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Aleksandr Kovalyov (football manager)

Russian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ4715363 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleksandr Petrovich Kovalyov (Russian: Александр Петрович Ковалёв; born 12 October 1950) is a Russian professional football coach.

Career

Kovalyov managed Russian First League side Lokomotiv Chita. He was president of First Division side Zvezda Irkutsk from 2006 to 2008.

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The public source identifies “Aleksandr Kovalyov (football manager)” as russian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aleksandr, Kovalyov and football.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2006, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-10-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aleksandr, Kovalyov and football providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4715363. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950, 2006 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleksandr Kovalyov (football manager)” 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.