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- ↑ "International Rugby Board - KAZAKHSTAN". Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
- 1 2 Rugby union in Russia and USSR Archived 11 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
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