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Viktor Dmitryevich Baranov

Soviet cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ65031426 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viktor Dmitriyevich Baranov (30 January 1928 – 14 August 2005) was a Soviet cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 50 kilometre event at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Viktor Dmitryevich Baranov” as soviet cross-country skier. 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—1928, 2005, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-01-30. The account is most persuasive where Viktor, Dmitryevich and Baranov can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as soviet cross-country skier. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65031426. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2005 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Viktor Dmitryevich Baranov” 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.