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Belousovka

village in Seryshevsky District, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ19613691
Source-derived summary

Belousovka (Russian: Белоусовка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Lebyazhyevsky Selsoviet of Seryshevsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 41 as of 2018. There are three streets.

Geography

Belousovka is located on the Tom River, 28 km southwest of Seryshevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lebyazhye is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Belousovka” is village in Seryshevsky District, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Belousovka, village and Seryshevsky, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Belousovka, village and Seryshevsky is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Seryshevsky District, Russia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19613691. Authority coordinates are 50.988, 128.101. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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
Verify next

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 “Belousovka”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Belousovka primary sources, Belousovka archive and Belousovka 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 “Belousovka”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Belousovka” 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.