Gennady Georgievich Volnov - owner of a unique collection of sports and labor awards and titles. Over the years of the speeches, playing for the position of Forward, ten times became the Champion of the USSR as part of the Team of CSKA (1959 - 1969), three times was the winner of the European Champions Cup. As part of the team of the Soviet Union on Basketball six times, the European Champion (1959-1969) became a member of four Olympiads: in 1960, 1964 won silver medals, in 1968 - bronze medal, in 1972 - the title of Olympic Champion . G.Volnov - Master of Sport international class (1966), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1984).

Born on November 28, 1939 in Moscow. Father - Volnov Georgy Prokofievich (Rod. 05/10/1912). Mother - Volnov Vera Vasilyevna (born 09/30/1914). Daughter - Volnova Svetlana (born 29.04.1962).

In 1967 he entered the Smolensk Institute of Physical Culture, where he studied until 1971. After graduation, the teacher received a specialty teacher. For thirty-four years - service in the Armed Forces (1958-1992). From 1958 to 1969, Gennady Volnov performed for the basketball team of the Central Sport Club Army (Moscow).

Gennady Georgievich Volnov - owner of a unique collection of sports and labor awards and titles. Over the years of the speeches, playing for the position of Forward, ten times became the Champion of the USSR as part of the Team of CSKA (1959 - 1969), three times was the winner of the European Champions Cup. As part of the team of the Soviet Union on Basketball six times, the European Champion (1959-1969) became a member of four Olympiads: in 1960, 1964 won silver medals, in 1968 - bronze medal, in 1972 - the title of Olympic Champion . G.G. Volnov - Master of Sports of the International Class (1966), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1984). For outstanding progress in the development of basketball awarded state awards: Order "Honor Sign", twice with medals "for labor valor" and a medal "For Labor Difference".

After the end of the sports career was engaged pedagogical activitiesHe was the head of the department at the Chemical Protection Academy (1970 - 1992). He received the academic title of associate professor, then Professor. It has military rank Colonel.

In his free time gives preference to books. He loves his cottage in the Moscow region, which he built with his own hands than is very proud of. It continues to regularly play basketball, stands for the team of veterans of Russia.

Honored Master of Sport of the USSR, olympic champion, Two Silver and Bronze Prize-winner of the Olympic Games, World Champion, Six-time European Champion, Three-time European Champions Cup, Tentkey Champion of the USSR, Two-time Winner of the Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR, Professor, Colonel

Each generation of athletes have their heroes, the names of which remain in memory for a long time. One of these in the 1960-190s was Gennady Georgievich Volnov - the legendary basketball player CSKA and the USSR national team. One of the most titled players in the domestic basketball, the winner of the four Olympiads, an outstanding sniper, he possessed a high technique, the ability to overcome the opponent, stood out of the special, "Volnovskaya" elegance. Gennady Volnova featured a unique talent. He was the first of the two-meter Soviet players from the ring to attack, - before him, all the giants players scored only from under the shield. Krasovetsa-Brunette with a gray marks on his head knew and loved the whole basketball world.

Gennady Georgievich Volnov was born on November 28, 1939 in Moscow. Father - Volnov Georgy Prokofievich (1913-1941), Political Army, Listener of the Military Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin. Mother Volnova Vera Vasilyevna (1914-1993). Spouse - Volnova (Ozudina) Svetlana Alekseevna (1940. Born), graduated from Miit, in the specialty power engineer; Master of Sports of the USSR for basketball. Daughter - Tamazashvili Svetlana Gennadievna (1962 born) graduated from the Institute of Communication, Engineer in Informatics. Granddaughters: Tamazashvili Elsa Tamazovna (1986 born.) And Tamazashvili Tamara Tamazovna (1988 born).

Born shortly before the Great Patriotic War, His Father Gennady did not have time to learn. On June 23, 1941, Georgy Volnov was submitted to the current army and was missing under unclear circumstances. Left without a husband, Faith Vasilyevna Volnova with a little son in his hands did not receive a penny for missing on the front, because there was no confirmation of his death. In the hungry war years, the little gene constantly hurt, and for amendments to health, the doctors advised her mother to send him to the village.

There, in the village of Konakovo, the Tver region, the boy has lived at his native aunt on the mother. Maria Vasilyevna Swedov disappeared the hungry gene with pair milk. In 1947, the Son returned to Mom to Moscow. He again began to pursue the disease, and the doctors more than once saved Volos from death. Permanent poverty, malnutrition - Mother on a shoe factory received pennies, which were enough for a while. The boy had one sole desire to eat.

In pioneers and to the Komsomol, the gene did not take on due to the fact that the confirmation of the death of George Prokofievich was not. It came too late, only in 1980.

What basketball for a long time Volnov did not think. He was grew by the usual boy, but by the 7th class for the year he was dried at once at 20 (!) Santimeters, and then stretched up to the upstream and still - this is with weight of only 60 kilograms.

The guys with whom he studied the gene was absorbed in sports, and he was not at all interested. One day, comrades still managed to persuade Volnov to go with them to the stadium. It was on August 14, 1956 during the match I Summer Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR between the basketball players of Latvia and Kazakhstan. But he walked not to look at sports battles, but at the two highest people in Europe - Wierce Akhtyaev (232 cm) and Janis Krumins (218 cm). He walked to see them, but saw basketball. In the US, in the homeland of basketball, they say that if the teenager did not take the ball until twelve years, he could not take it. As if the talented boy is neither, the right will still be a little. Gennady simply did not know what sport is. In those years, coaches went to Moscow schools and took capable guys in their clubs. In the Soviet Union, schoolchildren were held every year. Teenagers of two-meter growth were invited to join the basketball section, regardless of whether they were able to play or not.

In 1957, the famous coach Yuri Vartanovich Dohalov came to school in which Gennadan studied, and invited the high young man to train to himself. The decisive argument in favor of the section was the opportunity to get a free form and coupons for food. Sports form, games, friends. From the large group selected the team that the outstanding children's coach Vitaly Mikhailovich Yaroshevsky was engaged, subsequently left Russia.

Yaroshevsky was the first to see the high psychodynamic possibilities of Volnov: with a two-year height, the young man had excellent coordination, was plastic, which was a rarity for the centered. At that time, the growth, as a rule, was decisive, and sometimes the only measure for the player. However, liberties will prove with their example that in addition to the growth of other advantages.

Since 1957, Gennady began to engage in basketball professionally. In the future, Volnov trained under the leadership of coaches of the first magnitude: E.N. Alekseeva, S.S. Spandaryarya, A.Ya. Gomel, V.P. Kondrashin, but V.M. Yaroshevsky remained a coach for him, without which he would not become an outstanding basketball player. At the age of 17, Gennady ran his badly, even worse jumped, quickly tired, and his athlete could be called with stretch. The first commandment he heard from Vitaly Mikhailovich was like this: "Basketball is legs". Since then began individual training 5-6 hours a day - a colossal load.

In the same year, the first serious successes followed. As part of the Moscow national team, Gennady took part in the All-Union Games of Schoolchildren in Riga, where the team under the leadership of V.M. Yaroshevsky ranked first. Then the novice athlete earned the title of the best player of the tournament.

After such success, V.M. Yaroshevsky appointed head coach basketball Club higher League - Moscow "Spartak". He immediately introduced Gennady to the "team of engineers", as she was then called: all players were with higher education, intellectually developed people. Gennady has only a reference to the end of the 9th grade.

The first year in the big basketball turned to the freestyle test. The basketball community was perplexed: why do the boy release this? Players team attacked coach: "Vitaly Mikhailovich, stop setting in Gzeku". And he shouted and stubbornly put. Volnov continued to train and eventually made skeptics silence. V.M. Yaroshevsky then said: "Remember this guy, now he is not a very strong center, and in a couple of years he will be the best striker of the country."

During the USSR Championship of 1958, playing the position of the Center in Spartak, Gennady in six matches in each game scored 25-30 points. Upon completion of the tournament, offers from different clubs. By virtue of age, the young athlete was to serve in the army, and he moved to the Moscow Basketball Club CSKA. 1959-1969 In domestic basketball will be the triumphal epoch of Gennady Volnov.

In the late 1950s, Moscow army teams had the title of the forever second team after the invincible Riga SKA led by the Giant Center Janis Kruminh. In one of the interviews, Gennady Georgievich recalled: "Throw from above in the jump I began to actively train back in the late 1950s. At that time, no one did us. I was the first in the Union, who scored from above in the game. And did it not somewhere, but in Riga during the match with the local SCA - the strongest then the club of Europe. The spectators filling the audience literally frozen from amazement, when I beat Croominza and after the passage I saw the ball into the ring. They did not immediately understand what happened. "

In 1959, many CSKA players set off as part of the USSR national team for the World Cup in Chile. And the country's championship continued. By participating in the 1959 tournament, the youth staff of CSKA won gold medals, and Gennady was rightfully entrenched in the main composition of the army team. Then he was included in the national team.

In a quiet corner of the Caucasian coast, Lestelidze, the Basketball players of the USSR national team were preparing for the next championship of the continent. The day was filled with hard work with lifting and to the penalty: Charging, lessons of general physical preparation, work on technology, double-sided games ... "The guys are loaded to the limit", - said the team coach Stepan Surenovich Spandaryaryan.

When they fell out free MinutesAnd the athletes sought to hide in the shadow, to rest, cool in the sea, the training platform did not remain free: she did not leave Gennady Volnov. He worked out from medium and distant distances, a bombarding ring then from the corners, then in the center, then from the place, then in the jump. And every day, the balls are increasingly and more often went to the basket. He picked up them, went into the depths of the site, and threw again, and ... smiling. In the face of his pove streams rolled, a huge dark spot was sprawling on a T-shirt.

"Where does he have such fanaticism?" - once they asked about the liberty of his friend on the team of Arkady Bochkarev. " This is not fanaticism, he answered. - This is love for basketball. Genk is in blood. He can play when you like, as you like and with anyone. In the very bad training match, he fights for the victory, perhaps, with the same passion, with such a fierce and uncompromising, as and somewhere in the world championship ".

It was love and devotion to basketball that Gennady Volnova made an outstanding master of his business, a laid sniper, wise and subtle tactic, unsurpassed technician.

In May 1959, Volnov won his first (out of six!) gold medal European champion. At the championship of the continent, held in Turkey, the USSR national team played abroad - in the slow durable basketball with a long drawing ball and throws from a static position. The free game made a revolution in the amateur basketball, where they were accustomed to the harsh giants that were scored from under the shield. He was the first and for a long time the only player in Europe with a wide playing range: he could play both a light center, and as an extreme striker, and as an attacker defender. It could complete the passage under the shield of the throw from above, could sniper pierced in a jump from the very corner of the site - with a trajectory parallel to the shield plane. Throw from the jump at Volnova was also unusual for that time. He threw as professionals from NBA currently cast: with "hanging" in the air and fixation of the body and brush at the highest point. It is difficult to call a different basketball player of that time, the game that the audience liked so much.

In August 1959, the II Summer Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR was held - the Supernir, in which the national teams of Moscow, Leningrad and all the Union republics performed. The head coach of the metropolitan team Yevgeny Alekseev, along with other army players, included Gennady Volnov in its composition. In a fierce fight against the Georgian SSR team and its traditionally difficult rivals - the Latvian SSR - Muscovites won the Soviet Olympics and laid a solid foundation in a long history of victories in the Union tournaments.

Once, Gennady stated in an interview with the correspondent of "Soviet Sport":

"It seems to me that the closest future of basketball is, first of all, high dynamism. The monotonous game "On the post" will definitely give way to the tempo and beautiful struggle, which will need to be conducted throughout the field. The hosts of the situation will be quick, sharp and taking athletes. "It took quite a bit of time, and this forecast was fulfilled completely. The rules of "three seconds" and "thirty seconds", as, however, and some others, changed the face of the game, breathed into it new life, And something amazing thing happened: an indisputable force and, it seemed, the abundant power of old, tested masters was somewhat faded, and the skill of Gennady Volnova broke out such a bright light that he was soon recognized as one of the leading players of the country.

In 1960, the Great Era CSKA began in the domestic basketball. Head coach E.N. Alekseev, having a blanche card, acknowledges the army club the best players of the country. "Easy" striker Gennady Volnov becomes one of the key links. The team outstanding in its characteristics showed basketball, which has not been played by another European team. Throughout six seasons (1960-1966), Moscow CSKA holds the title of Champions of the All-Union Championship.

At its first Olympic Games, held in Rome in 1960, the city of Volnov as part of the national team went with colleagues in the Army team V. Zubkov, M. Semenov, "Rijanis" M. Valdmanis, Ya. Kruminh, V. Muizhnikes, Kievanin A. Waltin, Moscow Dynamo A. Petrov and Georgian masters of Minashvili and V. Ugregelidze. The team, headed by S. Spandayn, fought for a place under the sun with the best teams of the world, giving way in the final only to basketball grants - US national team (81:57), for which the future stars of professional basketball jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Jerry Lucas. "Silver" Roman Games has become the first of four olympic awards Gennady Volnova.

In 1961, Moscow CSKA under the leadership of the head coach Evgeny Alekseeva opened the bill of victories in the European Champions Cup, beating the three-time owners of the silver basket in the final of the tournament of the three-time owners of the silver basket - Riga SKA under the control of A.Ya. Gomel. In the same year, Gennady Volnov wins his second title of European champion in the national team.

In 1963, the debut of A.Ya. Gomelsky as a senior coach of the USSR national team at the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro. The national team was represented by the best players of those years, including four armiests - the center of V. Zubkov, the attackers of Volnov and Yu. Korneev, defender A. Travin. Being teams of France, (54:48), United States (75:74), Puerto Rico (64:55), but, lifting in the decisive fights of Brazil (79:90) and Yugoslavia (67:69), Soviet players became third in the world.

In the same year, Moscow CSKA continued victory tradition In the joke of the European Champions Cup. This time the royal club of Spain "Real" (Madrid) became an opponent of the army. In a duel from three matches (69:86, 91:74, 99:80), CSKA defeated the title of the Best Club of Europe of 1963.

Sniper accuracy Gennady Volnova was unsurpassed. He played elegant, beautiful, gaining, as a rule, more than 20 points per match. But his power was not only in throws. In the basketball, he knew how to do everything or almost everything. To become a big master, you need to have a talent. Here is the basketball talent of Gennady and was endowed. Volnov was created for this game - two-meter growth did not take excellent speed and coordination of movements, striking jumping. And even with great giftedness from nature, he would never be a great liberty, if it were not for his huge hardworking and an inacrist love for basketball.

As part of the Moscow national team, together with A. Alacchean, A. Astakhov, A. Bochkarev, V. Zubkov, Y. Korneyev, A. Kulkov, Ya. Lipso, A. Byravinov and several Dynamo Volnov became the winner of the III Summer Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR , held in August 1963.

To the main start of the four-year-old - the Olympic Games 1964 in Tokyo - the best players of their time went to Tokyo: Army team of Volnov, A. Alacachean, Yu. Korneev, Ya. Lipso, A. Travin, Riga Ya. Kruminsh and V. Muizhneek, Moscow Dynamovtsy A. Petrov, V. Khrynin, Kievlyanin N. Bagley, Latvian Yu. Kalnynsh, Georgian L. Mosausevvi. Tokyo fully had to experience the peculiarity of the Olympic tournament - by the heat of passions, the concentration of will to victory, nervous and physical Loads. The USSR national team reached the final without losses, defeated on the path of all rivals. The final confrontation with the stars of the American basketball was completed for the wards A.Ya. Gomelovsky with a score 73:59. Gennady Volnov hung on the chest second Olympic "silver".

Becoming the leader of the national team, its soul, Gennady Georgievich for five years was its generally accepted, unchanged captain. In 1964, V.M. Yaroshevsky so responded about the game of Volnov: « Cepete dream Each coach is to find a giant that would be in speed and mobility did not inferdate the players of normal human growth. His height is 2 meters, but it is felt when the game goes at the level of "attic." Nature has endowed Volnov with excellent intuition, a sense of distance and a combination of gaming excitement with absolute composure. That is why he is never an obstacle to partners with his impressive dimensions. Gennady born for basketball. "

On May 30, 1965, Gennady Volnov raised the Flag of the XIV World Basketball Championships at the Moscow Stadium "Luzhniki". Such is the privilege of the captain of the team, which seemed the winner of the previous competition. Catching through the Silk Flag with his hands, oh thought about the upcoming contest. Probably, no one with such a discordant imagined how difficult will the struggle be. After the games in Tokyo, the USSR national team was updated almost half. The old, tempered in many battles, glorifying the domestic basketball athletes - Janis Kruminsh, Yuri Korniev ... Young people came to replace - glorious, talented, but not yet fired guys. Gennady fully felt the share of responsibility that fell in this tournament personally on him as a veteran, captain and an athlete enjoying the fame of the best player. On the eve of the evening, the 20-year-old debutant of the Modestas national team Palauskas said Gennady: "You are good, you already have already what" luggage "games. Don't worry ". Over the shoulders of Volnova really had a solid dossier: several European Championships, two Olympics, world championship, Eurocup ...

"Did that make it easier? - Not", - he replied to Modestas, - "You're wrong. When I went to my first match, I was worried terrible. But he spoke: "Nothing, I will acquire experience, and it will pass." But every year, before each competition I was worried at no less. Worried when he was admitted to the CSKA team, worried when he became a player of the Moscow national team and Soviet Union. Before each new test, I told myself: "Nothing, I will come, and peace will come." But it is not. Whatever the match, I feel how the heart is cold. So, probably, the actor is worried before entering the scene, the surgeon before the operation, the artist, beginning to exercise his creative intent. It is not worried about why the failure is afraid, but because he wants everything to be even better than yesterday. "In these words, in this phrase - all the libes. Creative concern never left him, he all the time sought to open something new, interesting.

Before the start of the European Championship of the famous French coach, Robert Busnels was asked to be a member of the jury, who was supposed to take away the best player of the tournament. R. Busnel invitation accepted and immediately stated: "The best player will be free. Anyway, one voice has already has ".

On the eve of the tournament, the willy lot of the two main applicants for entering the semi-final from the Moscow subgroup - the USSR and Italy - they met among themselves on the first day of the contest. The national team is relatively easily overclocked by its Grozny rival - 87:48. But the main match took place in the final against irreconcilable rivals - the team of Yugoslavia. The focus was paid to the problem of the Yugoslav leader - the Great Radium Koracha. A patronage of the famous sniper was instructed by Gennady, and a miracle happened: the Koracha did not become visible. For the first time in the history of the Yugoslav team, coaches for a long time increased him from the site. The role of the leader Attack took on Giurich. Modeptas Palauskas could not cope with the guardian, and then Jurich's guardian was reconciled. Until the 35th minute, until Gennady left the platform, Giurich added only two points to his team's account.

"He played throughout the tournament Rivne, with unrelentable magnificence", "said the Italian athlete of Gianfranco Lombardi about the libertion of the Moscow public. This is the special jury, composed of the most prominent specialists of the European Basketball. It called Gennady Volnova best player Championship and awarded him a special prize of the Soviet Sport newspaper.

The press then wrote: "Wolnov Elegance in the best sense of the word. Everything he can, but he knows how much he does not only well, but also very beautiful. Gennady is akin to a large actor, which nature in addition to the talent endowed a happy appearance. Gennady is truly beautiful on the site. And he knows this, knows the price of his beauty, but, as it should be the present man, does not admire himself. Volnov became the first Soviet, the first European basketball player, who laid the ball in the basket with two hands on top. After him, they learned to do many. But no one does it so beautiful and naturally like freesties. Whenever the attack could be completed and more simple, but whenever the liberals with the ball trembles over the basket, it begins to seem to appear that only so could have been attacked by free. Volnov knows how much. Much, however, not all. The team coaches in which he plays, E. Alekseev (CSKA) and A. Gomelsky (USSR national team) require one to learn how to conduct a power struggle. Gennady is an excellent technician, in all cases of life he focuses on pure beat. Unfortunately, for Volnov, far from everyone interpret basketball as he. And in cases where Gennady took a security officer, he usually passed. With pressure, he does not give up his hands when he imposes a nearby battle. In his club CSKA, the six-time champion of the country, and in all prefabricated (Moscow, Sun and the USSR) of the Volnov - striker of the starting five. "

On June 10, 1965, Gennady Volnov, the Competition Flag lowered the Flag of the Competition turned to the failure of the Palace of Sports in Luzhniki - Such is the privilege of the captain of the national team, which turned out to be the winner of the championship. Such is the right of a person who is the best athlete and a leader the best team continent.

Upon completion of the European Championship, Gennady was invited to build an amplua striker to the national team of the continent. US national team coach John Mclandon said "From the services of such an attacker, as a liberty, would not refuse any of the nine professional clubs USA".

In 1967, Gennady Volnov, among the best army players, went to the World Cup in the capital Uruguay Montevideo. The head coach of the team A.Ya. Gomel recalled:

"We had two compositions: one high-speed, with constant pressure and counterattack, the other is more relaxed, positional. The opponents could not adapt to such a tactical diversity. Quick composition included: Z. Santaredze, the fastest Georgian, who did not run, and literally gone like jigit on a luxury horse; Next to him Moskvich Y. Selikhov, a tireless, tenant defender, in the center of A. POLUSOVOD - Ukrainian Bogatyr running so quickly that the basketball court, as he said, was "small" to him; At the edges of M. Paulauskas - fighter, sniper, team leader and the most experienced G. Volnov. The second composition: Ya. Lipso, R. Thomson, V. Andreev. And a couple of defenders: S. Belov - Then the player of the Sverdlovsk "Uralmash" and the future Armequet, and A. Travin. As always, the most difficult and interesting games For us were meetings with teams of the United States, Brazil and Yugoslavia. In the preliminary subgroup, the USSR national team defeated its opponents: Argentina - 105: 66, Japan - 95:46, Peru - 84:46. In the final, despite the rapid support of 15 thousand fans, the owners of the tournament were originated - 60:54. Even more stubborn was the match with the team of Brazil. Gennady Volnov shone in this game, he brought 28 points team ... We pulled out the victory 78:74. In general, Brazilians could not keep Volnov in any competitions, the guys joked: Well, the gene, today your customers, and so it was always. Finally, there was a match with Yugoslavia, which we won 71:59, and became champions of the world. "

After the triumphant tournament in Uruguay, where Gennady Volnov was recognized as the best player, the leadership of the national team stopped putting a basketball player in the starting five. The team has changed the generation of players - Sergey and Alexander Belovy, Modestas Paulauskas, Alexander Bolev, Anatoly Polyvoda. From the former players only he remained, the veteran of Gennady Volnov.

In August 1967, CSKA as the head coach received Armenac Alachachian. In 1967 and 1968, the Moscow army teams and the Moscow national team at the IV Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR and in the country's championship won bronze medals.

In 1969, together with the CSKA team, Gennady Volnov, after a long break, made his way to the final of the European Champions Cup final and again met with the Royal Club "Real" (Madrid). Paradox, but, playing against the Spaniards, the army team received the most powerful support for the tribune. Catalans were desperately painted against Real and passionately supported CSKA. The army team won (103: 99) and adopted congratulations from Generalissimus Franco, who gave them a silver basket.

In the 1969/1970 season, the post of head coach CSKA was taken by Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky.

In 1969, in the quality of the former merit services, Volnov still included in the national team for the European Championship. Colleague Gennady in the CSKA club and the USSR team, Olympic champion Sergei Belov recalled:

"Incoming the main team turned out to be difficult for Veteran Gennady Volnov - until recently, my" uncle "in CSKA. Apparently, he was no longer in the plans of Gomel to update the national team. On the approach to the composition there was a young light forward Tbilisi "Dynamo" Mikhail Korkia - a competitor Gennady for a place in the national team. It seemed that the five-time champion of Europe would be the 13th excess ...

Everything has been brought to the fact that Gennady successfully performed at the tournament in Tallinn at the decisive stage of preparation, and players in which main coach I did a bid, in particular, with Paulauskas, actively made it for the inclusion of it in the team. This time the story ended for the Free Happi Endom - he was taken to Europe, where he in the final match was one of the best and helped a team. "

Indeed, at the European Championships in Naples, Volnova until the very end of the tournament did not put on games. The USSR national team struggled to the final. Yugoslav winners preliminary games, with a big advantage won the first half. Gennady Volnov, who stayed at the tournament in Opal from the coaches, went to the platform in the final match, played (and in the whole championship) 20 minutes, bringing a team of 26 points. He helped withdraw the USSR national team in European champions (81:72) and for these 20 minutes was recognized as the best player of the tournament! He was still not equal ... Nevertheless, Gennady Volnov turned out to be unclaimed.

"In the spring of 1970, the team still remained without his many years of leader and Captain Gennady Volnov. Over the age of one and a half years, he experienced a double pressure - from Armenaca Alacchean in the club and from Gomel's team in the national team. As a result, Gennady was expelled from everywhere - his incompassion of the national team, going to the World Championship in Ljubljana, became a signal for the club manual, "- wrote in his book "Movement up S.A. Belov.

Gennady Georgievich seriously began to think about leaving the sport. The deep meaning of the coaching idea to exclude it from the team at the European Championship-1970 is still not clear. The result was the third place after the prefabricated Yugoslavia and Brazil and the resignation of coaches.

From the club CSKA Volnov survived to the detriment sports Glava countries. He replenished "Nice" list of exiles - M. Semenova, V. Zubkov, Yu. Korneeva, A. Alacachean, A. Travin. In total, the legendary basketball player held 318 matches, from them a lot of meetings played for the national team, which was faithfully served for 10 years.

In 1971, Gennady Georgievich graduated from the Moscow branch of the Smolensk Institute of Physical Culture. It was planned to translate it to the Khabarovsky Military District by the boss on General physical training. On the advice of the former player of CSKA and the national team of Alexander Travin, he settled a teacher of physical training at the Military Academy of Chemical Protection of the Tymoshenko, where it worked as many as 23 years. Starting a new life and realizing that if here, as in sports, do not give out of all work, then you will not achieve anything. Being an officer, he taught military schools to physical training. Along the way, I collected and headed the basketball team from the academy listeners and about returning to big sport Did not think.

In the spring of 1972, Gennady Volnov, as a player coach, brought the team of the Academy to Leningrad to the championship of the Armed Forces. Among his participants were very strong teams, including the Club of the Higher League - Kiev Sk. The coach of the USSR team, Vladimir Petrovich Kondrashin, came to look at these games, who, according to gaming alarm and skill in leadership, was unlikely to have equal. In his eyes, the team of the Academy won one match after another and went to the final.

It seemed that the game era of Volos was irrevocably left in the spring of 1970. Nevertheless, Vladimir Kondrashin made him an unexpected proposal to go to the Olympic basketball tournament in Munich. To the 1972 Olympiad remained for several months. Gennady Georgievich agreed with the condition that he will play as part of the USSR national team. I invites him, Vladimir Kondrashin made it clear that in Munich, he, coach, will make a bet on veterans who do not occupy experience. For better training, Volnova was submitted to the Moscow team "Dynamo". Not immediately he shone the game. But then, in the match with the Kiev "builder", he already reminded that Volnov, who admired in previous years. IN friendly match In the IC "Olympic" with the American student team, Vladimir Petrovich, released Volnov in the starting lineup. Gennady Georgievich scored several goals at once and, looking at the seventh minute on the scoreboard, as a professional, felt that he had already done his job. He will go to his fourth Olympics.

In Munich, 32-year-old Volnov was again one of the leaders of the national team. Of the nine matches of the Olympic tournament, the USSR team played, in eight he went out in the starting five. The famous player, he left a big basketball only after put the gold point in his sports biographyBy becoming the champion of the Olympic Games.

"The veterans of the national team were truly unique people. Gennady Volnov is a whole epoch in domestic basketball. He was perhaps the first universal player who could play in different positions that had good maintenance, excellent distant cast, confident Slam, "- He celebrated his colleague in the Munich team Sergey Belov.

After triumph in Munich G.G. Volnov returned to work at the Academy. He became the head of the department, received the academic title of associate professor, was then a professor at the department. In 1992, he retired in the rank of colonel.

For big Athlete It is very important when the family understands him and lives his sports dream, his affairs. In this regard, Gennady Georgievich Volnov was a happy man. He met his spouse Svetlana Alekseevna Obudin, Master of Sports of the USSR for basketball, in 1959 at the II Summer Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR. Then the Moscow national team, in which Svetlana Alekseevna participated, ranked first. Love for basketball connected the hearts of young athletes who lived in a happy marriage of 48 years. In 1983, he received a plot in Konakovo, with his own hands built house there. He was an avid gift.

On the eve of 2007 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin for a great contribution to the development of domestic sports outstanding basketball player, honored master of sports of the USSR, the Olympic champion Gennady Volnov was awarded the Order of Honor. July 15, 2008 in the Tver region, in the town of Konakovo, which, 130 kilometers from Moscow, the heart of the Great Basketball Play was suddenly stopped. At the request of the Council of Veterans of the PBC CSKA in commemoration of outstanding achievements in the composition of the USSR national team and the Army Club and in honor of the 72nd anniversary of the birth of G.G. Volnova Tribune "in" UK CSKA. AND I. Gomelsky was named after Gennady Volnov. On November 26, 2011, the symbolic nominal Mike with his number "13" rose under the arms.

After leaving the life of a great basketball player, his friends, partners, comrades shared memories of him with the press service of the Moscow Basketball Club CSKA.

Vladimir Andreev, Honored Sports Master of Sports of the USSR, World Champion, Three-time champion of Europe, Two-time winner of the Champions Cup, Five-time Champion of the USSR:

"For me, Genka was not only a friend, but also the idol, a man to whom I always sought to imitate. He was a great athlete and a basketball player. You know, the words "Great" and "Volnov" for me were always consonant. Talking about him, always remember such an episode. In June 1967, we conducted a series of matches in Brazil. It happened after our victory at the World Cup, where the Brazilians became third. And they sought at any cost to prove to fans the randomness of this fact. We got great. What was happening in the halls was difficult to describe. Coins were flying in us, banks, boiled corn, the buses were beaten in buses, and therefore we were exported by olive paths. We were warned not to succumb to the provocations of Brazilian basketball players. And here in one of the matches famous playerThe leader of the Brazilian national team Rosablaanka literally beats Volnov. Beats once, the other ... And Genka stands at the Rack "Smirno." The judge pretends the view that he sees nothing. I was shocked, and was not afraid with all my grave to go between them to discharge the situation. Then Volnov conquered me resistance, composure, handling. He was a stunning team player. Yes, in that series we did not lose once ... we often performed for the veteran teams, played with each other. We were going to have great, and it often reached the dispute - it seems "was foul - there was no foul." And when Ghisha expressed his mind, everyone was silent and agreed with him. Because he is indisputable authority. "

Anatoly Astakhov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of Russia, four round winner of the European Champions Cup, seven-time champion of the USSR:

"With Geno and Armenk Alachachan, we came together in CSKA in 1959. And in the very first year, hegemony of the Riga SKA was interrupted, which, under the leadership of Alexander Gomelsky, was constantly kept CSKA second. And then for ten years played together in the club and sometimes in the national team, where the gene was constantly falling, and I am episodically. Volnov was a player who anticipated time. At the Olympics in Rome, he saw the game of Oscar Robertson and he borrowed a lot by becoming the same pioneer in our basketball, like Cerema Cherich in Yugoslavia, and Sasha Belov later in the USSR. Unfortunately, due to complex relationships with the leadership, he was too early left of the basketball. But much might give young. In my opinion, in our country inattentively reacted to many players of our generation, which possessed tremendous experience and knowledge. "

Sergey Belov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Olympic champion, Two-time world champion, fourfold champion in Europe, champion World Universiad, Two-time winner of the European Champions Cup, the Thirteenth Color Champion of the USSR:

"Gennady, we are not uncommon to forget ... underestimated. His contribution to the development of basketball was very large. For me, the 1960s are associated exclusively with liberty. He was one of the first two-meter players who began to score from above, the first one who attacked him with his distance. He was a comprehensive player, many years of captain CSKA and the USSR national team, and this indicates a lot. With freest, we always easily communicated - he never groved, was a weathered intelligent. By the way, a little-known fact: it was he who was the first to persuade me to go to CSKA. "

Ivan Eneshko, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Olympic Champion, World Champion, Two-time European Champion, European Champion Cup owner, seven-time champion of the USSR:

"The most important human qualities - independence, honesty, decency - were exacerbated, and because they were in some extent harmed. I am very sorry that he did not take place as a coach. But at that time, after the end of the sports career, many of CSKA managed to work at the Academy, that is, remained officers. They provided a good salary and retirement. Volnov at the Academy was the Zavorkapler, Professor, Colonel. It happened that he did not have a relation to Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky. Volnov was independent, and Gomelsky was all aimed at victory, by any means. They did not find a common language, and the Volnov chose to complete his career, because in another team, not in CSKA, did not want to play. I think he finished early. However, after a year and a half, Vladimir Kondrashin, who began the preparation of the USSR national team to Olympiad-72, took it. I do not think Kondrashin took him as a key player. Rather, like a basketball player who can help its experience in complex moments. He released him in infrequently, but still released. "

Alzhan Zhemahamedov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Olympic champion, three-time champion of Europe, Tenth-time Champion of the USSR:

"I remember the first time when I saw Volnov. I, a young player, came to Moscow from Tashkent to the Olympics, which took place in open areas in Luzhniki. We stood at the side line, we watched one of the matches, and here several CSKA players came up - it seems except Volnov, there were still Trevin, Korneev ... They won the European Championship in Moscow for two weeks before We ... I have only seen in the photos before that Volnov. We were shocked: they turned out to be surprisingly open, friendly. We looked at the basketball, discussed ... Even in two years, when I was called to the USSR national team, and we went to the European Championship in Helsinki, I looked at Volnov as God. After all, the libele was and remains the best basketball player in the world. Throughout the career, he was a real leader. I watched the whole tournament and thought: how to take all it top Qualities, learn what he knew ... And this feeling, the desire, I carried through all my life. "

Victor Zubkov, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Three-time European Champion, two-time winner of the European Champions Cup, eight-time champion of the USSR:

"Such people are born once every 100 years. He was a man with a capital letter. For no matter what it was taken - it was necessarily brought to the end. When graduated sports career, became a teacher at the Academy of Chemical Protection, he put everything there - the technique, science, basketball. I built a cottage - and I expected everything myself, designed. Helpfully sought to everyone ... He was a great player, but for me, first of all, remains a wonderful person. To think only: I lived next to him more than with my wife, and with my wife, together for 45 years ... Always experienced a huge respect for him. He was my idol. I never even dreamed that I would play with the liberty. When we met (I played for the team from Minsk, he - for CSKA), for me it was something unimaginable. Then we became very close friends. Respect for all his teammates for him was infinite. For us, he was a commissar. "

Gennady Georgievich Volnov - Honored Master of Sport of the USSR (1964), Olympic champion (1972), twice silver (1960, 1964) and Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games (1968), World Champion (1967), Hex Championship winner Europe (1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969), three-time winner of the European Champions Cup (1963, 1965 1969,), tenfold Champion of the USSR (1959-1969), Silver (1958) and twice bronze (1967, 1968) USSR Championships, Winner of the II and III Summer Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR (1959, 1963).

The title holder "The Most Valuable Player" at the European Championships (1965, 1969) and the World Championships (1967). He played for Moscow basketball teams Spartak (1957-1958), CSKA (1958-1970), "Petrel" (1971), "Dynamo" (1972). He graduated from the Moscow branch of the Smolensk Institute of Physical Culture (1971). Lecturer, Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports of the Academy of Chemical Protection. S.K. Tymoshenko (1970-1992). Associate Professor, Professor, Colonel in retired. He was awarded the Order of Honor, two medals "for labor valor" and the Medal "For Labor Difference".

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On the eve of 2007, the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for a great contribution to the development of domestic sports, an outstanding basketball player, honored master of sports of the USSR Gennady Volnov, was awarded the Order of Honor. This award during the celebrations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Russian basketball two-meter sports veteran was presented by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S.Ivanov.

- Gennady Georgievich, how old did you doll up to such a height? Can I see well?
- At school, when he studied in the 9th grade. In those years, it was something unpretentious, it was impossible to appear on the street. And where did I have such an increase in me - I have no idea. Childhood took place in heavy military and after the war years. How people are starving and dying, saw with their own eyes. There was a village, and now the city of Konakovo, where the famous HPP, a reservoir on the Volga. There, I lived the whole war in my mother's sister. And in 1947, when it was necessary to go to school, my mother, Vera Vasilyevna, brought me back to Moscow.
My moral suffering began. The fact is that my father, an officer who graduated from the Military Academy, to the Terrible for Moscow, the months of 1941 was headed by the Division of the militia. At the cost of his life, they stopped the fascists, saved the capital. Father then disappeared. For us with my mother, it turned into trouble. At school, I did not take me in Pioneers or Komsomol. Mom for the deceased father did not pay a penny. And only in the 80s acknowledged that he was not captured, did not disappear, but died.
Hence, probably, our constant poverty, malnutrition. As a child, I died twice, sick with inflammation of the lungs six times. In the 3rd grade I had a bitter inflammation. Some professor Medic advised Mom to take me to the village, in Moscow no medicine will save. And in Konakovo, Aunt spoiled me with warm pair milk. During the year, it was planted, and then, in Moscow, hit the operating table.
- This time with what?
- Appendicitis with peritonitis. Mom found me without memory in the courtyard, in his hands, he conveyed from the Nestovsky Lane, to the Children's Filatovskaya Hospital. There, two and a half hours did the operation ... Doctors saved me more than once. So about the good life contributing to the achievement of two-meter growth, it is not necessary to speak. Rasked by the usual boy, and by the 9th class for the year he was drown at once at 20 centimeters, then also.
- And we weighed how much?
- 60 kilograms, dystrophic.
- Then what basketball could we talk about?
- In those years, coaches walked in Moscow schools and chose the guys in their clubs. When heighting 2 meters was invited to join the basketball section, regardless of whether you can play or not. Every year the Games of schoolchildren were carried out. And in 1957, the famous, now living coach Yuri Vartanovich Dohalov came to our school and invited me to himself. Started training. Sports form, games, friends. From the large group selected the team that was engaged in an outstanding children's coach Vitaly Yaroshevsky.
I often thought about why then succeeded in basketball. Probably it was given to me by nature. I had a perfect coordination of movements, a wonderful jumping, did what it was not under the power of the national teams of the USSR national team. According to the prophecy of the coach in this team I had to get to the next year.
And since 1957, I began to engage in basketball professionally, training 5-6 hours a day. This is a huge load. As part of the Moscow national team, we went to the All-Union Games of Schoolchildren in Riga and took 1st place there. After such success, V. Yaroshevsky made the head coach of basketball players of the Moscow Spartak, who played in the highest division. He introduced me, a 17-year-old boy, in the "team of engineers", as SPARTACTERS was called - all players were with higher education, intellectually developed people, after leaving the lot of sports far advanced on a service field.
"But you had a service in the army." From here and fell a choice on CSKA?
- And then everything was not easy. According to the advice of CSKA coaches, wrote a statement: "I ask my army ahead of time." A two-month quarantine passed in the military unit in Naro-Fominsk. There, even a military uniform for a two-meter volunteer could not pick up, but forced the need to clean. Almost "reached the handle", and only after the call of the coach, I was transferred to CSKA, where I stayed for 13 years and "perceived" to the title of senior lieutenant.
- Start was successful?
- That year, many CSKA players in the national team of the USSR left for the World Cup. And the country's championship continued, and on us, young, was all responsibility. We tried and without famous teammates won gold medals. After that, of course, the coaches of the USSR national team paid attention to us. In 1959, I was included in its composition. For the first time we went to the matches in the United States. Look at American amateur basketball. Much has a lot to have been adopted, including the technique of training. The Moscow army team succeeded in this, the Era of CSKA in domestic basketball began with us.
- But you entered the story of basketball and the fact that the ball was "laid" in the ring from above.
- Moreover, in the process of the game, not in training. The height of the rings is 3 meters of 5 centimeters, so it was necessary to jump on the meter, which surrounded by rivals to do not exactly. It was in 1958, and today it is an ordinary phenomenon.
- As part of the USSR national team, you won the medals on four Olympiads, what?
- In 1960 in Rome - Silver, lost only to Americans. In 1964, Tokyo, there was already a chance to beat them, but did not work out, they brought silver again. In Mexico City, in 1968 turned out to be third - after Americans and Yugoslavs, bronze awards.
"But I know, in 1970 in Munich, the USSR national team was awarded gold medals. Have you entered her composition?
"Although in 1970, officially left CSKA, he moved to work at the Academy of Chemical Protection of the USSR. He became an employee of the Department of Physical Training. And from there the USSR national team coach V. Kokdareshin invited me again to the team to participate in Olympic Games. I was 33 years old. Young players have already appealed to me by the name of patronymic. But nothing, everything turned out, in the final we were all the time, won the Americans, won the golden Olympic medals. This ended for me a big sport.
- And add - professional, although it was not considered such in Soviet times. Now they write a lot about his destructive effects on the health of the athlete.
- According to your own experience, I know that big sport is not physical education. Huge work, annually bringing injuries. And every two years I had such injuries in which normal person Half a year would have been on the bulletin. And after two weeks I went out again.
- How could it be?
- Then the system existed - if a person is needed, he was "put on his feet." Did this, of course, doctors. In the USSR national team worked wonderful sports doctor Roman Sergeevich teeth. At his wards that no day, then the menicism popped up, turned ankle jointsThe legs of the basketball players fled to elephant sizes, etc. Not that run - walk and even lying hurt. But our doctors were such professionals that in a week put in line.
- But this is the same all "Awelle", and the health of your future did not think about your future?
- Yes, now I have absolutely all the joints hurt, all whines. If I do not work out at physical education, I do not run, pain does not stop. So nothing to health good classes Large, professional sports did not bring.
- What is today's medical care of professional sports?
- It has improved much. All athletes are insured, they are more careful to them, because compensation will have to pay. They are striving to cure, at that time we just "heal" sores.
- Gennady Georgievich, you played in the USSR national team for 15 years. And what expected a professional after the completion of the career?
- Nothing good. When they performed, there was such a load that did not have time to think about any studies, the acquisition of the specialty did not have time. I have already been 28 years old when I came homed and realized that you need to get a higher education. He graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture. Why? I remembered an example with my colleague in the USSR national team Rizhanitin Valdis Mubenike. He studied at a lawyer. And when we met in 1980 at the Olympics in Moscow, I asked how a lawyer worked. And he replied: "I work in the republican sport committee. Julfak finished at 36 years old, to this age, the professionals have already achieved such heights that on their background I will remain novice ... "
Therefore, I went to my sphere familiar to me - at the Department of Physical Culture of the Military Academy. I worked there for 23 years and got to the title of Colonel, became a professor, head of the department.
- Classes physical culture And health promotion is inseparable things. How do you assess today's situation in the country?
- The former, rather highly efficient system of physical training collapsed along with the USSR. Now we are trying to do something in this area, but no more. We integrate into the world, and there are our laws. Now in our professional teams Masters are the dominance of foreigners. Our young athletes without proper training are very difficult. Where professional sportThere are not thinking about the physical training of citizens of the country. Everyone rules commerce, monetary interest. It means that you need to change the entire current system or return to the same, Soviet, I do not see another way.
- Basketball introduced you to the future wife?
- Yes, in 1959 Svetlana Alekseevna, like me, played for the Moscow national team. I got acquainted, got married, daughter was born, they called it too Svetlana. She graduated from the Institute of Communications. I have two granddaughters - Elsa and Tamara. With the name of the first, a whole story is connected. The fact is that the husband of the daughter was the Georgian Surgeon Tamaz Tamazashvili, at that time he was preparing for the protection of the doctoral dissertation in the Mnni ambulance. N.V. Sliphosovsky. When the first daughter was born, the dispute arose - how to call it? Committed at the "neutral" name. They have been living in New York for 10 years, they work, Elsa ends the university, and Tamara will do there. We have a very warm relationship.
- What is your hobby?
- In his 45 years in Konakovo, he received a plot, with his own hands built house there. Now I am an avid dacket. Every year we are leaving there with my wife. I love to grow all kinds of animals. So the hobby appeared.
- And our traditional question: how do you feel about doctors?
- I am grateful for the fact that in childhood it was saved to me life, and when I played, always came to the rescue.
Today's doctors, I would wish more sensitively to the patients coming to them. So that they are interested, and did he do in his youth sport? After all, these are non-standard patients, not at all like ordinary citizens.
Flow to your experience. When I started working at the Academy and was a survey, doctors, making an ECG, said: "You have an extended heart, you are threatened with a heart attack. Total 32 strikes! " And for me it was the norm. And just learning that I was in the past athlete, calmed down.
Conversation led Leonid Twisters,
Observer "mg".

Goodbye, Uncle Stepa ... The great basketball player Gennady Volnov passed away

Yesterday, Gennady Volnov died in the 69th year - one of the greatest players in the history of basketball, the Olympiad-72 triumpor, two-time world champion and six-time European champion.

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Yesterday, Gennady Volnov died in the 69th year - one of the greatest players in the history of basketball, the Olympiad-72 triumpor, two-time world champion and six-time European champion.

... I first saw him in the tournament on street basketball four years ago. Golden Olympic Trio - Gennady Volnov, Alexander Bolev, Alzhan Zharmahamedov - "brought" the guys from the Russia's youth national team another "twenty". As if did not exist between them almost a forty-year difference. And Volnov played like God. Scored in a ring from any distance. I am not afraid to lie, Gennady Georgievich never missed.

- How do you manage it? - I asked if Volnova .

- This is a long conversation, a young man. Want, come home to me. I'll tell you everything.

It was really a long, strikingly frank conversation ...

His father, an officer of the Red Army, died in the early days of the Great Patriotic War. Lost - a suspicious fact by the standards of those years. In a few years, a son will be ahead: he was taken to the pioneers for a year later of the peers, damp tanging a red tie in the teacher's room, and did not offer to the Komsomol to join.

No matter what basketball genes of Volnov for a long time did not even mind.

- Only one thought was performed in the head - as if squeezed to eat, - sadly told me free on that evening. - Mom the second time married did not come out and, working at a shoe plant, received pennies. However, then almost everyone lived.

In the seventh grade, the gene was drove for two meters. "Uncle Stepa is like peers called me," he recalled. - Teased with a calander, they asked to get a sparrobe. "

He "took out" offenders in a few years - on basketball courtwhere it got completely by chance. Friends led to the match and told that players give out a free form and coupons for food.

It was a decisive argument.

And in the 60s in the basketball began the Epoch of Volnov! Such a versatile and movable two-meter player in Europe and, and, perhaps, in the rest of the world, with the exception, naturally, there was no US, to Volnov. He made a revolution in the amateur basketball, where they were accustomed to hastily giants, which only did that they were scored from under the shield. It was the first to become the first in our country, who perfectly mastered the throw in the jump and began to score from above in the game. As Basketball Geneants - Americans.

In the ten-year era of Volnov - from 1959 to 1969 - the USSR national team did not know defeats in the old world, taking six of the six European championships and the world championship. Only World Cup 63 and three Olympics were lost, where gold medals invariably got US basketball players.

But Volnov still take revenge from Americans. In the forgotten veteran believed great coach Vladimir Kondrashin, Inviting in 1972 to the Olympics in Munich. There was no chief hero of Volnov there, but without him we would never be champions, beat in the famous three-second ending of invincible states.

He did not love officials. He was not afraid of anyone, knocked in the door of the biggest bosses and chopped the truth-uterus, standing on his comrades. And myself spent the whole life in poverty ...

... Gennady Georgievich invited me to his birthday, celebrate the 65th anniversary. At the table, the great people were sitting - Batholov, Zharmahamedov, Teeth Zhigiyi ...

"I have always been betrayed my homeland," he began his first toast. - Yes, I did not earn millions, but remained pure item. I remember Madrid "Real" offered me to escape. Gave 150 thousand dollars for the season. Crazy money for those times ...

But Volnov never regretted his choice.

- Guys, carry the guitar. Let's sing, "said Gennady Georgievich in the midst of the fabulous evening.

I played on the six-string hour three, and they sang. Great basketball players were tightened "Ghostly everything in this world is a raging." The good eyes of Volnov glowed with happiness.

Yesterday at 8.30 in the morning it was not. Wolnov's heart suddenly stopped in the Tver region, in the town of Konakovo, 130 kilometers from Moscow.

Farewell, Uncle Stepa, let the earth will be a down.

PRIVATE BUSSINESS

Gennady Volnov (28.11.1939–15.08.2008)
Amplua: Center, powerful forward.
Achievements:six-time European Champion in the USSR national team (1959-1969), a member of four Olympiads (silver winner (1960, 1964), a bronze medalist (1968). Olympic champion (1972). Tentkey Champion of the USSR in CSKA (1959-1969), three-time European Champions Cup holder (1961, 1963, 1969).
For outstanding progress in the development of basketball awarded by state awards: the Order of the "Hall Sign", two medals "For Labor Valor" and the Medal "For Labor Difference".

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