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Maccabi Moscow

Jewish-Russian sports club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4275738
Source-derived summary

FC Maccabi Moscow (Russian: футбольный клуб Маккаби Москва) was a Russian amateur association football club, based in Moscow. The club was founded by the Russian Jewish businessman Pavel Feldblum in 2003, from the Jewish Community of Moscow. It became bankrupt in 2010, and dissolved that same year.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Maccabi Moscow” is jewish-Russian sports club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maccabi, Moscow and Jewish-Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918. For this dossier, Maccabi, Moscow and Jewish-Russian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “jewish-Russian sports club” 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

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4275738. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2010.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Maccabi Moscow primary sources, Maccabi Moscow archive and Maccabi 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Maccabi Moscow” 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.