CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · Places & Architecture

Isilkulsky District

municipal district in Russia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1230636
Source-derived summary

Isilkulsky District (Russian: Исильку́льский райо́н; Kazakh: Есілкөл ауданы, Esilkól aýdany) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,800 square kilometers (1,100 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Isilkul (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 18,942 (2010 Census); 22,216 (2002 census); 22,691 (1989 Soviet census).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Isilkulsky District is one of the thirty-two in the oblast. The town of Isilkul serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Isilkulsky Municipal District, with the town of oblast significance of Isilkul being incorporated within it as Isilkul Urban Settlement.

Notable residents

Georgi Vyun (1944–2008), football player and coach, born in Solntsevka

References

Notes

Sources

Законодательное Собрание Омской области. Закон №467-ОЗ от 15 октября 2003 г.

Editorial summary

“Isilkulsky District” enters the record as municipal district in Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Isilkulsky, District and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989, 1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Isilkulsky, District and municipal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Isilkulsky District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Isilkulsky, District and municipal 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 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1230636. Authority coordinates are 54.909, 71.261. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 1944.

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 “Isilkulsky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Isilkulsky District primary sources, Isilkulsky District archive and Isilkulsky 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 “Isilkulsky District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Isilkulsky 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.