Cheremkhovsky District
municipal district in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
Cheremkhovsky District (Russian: Черемхо́вский райо́н) is an administrative district, one of the thirty-three in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Cheremkhovsky Municipal District. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 9,887.42 square kilometers (3,817.55 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Cheremkhovo (which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 30,114.
History
The district was established in 1926.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Cheremkhovsky District is one of the thirty-three in the oblast. The town of Cheremkhovo serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Cheremkhovsky Municipal District.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cheremkhovsky District” is municipal district in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cheremkhovsky, District and municipal, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “municipal district in Irkutsk Oblast, 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.
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 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1651996. VIAF identifies the subject as 158666073. The Library of Congress control number is no2008131244. Authority coordinates are 53.150, 103.067. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1926.
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
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Cheremkhovsky District” 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.