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Uvelsky District

human settlement in Russia

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Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1658596 ↗
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Uvelsky District (Russian: Уве́льский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the eastern central part of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,330 square kilometers (900 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Uvelsky. Population: 31,867 (2010 census); 32,188 (2002 Census); 29,513 (1989 Soviet census). The population of the administrative center accounts for 33.0% of the district's total population.

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Законодательное Собрание Челябинской области. Постановление №161 от 25 мая 2006 г. «Об утверждении перечня муниципальных образований (административно-территориальных единиц) Челябинской области и населённых пунктов, входящих в их состав», в ред. Постановления №2255 от 23 октября 2014 г.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2002, 1989, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-05-24. For this dossier, Uvelsky, District and human is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1658596. VIAF identifies the subject as 145589237. The Library of Congress control number is n97007307. Authority coordinates are 54.433, 61.350. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 2006.

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