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Nikita Popov

Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ4372550 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nikita Popov (born July 11, 1992) is a Russian ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with Sokol Krasnoyarsk of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL).

Popov made his Kontinental Hockey League debut playing with Severstal Cherepovets during the 2011–12 KHL season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nikita Popov” is russian ice hockey player (born 1992). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nikita, Popov and Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1992, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-07-11. For this dossier, Nikita, Popov and Russian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “russian ice hockey player (born 1992)” 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 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 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4372550. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2011.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikita Popov” 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.