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Kargatsky District

municipal district in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ552977
Source-derived summary

Kargatsky District (Russian: Карга́тский райо́н; Kazakh: Қарақат ауданы, Qaraqat aýdany) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is 5,396 square kilometers (2,083 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kargat. Population: 18,207 (2010 Census); 22,025 (2002 census); 25,150 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kargat accounts for 55.2% of the district's total population. Lake Ubinskoye extends into the district's northwest corner.

Geography

Rivers Kargat and Chulym, as well as lakes Ubinskoye and Kargan, are located in the district.

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Notes

Sources

Новосибирский областной Совет депутатов. Закон №200-ОЗ от 2 июня 2004 г.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kargatsky District” as municipal district in Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kargatsky, District and municipal can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipal district in Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q552977. Authority coordinates are 55.200, 80.283. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2004.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Kargatsky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kargatsky District primary sources, Kargatsky District archive and Kargatsky 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 “Kargatsky District”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Kargatsky 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.