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Marina Sheshenina

volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2625252 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marina Igorevna Sheshenina (Russian: Марина Игоревна Шешенина) (born 26 June 1985 in Sverdlovsk) is a volleyball player from Russia, who plays as a setter. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, claiming the silver medal.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Marina Sheshenina” as volleyball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1985, 2006, 2004—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1985-06-26, 1985-06-28—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Marina, Sheshenina and volleyball can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as volleyball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2625252. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2006 and 2004.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Marina Sheshenina”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Marina Sheshenina primary sources, Marina Sheshenina archive and Marina 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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  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Marina Sheshenina” 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.