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An inverse problem for determining the order of time-fractional derivative in a nonhomogeneous subdiffusion equation with an arbitrary elliptic differential operator with constant coefficients in $$N$$ -dimensional torus is considered. Using the classical Fourier method it is proved, that the value of the solution at a fixed time instant as the observation data recovers uniquely the order of fractional derivative. Generalization to an arbitrary $$N$$ -dimensional domain and to elliptic operators with variable coefficients is considered.