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Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast

human settlement in Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk 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 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4506894 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chakola (Russian: Чакола) is a rural locality (a village) in Pirinemskoye Rural Settlement of Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 98 as of 2010. There are 2 streets.

Geography

Chakola is located on the Pinega River, 55 km north of Karpogory (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorodok is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

“Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast” enters the record as human settlement in Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chakola, Arkhangelsk and Oblast can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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 strongest next move is a source search built around Chakola, Arkhangelsk and Oblast.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chakola, Arkhangelsk and Oblast provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q4506894. Authority coordinates are 64.317, 44.323. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.

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  • 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 “Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast primary sources, Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast archive and Chakola 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 “Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Chakola, Arkhangelsk Oblast” 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.