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Aleksandr Cherkes

Russian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4513162 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Cherkes (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Черкес; born 2 September 1976) is a Russian football coach and a former player.

Playing career

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Fakel Voronezh.

On 17 June 2008, Cherkes signed a 2.5-year contract with FC Rostov.

Personal life

His son Yevgeni Cherkes is now a professional footballer.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aleksandr Cherkes” as russian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1976, 2000, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-09-02. The account is most persuasive where Aleksandr, Cherkes and Russian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as russian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4513162. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2000 and 2008.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Aleksandr Cherkes”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleksandr Cherkes” 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.