Galich was born as Alexander Ivanovich Govorov in 1783 into the family of a deacon in Trubchevsk in Bryansk Oblast.
Trubchevsky Urban Administrative Okrug, an administrative division which the town of Trubchevsk in Trubchevsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
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Trubchevskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Trubchevsky Urban Administrative Okrug in Trubchevsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
The region received its name after the Severians, an East Slavic tribe which inhabited the territory in the late 1st millennium A.D. Their main settlements included the present-day cities of Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv (Chernigov), Putyvl (Putivl), Hlukhiv (Glukhov), Liubech, Kursk, Rylsk, Starodub, Trubchevsk, Sevsk, Bryansk, and Belgorod.