Aleksandr Ivanovich Moiseyev (russian: Александр Иванович Моисеев; May 28, 1927 – September 9, 2003) was a Russian

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player who competed for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was Jewish, and trained at Armed Forces sports society in

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. and played for

CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet era, it was a central piece of the big So ...

. He was a member of the Soviet team which won the silver medal. He played all eight matches.

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Aleksandr Moiseyev's profile at databaseOlympicsAleksandr Moiseyev's profile at Sport-Strana.ru
1927 births 2003 deaths Armed Forces sports society athletes Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics FIBA EuroBasket-winning players Jewish men's basketball players Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players of the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in basketball Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union PBC CSKA Moscow players Russian Jews Russian men's basketball players Soviet Jews Soviet men's basketball players {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub