Question: Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya, was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children, he was born in the Tula what, an administrative division of a country?
Context: Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov (also Yuliy Vorontsov; Russian: Ю́лий Миха́йлович Воронцо́в ) (October 7, 1929, Leningrad  – December 12, 2007, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet diplomat, President of International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow).  In the mid-1970s he was Chargé d'Affaires at the Soviet embassy in Washington under Ambassador Dobrynin.  He was then Ambassador to India (1978-1983) and France (1983-1986).  He returned to Moscow to be the first deputy foreign minister (1986-1990) and participated in arms reduction talks with the United States.  In 1988-1989, he was simultaneously the Ambassador to Afghanistan as Soviet troops withdrew from the country.  He then served as the last Soviet ambassador to United Nations between 1990 and 1991 and as the first Russian Permanent Representative to the UN from 1991 to 1994.  After this he served as the Russian ambassador to the United States from 1994 to 1998.  In 2000 Vorontsov was chosen as the high-level coordinator for issues related to a paragraph of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 which once again required Iraq to face "its obligations regarding the repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country nationals or their remains, [and] the return of all Kuwaiti property [...] seized by Iraq" (during the invasion of Kuwait). A governorate is an administrative division of a country.  It is headed by a governor.  As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states, provinces, or colonies, the term "governorate" is often used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations. Daniel Semyonovich Solod (Russian: Даниил Семёнович Солод , 1908–1988) was a Soviet diplomat and orientalist.  He began working in the Soviet diplomatic corps in 1937.  In 1940–1941 he served as Officer at the Soviet embassy in Yugoslavia.  He was then transferred to Iran, where he served as Officer at the Soviet embassy in 1941-1943.  In 1944–1950 he was the Soviet consul to Egypt.  He served as the Soviet envoy to Lebanon and Syria.  In 1953–1956 he returned to Egypt, as the Soviet envoy (becoming ambassador in 1954).  Returning from Egypt, he was put in charge of the Near East department at the Soviet Foreign Ministry.  Between 1959 and 1962 he was the Soviet ambassador to Guinea.  After returning from Guinea, he worked at the Africa Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR until 1970. Mikhail Nikolayevich Smirnovsky was a Soviet diplomat and a specialist in Soviet relations with English-speaking countries.  He was first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC in 1953, and served a second time in Washington as the minister-counselor and second-ranking officer of the Embassy at the beginning of the 1960s.  Around 1963 Smirnovsky returned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, where he was chief of the USA section of the Ministry.  In 1966 he became Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom (with concurrent accreditation in Malta starting in 1967), where he served until 1973.  It is believed that he was later, in Moscow, a member of the Foreign Ministry's Collegium, understood to have been an advisory group of senior officers.  He was a player in US-Soviet relations at critical times, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.  Smirnovsky was viewed by American colleagues as an efficient, businesslike diplomat who, in contrast to many other Soviet officials, eschewed rudeness and avoided unnecessary exaggeration. Anatoli Granovsky (born 1922) is a former NKVD agent who defected to the West in 1946 and authored an autobiographical book about his career in Soviet intelligence.  Granovsky was the son of a high-ranking Soviet bureaucrat, Mikhail Granovsky, who was a victim of the Stalinist Purges of the late 1930s.  To find his father in the Soviet Gulag system, Granovsky allowed himself to be arrested by the NKVD on false charges and interred in the same penal system.  As a result of his past friendships with the children of his father's high-ranking former colleagues, Granovsky was recruited as an NKVD agent to spy on those same acquaintances in July 1939.  After defecting to Sweden in autumn 1946, Granovsky wrote the book "I Was an NKVD Agent". Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (Russian: Зоя Ивановна Воскресенская ; in marriage – Rybkina, Рыбкина; April 28 [o.s. 15], 1907, Uzlovaya, Tula Governorate, – January 8, 1992, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children.  A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels "Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu" (Through Icy Haze, 1962) and "Serdtse Materi" (A Mother's Heart, 1965).  In 1962-1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR. Pakistan Foreign Office Women's Association (PFOWA) is a non-political, non profit, charitable organization, dedicated to the welfare of the low paid employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and their families.  It aims to assist their children with education provide financial help to the widows of the Foreign Office staff and extends a helping hand, in cases requiring medical assistance.  Spouses of all foreign office officials and lady officers of the Ministry are members of PFOWA. Boris Arkadyevich Rybkin (Russian: Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин )born Boruch Aronovich Rivkin Russian: Борух Аронович Рывкин ; 19 June 189927 November 1947) was a Soviet diplomat and a secret agent of NKVD.  He worked as a junior diplomatic official named Boris Yartsev in the embassy of the Soviet Union in Helsinki. Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Новиков ) (7 February 1903–1989) was a Soviet diplomat born in Saint Petersburg.  He graduated from the Oriental Institute there in 1930.  In the following years he held various scientific and academic positions, also serving in the Foreign Office in Moscow and Soviet representative in Cairo during World War II.  Most notably, he served as ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States, being named to that post on 10 April 1946 until he was relieved of his duties on 24 October 1947; he had been away from Washington since being recalled to Moscow for consultations on 26 July that year. Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov (Russian: Василий Сергеевич Толстиков ; 6 November 1917, Tula – 29 April 2003, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official.
Answer: governorate