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Cherepanovsky District

municipal district in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ554450
Source-derived summary

Cherepanovsky District (Russian: Черепа́новский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,908 square kilometers (1,123 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Cherepanovo. Population: 47,842 (2010 Census); 50,959 (2002 census); 53,418 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Cherepanovo accounts for 41.4% of the district's total population.

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Новосибирский областной Совет депутатов. Закон №200-ОЗ от 2 июня 2004 г. «О статусе и границах муниципальных образований Новосибирской области», в ред. Закона №548-ОЗ от 29 апреля 2015 г.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cherepanovsky District” as municipal district in Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cherepanovsky, District and municipal.

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—2010, 2002, 1989, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cherepanovsky, District and municipal providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cherepanovsky District”, the useful work is to connect “municipal district in 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 Oct 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q554450. VIAF identifies the subject as 145379508. The Library of Congress control number is n00040250. Authority coordinates are 54.217, 83.367. 3 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2004.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from Cherepanovsky 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.