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Dmitri Gusak

Russian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ5285504
Source-derived summary

Dmitri Vladimirovich Gusak (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Гусак; born 1 July 1985) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career

He played three seasons in the Russian Football National League for FC Petrotrest St. Petersburg, FC Dynamo Bryansk and FC Sportakademklub Moscow.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dmitri Gusak” is russian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dmitri, Gusak and Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-07-01. For this dossier, Dmitri, Gusak and Russian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “russian footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5285504. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dmitri Gusak”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dmitri Gusak primary sources, Dmitri Gusak archive and Dmitri research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dmitri Gusak”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Dmitri Gusak” 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.