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Sosnovsky District

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ3965140 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sosnovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The name is generally derived from or is related to the root "sosna" ("pine").

Districts

Sosnovsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Sosnovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Sosnovsky District, Tambov Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Tambov Oblast

Former districts

Sosnovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, an administrative district of Leningrad Oblast between 1948 and 1960, previously known as Rautovsky District.

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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—1948, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sosnovsky, District and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sosnovsky 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.