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Maksim Rudakov

Russian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ26837941 ↗
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Maksim Alekseyevich Rudakov (Russian: Максим Алексеевич Рудаков; born 22 January 1996) is a Russian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Orenburg.

Career

Club

Rudakov made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Zenit Penza on 3 September 2016 in a game against FC Kaluga.

On 21 December 2017 Rudakov joined the Finnish club HJK on loan for one year with an extension option. On 9 November 2018, HJK confirmed that Rudakov's loan deal had been extended for an additional season.

On 12 February 2020, he signed a 4.5-year contract with Russian Premier League club FC Rostov. He made his Russian Premier League debut for Rostov on 16 May 2021 in a game against FC Krasnodar.

On 16 June 2021, he joined Rotor Volgograd on loan for the 2021–22 season. On 10 August 2021, the loan was terminated early. On 25 December 2021, Rostov announced that he will return to Finland and join Honka on loan for the 2022 season. The loan term was extended on 15 November 2022 to 31 July 2023.

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“Maksim Rudakov” enters the record as russian association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maksim, Rudakov and Russian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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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 Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26837941. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maksim Rudakov” 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.