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Ruza (river)

river in Moscow Oblast, Russia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2088218 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ruza (Russian: Руза) is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Moskva. The length of the river is 145 kilometres (90 mi). The area of its basin is 1,990 square kilometres (770 sq mi). It usually freezes over in November and stays under the ice until April.

Editorial summary

“Ruza (river)” enters the record as river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ruza, river and Moscow 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 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ruza, river and Moscow.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ruza (river)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ruza, river and Moscow 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 Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2088218. VIAF identifies the subject as 315985676. The Library of Congress control number is n2015032005. Authority coordinates are 55.628, 36.281. 5 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Ruza (river)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ruza (river) primary sources, Ruza (river) archive and Ruza 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 “Ruza (river)”?
  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 “Ruza (river)” 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.