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Svoboda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ296469
Source-derived summary

Svoboda (Cyrillic: свобода) means "freedom" in various Slavic languages. It may refer to:

People

Svoboda (surname)

Organizations

Media

Radio Svoboda, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Svoboda (newspaper), a daily Ukrainian language newspaper published in New Jersey by Ukrainian National Association

Politics

Svoboda (political party) (All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"), a far right, conservative and ultranationalist political party in Ukraine

Freedom Movement (Slovenia)

Sports

NK Svoboda (disambiguation)

Places

Svoboda Factory Club, memorial building in Moscow

Svoboda, Pazardzhik Province, a village in Bulgaria

Svoboda nad Úpou, a town in the Czech Republic

Svoboda, a former name of the Russian town of Liski, Voronezh Oblast

Other uses

2559 Svoboda, asteroid

Svoboda, a lighting device designed by Josef Svoboda

Svoboda 1945: Liberation, a Czech point-and-click adventure game.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Svoboda” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Svoboda, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q296469. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1945.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 Svoboda” 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.