Valeri Alexeyevich Kalachikhin (russian: Валерий Алексеевич Калачихин, 20 May 1939 – 27 November 2014) was a

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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. 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 {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub