Evgeny Nikolaevich Alekseev (russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Алексе́ев ; 22 March 1919 – February 28, 2005) was a Soviet and Russian professional

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player and

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Club playing career

Alekseev played

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basketball with the Soviet clubs

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three oc ...

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 ...

, where he was the team's captain, and

VVS Moscow VVS Moscow (russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: ''Moscow Military Air Force'') was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football, ice hock ...

. He won three USSR League championships, in the years 1939, 1945, and 1952.

National team playing career

Alekseev was the captain of the senior

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. He played with the USSR at the

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, where he won a gold medal, and averaged 10.2 points per game.Soviet Union 7 - Evgueny Alekseev.
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Coaching career

After his basketball playing career ended, Alekseev began working as a

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, in 1953. As the

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, he won 6 USSR League championships, and two FIBA European Champions Cups (now called EuroLeague) titles, in

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and

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, while also leading CSKA to the

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in 1965. He was also the head coach of

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

. As the head coach of Spartak Moscow Women, he won the USSR Women's League championship in 1978, and the Ronchetti Women's Cup three times (1977, 1981, and 1982). He also worked as an assistant coach of the senior

. He was an assistant coach on the Soviet Union team that won a silver medal at the

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. He was subsequently named a Merited Coach of the USSR. He was also an assistant coach with the Soviet Union, when they won the gold medal at the

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Awards and honors

* Merited Coach of the USSR *

Order of Friendship of Peoples The Order of Friendship of Peoples (russian: oрден Дружбы народов, translit=orden Druzhby narodov) was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military unit ...

Order of the Badge of Honour The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...

Order of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisa ...

* Order of the Red Star

Personal life

Alekseev's wife,

Lidiya Alekseyeva Lidiya Vladimirovna Alekseyeva (russian: Лидия Владимировна Алексеева, 4 July 1924 – 26 June 2014) was a Russian basketball player and basketball coach, coach. Alekseyeva was born in Moscow. Alekseyeva was inducted ...

, was a well-known basketball player, and also the long-time head basketball

of the senior USSR women's national basketball team.

References

External links

FIBA Player Profile

Evgeny Alekseev
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