Alexander Pavlovich Ermolinskij (russian: Александр Павлович Ермолинский; born November 11, 1959) is an Ukraninan-Icelandic

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coach and a former basketball player. He was an assistant coach for

Nadezhda Orenburg PBK Nadezhda Orenburg (russian: ПБК «Надежда») is a Russian women's basketball club from Orenburg founded in 1994. Nadezhda has been 3rd in the Russian Premier League in 2010 and 2011, and reached the Russian Cup's final from 2011� ...

from 2010 to 2021. He played for both the

Soviet Union national basketball team The Soviet Union men's national basketball team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по баскетболу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po basketbolu) was the national basketball team that represented the Soviet Union in international competitions. After t ...

and Icelandic national basketball team.

Early life

Ermolinskij was born in

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in the

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Playing career

After playing for Honvéd for two seasons, where he won the

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in 1991, Ermolinskij joined Skallagrímur of the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild karla in 1992. Ermolinskij joined

Grindavík Grindavík () is a fishing town on the Southern Peninsula (Iceland), Southern Peninsula of Iceland not far from the tuya Þorbjörn (mountain), Þorbjörn. It is one of the few cities with a harbour on this coast. Most of the inhabitants work in ...

in 1999 and helped the club win the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 2000.

National team career

Early in his career, Ermolinskij played for the

. In 1997 he received an Icelandic citizenship and subsequently ee was selected for the Icelandic national team that won bronze in the

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. In total Ermolinskij played 6 games for Iceland.

Personal life

Ermolinskij's younger son,

Pavel Ermolinskij Pavel Ermolinskij (born 25 January 1987) is an Icelandic basketball coach and former player of Ukrainian descent, a member of the Icelandic national team. He has won the Icelandic championship with KR seven times, in 2011 and 2014–2019. He pla ...

, plays for KR, in the Úrvalsdeild karla, and is a member of the Icelandic national basketball team. His older son, Andrei, played two games in the Úrvalsdeild karla for Körfuknattleiksfélag ÍA during the 1998-1999 season.

References

External links

Alexander Ermolinskij
Úrvalsdeild stats at kki.is

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Alexander Ermolinskij Alexander Pavlovich Ermolinskij (russian: Александр Павлович Ермолинский; born November 11, 1959) is an Ukraninan-Icelandic basketball coach and a former basketball player. He was an assistant coach for Nadezhda Orenbu ...

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Ukrainian men's basketball players

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