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Gorkoye (Altai Krai)

human settlement in Altai Krai, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ25508757 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gorkoye (Russian: Горькое) is a rural locality (a selo) in Laptevsky Selsoviet, Uglovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2013. It was founded in 1900. There is 1 street.

Geography

Gorkoye is located 41 km south of Uglovskoye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervye Korosteli is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gorkoye (Altai Krai)” is human settlement in Altai Krai, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gorkoye, Altai and Krai, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gorkoye, Altai and Krai is the immediate research focus.
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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 Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25508757. Authority coordinates are 51.179, 80.266. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gorkoye (Altai Krai)” 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.