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Kamyshinsky District

human settlement in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2222004 ↗
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Kamyshinsky District (Russian: Камы́шинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kamyshinsky Municipal District. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 3,563 square kilometers (1,376 sq mi). Its administrative center is the city of Kamyshin (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 42,893 (2010 census); 45,019 (2002 Census); 37,276 (1989 Soviet census).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kamyshinsky District is one of the thirty-three in the oblast. The city of Kamyshin 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 Kamyshinsky Municipal District. The city of oblast significance of Kamyshin is incorporated separately from the district as Kamyshin Urban Okrug.

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-06-23. For this dossier, Kamyshinsky, District and human 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 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2222004. Authority coordinates are 50.067, 45.400. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kamyshinsky 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.