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Aleksandr Mastyanin

soviet sports shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ84852557 ↗
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Aleksandr Mastyanin (28 November 1952 – 28 May 2020) was a Soviet sports shooter. He competed in the mixed 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Aleksandr Mastyanin” as soviet sports shooter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aleksandr, Mastyanin and soviet.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 2020, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-11-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aleksandr, Mastyanin and soviet providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Aleksandr Mastyanin” 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.