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Andrei Samorukov

Russian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ4406875
Source-derived summary

Andrei Nikolayevich Samorukov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Саморуков; born 30 May 1970) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the goalkeepers' coach with the Under-20 squad of FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1987 for SK EShVSM Moscow.

Honours

Russian Premier League bronze: 1996.

Russian Cup finalist: 1995.

European club competitions

With FC Rotor Volgograd.

UEFA Cup 1994–95: 2 games.

UEFA Cup 1995–96: 4 games.

UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996: 8 games.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1987, 1996, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-05-30. The account is most persuasive where Andrei, Samorukov and Russian can be independently traced.
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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 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4406875. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1987, 1996 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from Andrei Samorukov” 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.