Stepan Surenovich Spandaryan ( hy, Ստեփան Սուրենի Սպանդարյան, russian: Степан Суренович Спандарян; April 2, 1906,

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- 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet-Armenian basketball player, coach, one of the founders of the Soviet basketball.

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(1943). Honored coach of the USSR (1957). Since 1947 Stepan Spandaryan on coaching. In 1947 he was the assistant coach of the men's team of the USSR, won on his debut continental championship title in Europe. In 1951-1952 and 1956-1962 he headed the coaching staff of the men's team of the USSR. During these years, the USSR national team won four times at the European Championships (1951, 1957, 1959, 1961) and three times became silver medalist of the Olympic Games (1952, 1956, 1960). In 1959, the USSR national team was close to winning the world title, but for political reasons refused to go to the match against a team from

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and was disqualified. In the 1965-1966 year, Stepan Spandaryan coached the men's team in

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. Later he worked in the department of the Sports Committee of the USSR basketball. Over the years, he was a member and Chairman of the Presidium of the Basketball Federation of the USSR, the chairman of the All-Union Council of coaching. The son of well-known literary critic, essayist and leader of the Russian revolutionary movement

Suren Spandaryan Suren Spandari Spandaryan ( hy, Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 24 September 1916 in Krasnoyarsk) was an Armenian revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literatary critic, publicist and one of the founders of th ...

.The official site of the Federation Rugby of Armenia
Wife - Soviet athlete and basketball player, champion and record holder USSR Ella Mitsis (1912-2002).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spandaryan, Stepan 1906 births 1987 deaths Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union Soviet men's basketball players BC Dynamo Moscow players Soviet basketball coaches Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

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