Tagir Gadzhiev also spelled as Tahir Gadziev (born 29 March 1994) is a Dagestani

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player who generally plays as a Flanker represents

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internationally. He was included in the Russian squad for the

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which is scheduled to be held in Japan for the first time and also marks his first World Cup appearance.

Career

He made his international debut for Russia against

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on 13 November 2015.

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