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Alexander Gomelsky

1928 - 2005

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Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Гомельский; 18 January 1928 – 16 August 2005) was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. Alexander Gomelsky was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee in 1998. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gomelsky is the 53rd most popular basketball player, the 1,064th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 53 out of 1,757. Before him are Karl Malone, Elgin Baylor, Ben Wallace, Bob Pettit, George Mikan, and Dragan Kićanović. After him are Vladimir Tkachenko, Anthony Davis, Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Toni Kukoč.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 244. Before him are Alejandro de Tomaso, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Horace Silver, Orson Bean, Warren Oates, and Pal Benko. After him are Natalie Zemon Davis, Saw Maung, Giacomo Biffi, Bengt Gustavsson, Bob Cousy, and Stuart Whitman. Among people deceased in 2005, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 127. Before him are George Mikan, Jef Raskin, Leo Sternbach, Ronald Golias, Suzanne Flon, and Zurab Zhvania. After him are Zoran Mušič, Lazar Berman, Vizma Belševica, Gary Bertini, Pál Losonczi, and Elisabeth Domitien.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 1,064 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Pavel Postyshev (1887), Gennady Padalka (1958), Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (1897), and Anna Demidova (1878). After him are Pavel Dybenko (1889), Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Max Vasmer (1886), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926), and Dmitry Belyayev (1917).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 2. Before him are Sergei Belov (1944). After him are Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Alexander Belov (1951), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), Alexey Shved (1988), Timofey Mozgov (1986), and Yekaterina Lisina (1987).

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