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Karsunsky District

district in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2719807 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karsunsky District (Russian: Карсу́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,768.6 square kilometers (682.9 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Karsun. Population: 25,170 (2010 Census); 29,319 (2002 census); 32,561 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Karsun accounts for 30.8% of the district's total population.

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Законодательное Собрание Ульяновской области. Закон №126-ЗО от 3 октября 2006 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Ульяновской области», в ред. Закона №225-ЗО от 29 декабря 2014 г.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Karsunsky District” as district in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Karsunsky, District and district.

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, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Karsunsky, District and district providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Karsunsky District”, the useful work is to connect “district in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2719807. Authority coordinates are 54.197, 46.985. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karsunsky 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.