilev	Bykhov	Chausy	Cherikov	Gomel	Gory-Gorki	Klimovichi	Kopys	Mogilev	Mstislavl	Orsha
	Rogachev	Senno
Vilnius	Disna	Kalvarija	Kudirkos Naumiestis Vladislavov or Neustadt	Lida	Oshmiany Asmiany	Svencionys Sventsiany	Trakai Troki	Vilnius Vilno
Vitebsk	Drissa	Dvinsk	Gorodok	Lepel	Liutsin	Nevel	Polotsk	Rezhitsa	Sebezh	Velizh
	Vitebsk

We also have Drissa recorded in Vilna gubernia, Disna uyezd.

Here is a list of Lithuanian place name changes.

Notes
The Russian Empire's western territories were known as the Pale of Settlement. Jewish were permitted to reside only in those areas. They were divided up into large administrative regions called gubernias, and these were divided up into administrative districts called uyezds. Administrative business was conducted in Russian.

These regions are sometimes referred to as governments and districts, particularly in some of the Ellis Island records. References to "Minsk" or "Vilna" (with spelling variations) can refer to the gubernia, the uyezd, or the city.

The records use spellings based on German, Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian conventions. Some of the variations reflect differences in names across languages, others are merely a matter of spelling. For example, "Wilno", "Vilna", and "Vilnius" represent two names but three spellings. In U.S. immigration records, Lithuanian names are rare.

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