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Gubanovka, Kursk Oblast

human settlement in Medvensky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ19676950 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gubanovka (Russian: Губановка) is a rural locality (Russian: деревня, lit. 'village') in Kitayevsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Medvensky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population: 128 (2010 census); 150 (2002 census);

Geography

The village is located on the Polnaya River (a left tributary of the Seym), 77 km (48 mi) from the Russia–Ukraine border, 29 km (18 mi) south-east of Kursk, 11 km (6.8 mi) north-east of the district center – the urban-type settlement Medvenka, 4 km (2.5 mi) from the selsoviet center – 2nd Kitayevka.

Climate

Gubanovka has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).

Transport

Gubanovka is located 10.5 km (6.5 mi) from the federal route M-2 Crimea Highway (a part of the European route E105), 6.5 km (4.0 mi) from the road of intermunicipal significance 38H-236 (M2 "Crimea Highway" – Polevaya), on the road 38H-237 (M2 "Crimea Highway" – Polny – 38N-236), 22 km (14 mi) from the nearest railway halt Kolodnoye (railway line Klyukva — Belgorod).

The rural locality is situated 33 km (21 mi) from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 92 km (57 mi) from Belgorod International Airport and 207 km (129 mi) from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.

References

Notes

Sources

Губернатор Курской области. Постановление №489 от 6 ноября 2008 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц населённых пунктов Курской области», в ред. Постановления №26-пг от 29 января 2013 г. «О внесении изменений и дополнений в Постановление Губернатора Курской области от 06.11.2008 №489 "Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц населённых пунктов Курской области"».

Editorial summary

“Gubanovka, Kursk Oblast” enters the record as human settlement in Medvensky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gubanovka, Kursk and Oblast can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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, 2008, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gubanovka, Kursk and Oblast.
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“Gubanovka, Kursk Oblast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gubanovka, Kursk and Oblast provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q19676950. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 2008 and 2013.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gubanovka, Kursk Oblast” 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.