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Nanaysky District

municipal district in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1042857 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nanaysky District (Russian: Нана́йский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. The area of the district is 27,644 square kilometers (10,673 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Troitskoye. Population: 17,491 (2010 census); 19,377 (2002 census); 21,168 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Troitskoye accounts for 29.4% of the district's total population.

Anyuysky National Park is located in Nanaysky District.

Geography

The Gur Swamps (Russian: Гурское болото) are an important wetland area located on the right bank of the Gur river in the district.

References

Sources

Правительство Хабаровского края. Постановление №143-пр от 18 июля 2007 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных и территориальных единиц Хабаровского края», в ред.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nanaysky, District and municipal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Nanaysky District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nanaysky, 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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1042857. Authority coordinates are 49.441, 136.553. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2007.

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 “Nanaysky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nanaysky District primary sources, Nanaysky District archive and Nanaysky 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 “Nanaysky District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Nanaysky 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.