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Donskaya

human settlement in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ18923846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Donskaya (Russian: Донская) is a rural locality (a village) in Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 128 (2010 census);

Geography

This rural locality is located 35 kilometres (22 mi) from Bokhan (the district's administrative centre), 136 kilometres (85 mi) from Irkutsk (capital of Irkutsk Oblast) and 4,373 kilometres (2,717 mi) from Moscow. Mutinova is the nearest rural locality.

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The public source identifies “Donskaya” as human settlement in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Donskaya, human and settlement.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Donskaya, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18923846. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Donskaya” 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.