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Zerkaly

human settlement in Shipunovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4191548 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zerkaly (Russian: Зеркалы) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Zerkalsky Selsoviet, Shipunovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 659 as of 2013. There are 10 streets.

Geography

Zerkaly is located on the Zerkalnoye lake, 45 km northwest of Shipunovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Andreyevka is the nearest rural locality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zerkaly” is human settlement in Shipunovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zerkaly, 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—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zerkaly, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Shipunovsky District, Altai Krai, 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

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 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4191548. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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