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Mikhaylovka, Sakha Republic

human settlement in Somorsunsky Rural Okrug, Amginsky District, Sakha Republic, Russia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16736455 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mikhaylovka (Russian: Михайловка) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Somorsunsky Rural Okrug in Amginsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 59 kilometers (37 mi) from Amga, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 859, down from 878 recorded during the 2002 Census.

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Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Amginsky District. (in Russian)

Государственное Собрание (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №173-З №353-III от 30 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1058-З №1007-IV от 25 апреля 2012 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)"».

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“Mikhaylovka, Sakha Republic” enters the record as human settlement in Somorsunsky Rural Okrug, Amginsky District, Sakha Republic, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mikhaylovka, Sakha and Republic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16736455. Authority coordinates are 61.200, 132.683. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 2004 and 1058.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mikhaylovka, Sakha Republic” 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.