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Deminsky

human settlement in Novoanninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ24484406
Source-derived summary

Deminsky (Russian: Деминский) is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Deminskoye Rural Settlement, Novoanninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 839 as of 2010. There are 8 streets.

Geography

Deminsky is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 37 km northwest of Novoanninsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kosovsky is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Deminsky” is human settlement in Novoanninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Deminsky, human and settlement, not as a finished interpretation.

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. For this dossier, Deminsky, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Novoanninsky District, Volgograd 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.

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 Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24484406. Authority coordinates are 50.572, 42.284. 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.

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 “Deminsky”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Deminsky primary sources, Deminsky archive and Deminsky 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 “Deminsky”?
  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 Deminsky” 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.