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Administrative divisions of Koryak Autonomous Okrug

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2020
Entity authorityQ4683531 ↗
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Koryak Autonomous Okrug was a federal subject of Russia until June 30, 2007. On July 1, 2007 it was merged with Kamchatka Oblast to form Kamchatka Krai. After the merger, it retains a status of an administrative division within Kamchatka Krai.

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This entry incorporates text from “Administrative divisions of Koryak Autonomous Okrug” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.