Nina Smoleyeva (born 28 March 1948) is a 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 for the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. Smoloyeva was a major player who helped the

Soviet Union women's national volleyball team The Soviet Union women's national volleyball team was the national volleyball team that had represented the Soviet Union in the International competitions between 1952 until 1991. FIVB considers Russia as the inheritor of the records of Sovie ...

to become the most dominant team in the late 1960s to early 1970s, by winning the 1968 Olympics, the 1970 FIVB World Championship, the 1972 Olympics, and the 1973 FIVB World Cup in row. She also helped the Soviet Union to European Championship titles in 1967, 1971, 1975, and 1977. In 2006, Smoleyeva was inducted into the

International Volleyball Hall of Fame The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts ...

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International Volleyball Hall of Fame Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smoleyeva, Nina Living people 1948 births People from Volkhov Soviet women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Russian women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Sportspeople from Leningrad Oblast