Valeri Alexeyevich Kalachikhin (russian: Валерий Алексеевич Калачихин, 20 May 1939 – 27 November 2014) was a
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
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
Soviet Union
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in the
1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in the
Sovkhoz
A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, abbreviated from ''советское хозяйство'', "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)"; ) was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.
It is usually contrasted wit ...
Vtoraya Pyatiletka near
Leningradskaya,
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of ...
. In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team, which won the
gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.
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Valeri Kalachikhin's obituary
1939 births
2014 deaths
Soviet men's volleyball players
Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Russian men's volleyball players
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Krasnodar Krai
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