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Tsumilukh

human settlement in Tlyaratinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ27061704
Source-derived summary

Tsumilukh (Russian: Цумилух) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Saniortinsky Selsoviet, Tlyaratinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: 993 (2010 census); 1,062 (2002 census); 688 (1989 Soviet census).

Geography

Tsumilukh is located 19 km southeast of Tlyarata (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rosnob is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tsumilukh” is human settlement in Tlyaratinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tsumilukh, human and settlement, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tsumilukh, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Tlyaratinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Apr 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27061704. Authority coordinates are 42.060, 46.412. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002 and 1989.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Tsumilukh”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tsumilukh primary sources, Tsumilukh archive and Tsumilukh 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 “Tsumilukh”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Tsumilukh” 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.