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Uspensky District

municipal district in Krasnodar Krai, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ918593 ↗
Source-derived summary

Uspensky District (Russian: Успе́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Uspensky Municipal District. It is located in the east of the krai. The area of the district is 1,229.98 square kilometers (474.90 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Uspenskoye. Population: 41,273 (2010 census); 40,873 (2002 census); 36,697 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Uspenskoye accounts for 30.1% of the district's total population.

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Управление по взаимодействию с органами местного самоуправления Администрации Краснодарского края. Справочная информация №34.01-707/13-03 от 23 мая 2013 г. «Реестр административно-территориальных единиц Краснодарского края».

Editorial summary

“Uspensky District” enters the record as municipal district in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Uspensky, District and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Uspensky, District and municipal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Uspensky District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Uspensky, District and municipal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q918593. Authority coordinates are 44.832, 41.382. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2013.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Uspensky District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Uspensky District primary sources, Uspensky District archive and Uspensky 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 “Uspensky District”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Uspensky 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.