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Tuldun

human settlement in Yeravninsky District, Republic of Buryatia, 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 revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ21644743
Source-derived summary

Tuldun (Russian: Тулдун) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative centre of Tuldunskoye Rural Settlement, Yeravninsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 471 as of 2017. There are 13 streets.

Geography

Tuldun is located 22 km north of Sosnovo-Ozerskoye (the district's administrative centre) by road, Shiringa is the nearest rural locality, near the Maly Yeravna lake, part of the Yeravna-Khorga Lake System.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tuldun, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Yeravninsky District, Republic of Buryatia, 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

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 Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21644743. Authority coordinates are 52.688, 111.582. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Tuldun”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tuldun primary sources, Tuldun archive and Tuldun 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 “Tuldun”?
  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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This entry incorporates text from Tuldun” 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.