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Yuri Vechkasov

Russian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ107638396 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yuri Ivanovich Vechkasov (Russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Вечка́сов; 6 June 1948 – 17 March 2022) was a Russian politician. He served in the Federation Council from 1996 to 2001. He died in Penza on 17 March 2022, at the age of 73.

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“Yuri Vechkasov” enters the record as russian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yuri, Vechkasov and Russian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1948, 2022, 1996, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-06-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yuri, Vechkasov and Russian.
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Why this record matters

“Yuri Vechkasov” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yuri, Vechkasov and Russian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107638396. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2022, 1996 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yuri Vechkasov” 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.