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Bolshaya Sala

human settlement in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ19859430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bolshaya Sala (Russian: Больша́я Сала) is a rural locality (a village) in Lyakhovskoye Rural Settlement, Melenkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 40 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.

Geography

Bolshaya Sala is located 17 km (11 mi) southeast of Melenki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Domnino is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bolshaya Sala” as human settlement in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bolshaya, Sala and human can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19859430. Authority coordinates are 55.305, 41.843. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bolshaya Sala” 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.