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Hennadiy Lytovchenko

Ukrainian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ921830 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hennadiy Volodymyrovych Lytovchenko (Ukrainian: Геннадій Володимирович Литовченко; Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Литовченко, Gennadiy Vladimirovich Litovchenko; born 11 September 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He was a member of the Soviet squad that finished runners-up at UEFA Euro 1988.

At his peak he was considered one of the finest midfielders in European football.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hennadiy Lytovchenko” as ukrainian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hennadiy, Lytovchenko and Ukrainian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-09-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hennadiy, Lytovchenko and Ukrainian providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q921830. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hennadiy Lytovchenko” 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.