Position: Shooting Guard

Date of birth: Jan 23, 1944      Died: Oct 03, 2013 (69)

Height: 190 cm

Place of Birth: Nashchekovo, Tomsk Region (Russia)

Nationality: Russia

Manager's Career:

1993-98 - Russian Basketball Federation, President;
2005-09 - Ural-Great PBC, President;
from 2010 - IES-Basket School League, Honorary President

Coach's Career:

1981-82 – CSKA Moscow, head coach;
1989-90 – CSKA Moscow, head coach;
1990-93 – Pallacanestro Cassino, Italy, head coach;
1994-98 – Russian National Team, head coach;
1999-04 – Ural-Great Perm, head coach

Athlete's Career:

1964-68 – Uralmash Sverdlovsk;
1968-80 – CSKA Moscow

Manager's Career:

Coach's Career:

2-times USSR champion (1982, 90), USSR championship bronze winner (1988) with CSKA Moscow… 2-times Russian champion (2001, 2002), NEBL champion (2001), 2-times Russian Championship runner-up (2000, 2003) with Ural-Great… 2-times World Championship runner-up (1994, 1998), Eurobasket bronze winner (1997) with Team Russia

Athlete's Career:

2-times European Champions Cup winner (1969, 1971), 11-times USSR champion (1969-74, 1976-1980), silver (1975) USSR Championship winner, USSR Cup winner (1973)… 3-times USSR People Spartakiade winner (1971, 75, 79) with Team Moscow… Olympic champion (1972), 3-times Olympic bronze winner (1968, 76, 80), 2-times world champion (1967, 74), World vice-champion (1978), World Championship bronze winner (1970), 4-times European champion (1967, 69, 71, 79), 2-times European vice-champion (1975, 77), European bronze winner (1973), Universiade champion (1970) with Team USSR… 1970 World Championship and 1969 European Championship MVP… He was given the honor of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Moscow… Basketball Hall-of-Famer (inducted on 11-May-1992), included in FIBA Hall of Fame and in the list of 50 greatest players in FIBA and Euroleague history