Georgy Grigorevich Mondzolevski (russian: Георгий Григорьевич Мондзолевский, born January 26, 1934) is a

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former

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

player who competed for the

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in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the

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He is Jewish, and was born in

Orsha Orsha ( be, О́рша, Во́рша, Orša, Vorša; russian: О́рша ; lt, Orša, pl, Orsza) is a city in Belarus in the Vitebsk Region, on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers. History Orsha was first mentioned in 1067 as Rsha ...

Dr. George Eisen of Nazareth College included Shary on his list of Jewish Olympic Medalists.Eisen, George
"Jewish Olympic Medalists"

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. Retrieved 2011-02-02. He won the Soviet championship with Burevestnik Odessa in 1956 and with

CSKA Moskva 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 Sov ...

(1958, 1960–1963, 1965, and 1966). Also with CSKA Moskva, he twice won the European Champions’ League title (1960 and 1962). He played in all nine matches during the Soviet team's gold medal performances at the 1964 Summer Olympics and

. He also won two World Championships with the Soviet team (1960 and 1962) and the European Championships title in 1967. After his volleyball career, he taught as a professor at the

Moscow State Mining University Moscow State Mining University (''Московский государственный горный университет'' in Russia) is a Russian institute of higher education that prepares mining engineers. History Its history can be traced b ...

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* 1934 births Living people People from Orsha Soviet men's volleyball players Belarusian men's volleyball players Ukrainian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Jewish volleyball players Soviet Jews Jewish Belarusian sportspeople Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Burevestnik (sports society) athletes K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni Sportspeople from Vitebsk Region {{Belarus-volleyball-bio-stub

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