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Alyavy

human settlement in Yelansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ24324606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alyavy (Russian: Алявы) is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Alyavskoye Rural Settlement, Yelansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 259 as of 2010.

Geography

Alyavy is located on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 48 km south of Yelan (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zelyony is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alyavy” as human settlement in Yelansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alyavy, human and settlement.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alyavy, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Alyavy”, the useful work is to connect “human settlement in Yelansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24324606. Authority coordinates are 50.756, 43.735. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Alyavy”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Alyavy primary sources, Alyavy archive and Alyavy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Alyavy”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Alyavy” 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.