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Kurchaloyevsky District

municipal district in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ659105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kurchaloyevsky District (Russian: Курчало́евский райо́н; Chechen: Курчалойн кӀошт, Kurçaloyn khoşt) is one of the fifteen administrative and municipal district (raion), in the Chechen Republic, Russia. The area of the district is 975 square kilometers (376 sq mi) and is located east of the republic. Its administrative center is the town of Kurchaloy. Its population is 114,039 (2010 census); 101,625 (2002 Census). The population of Kurchaloy accounts for 19.9% of the district's total population.

Healthcare

State health facilities are represented by one central district hospital in Kurchaloy and two district hospitals in Tsotsin-Yurt and Alleroy.

Ethnography and notable people

The district is home to Aleroj Teip (associated with the selo of Alleroy), and is a birthplace of both former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and former Minister of National Security Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev.

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Sources

Президент Чеченской Республики. Указ №500 от 30 ноября 2005 г. «Об утверждении перечня субъектов административно-территориального устройства Чеченской Республики».

Editorial summary

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

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, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-01-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kurchaloyevsky, District and municipal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kurchaloyevsky District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kurchaloyevsky, District and municipal provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q659105. Authority coordinates are 43.202, 46.090. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002 and 2005.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Kurchaloyevsky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kurchaloyevsky District primary sources, Kurchaloyevsky District archive and Kurchaloyevsky 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

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  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kurchaloyevsky 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.