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Association Football in Imperial Russia emerged in the late nineteenth century. Both Scottish and English immigrants are attributed as playing a significant role in the introduction of the sport into the lands of Imperial Russia.[1][2]
British sailors played the first recorded game of football in Russian Empire in Odessa in the 1860s.[3]
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