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Yaroslavka

village in Mikhaylovsky District, Amur Oblast, 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 authorityQ19908562
Source-derived summary

Yaroslavka (Russian: Ярославка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nizhneilyinovsky Selsoviet of Mikhaylovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2018. There are 2 streets.

Geography

Yaroslavka is located on the right bank of the Dim River, 48 km north of Poyarkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnyaya Ilyinovka is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Yaroslavka” as village in Mikhaylovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yaroslavka, village and Mikhaylovsky.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yaroslavka, village and Mikhaylovsky providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Yaroslavka”, the useful work is to connect “village in Mikhaylovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19908562. Authority coordinates are 49.912, 128.505. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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 “Yaroslavka”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yaroslavka primary sources, Yaroslavka archive and Yaroslavka 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 “Yaroslavka”?
  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 Yaroslavka” 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.