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Kaslinsky District

municipal district in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1652753 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kaslinsky District (Russian: Ка́слинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is 3,356 square kilometers (1,296 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kasli. Population (excluding the administrative center): 17,680 (2010 census); 14,955 (2002 Census); 30,627 (1989 Soviet census).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it has a status of a town with territorial district—a unit equal in status to administrative districts—the full name of which is The Town of Kasli and Kaslinsky District (город Касли и Каслинский район). As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kaslinsky Municipal District.

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Sources

Законодательное Собрание Челябинской области. Постановление №161 от 25 мая 2006 г. «Об утверждении перечня муниципальных образований (административно-территориальных единиц) Челябинской области и населённых пунктов, входящих в их состав», в ред.

Editorial summary

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

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 1924-02-27. For this dossier, Kaslinsky, District and municipal is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “municipal district in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Q1652753. Authority coordinates are 55.883, 60.750. 3 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.

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 “Kaslinsky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kaslinsky District primary sources, Kaslinsky District archive and Kaslinsky 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 “Kaslinsky District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kaslinsky 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.