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Dzmitry Kavalyonak

Belarusian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ2094023 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dzmitry Yuryevich Kavalyonak (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Юр'евiч Кавалёнак; Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Ковалёнок; born 3 November 1977) is a Belarusian former professional footballer.

Career

Born in Minsk, Kavalyonak began playing football with FC Smena Minsk before joining the reserves of Swiss side FC Servette at age 18. He has spent most of his career in the Belarusian Premier League with FC Neman Grodno.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dzmitry Kavalyonak” as belarusian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dzmitry, Kavalyonak and Belarusian.

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—1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-11-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dzmitry, Kavalyonak and Belarusian providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dzmitry Kavalyonak”, the useful work is to connect “belarusian footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Oct 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2094023. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dzmitry Kavalyonak” 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.