[citation needed] Since 1944, however, most of the county has been administered as Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, first by the Russian SFSR and then, from 1991, by Russia.

[1] Estonia retains territories that today constitute Setomaa Parish in modern Võru County.

The territorial composition of the whole historic province of Petseri County (Petserimaa) is regarded as the homeland of the Setos,[2] a Balto-Finnic people related to Estonians.

[4] During the last year of World War I, from February to December 1918, the county's capital, Pechory, was occupied by German forces.

The Treaty of Tartu of 1920 subsequently assigned Pechory and its surrounding territory, the Setomaa region, to Estonia.