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Novovarshavsky District

municipal district in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ766752 ↗
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Novovarshavsky District (Russian: Нововарша́вский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,200 square kilometers (850 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Novovarshavka. Population: 24,450 (2010 Census); 27,461 (2002 census); 28,273 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Novovarshavka accounts for 24.1% of the district's total population.

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Законодательное Собрание Омской области. Закон №467-ОЗ от 15 октября 2003 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Омской области и о порядке его изменения», в ред. Закона №1591-ОЗ от 10 декабря 2013 г.

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The public source identifies “Novovarshavsky District” as municipal district in Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Novovarshavsky, District and municipal.

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—2010, 2002, 1989, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Novovarshavsky, District and municipal providing the first useful test.
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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 Oct 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q766752. Authority coordinates are 54.170, 74.697. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Novovarshavsky 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.