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The Soviet Union women's national basketball team was the
women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...
side that represented the
Soviet Union 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 national ...
in international competitions. After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
in 1991, the successor countries all set up their own national teams.


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Soviet Union women's national under-19 basketball team The Soviet Union women's national under-18 and under-19 basketball team was the women's basketball side that represented the Soviet Union in international under-18 and under-19 competitions, until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In ...
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Soviet Union women's national under-17 basketball team The Soviet Union women's national under-16 basketball team was a national basketball team of the Soviet Union. It represented the country in international under-16 (under age 16) women's basketball competitions, until the dissolution of the Soviet ...
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Russia women's national basketball team The Russia women's national basketball team is administered by the Russian Basketball Federation. The team has participated in four FIBA World Championship for Women and their best finish has been a silver medal in 1998, 2002 and 2006. In Euro ...


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{{National sports teams of the Soviet Union
National team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ...
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