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Selemdzhinsky District

human settlement in Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2218626 ↗
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Selemdzhinsky District (Russian: Селемджи́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 46,672 square kilometers (18,020 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Ekimchan. Population: 11,639 (2010 census); 11,808 (2002 Census); 20,632 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Ekimchan accounts for 10.4% of the district's total population.

Geography

The Selemdzha Range, Ezop Range, Yam-Alin Range and the northern part of the Turan Range, are located in the district. River Selemdzha and its tributaries Ulma, Byssa and Nora flow across the district.

References

Sources

Амурский областной Совет народных депутатов. Закон №127-ОЗ от 23 декабря 2005 г. «О порядке решения вопросов административно-территориального устройства Амурской области», в ред.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Selemdzhinsky District” as human settlement in Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926. The account is most persuasive where Selemdzhinsky, District and human can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2218626. Authority coordinates are 53.071, 132.939. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Selemdzhinsky 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.