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Gora Nevskaya

mountain in 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 revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ31622690 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gora Nevskaya (Russian: гора Невская, meaning "Nevsky Mountain") is a mountain in the Omsukchan Range, Kolyma Mountains. Administratively, it is part of the Magadan Oblast, Russian Federation.

This 1,828 m (5,997 ft) high mountain is the highest point of the Kolyma Mountains, part of the East Siberian Mountains. The highest point in Magadan Oblast, however, is the highest peak of the Okhandya Range.

A Dalstroy Aviation Antonov An-2 crashed on the mountainside by Mount Nevskaya in June 1951.

Editorial summary

“Gora Nevskaya” enters the record as mountain in Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gora, Nevskaya and mountain can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gora, Nevskaya and mountain.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

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 Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q31622690. Authority coordinates are 62.226, 155.439. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Gora Nevskaya”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gora Nevskaya primary sources, Gora Nevskaya archive and Gora 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 “Gora Nevskaya”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gora Nevskaya” 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.