VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

Vyacheslav Zaytsev

1952 - 2023

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Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Zaytsev (Russian: Вячеслав Алексеевич Зайцев, 12 November 1952 – 12 June 2023) was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976, 1980, and the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was a setter. In 1976, Zaytsev was part of the Soviet team that won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament in Montreal. Zaytsev became the team captain in 1977 and played a major role in helping the Soviet Union become a dominant team in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Zaytsev is the 3rd most popular volleyball player (down from 2nd in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,234th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Volleyball Player.

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Among volleyball players, Vyacheslav Zaytsev ranks 3 out of 199. Before him are Karch Kiraly, and Josef Musil. After him are Lang Ping, Bernardo Rezende, Yuriy Poyarkov, Giba, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Masae Kasai, Yuri Chesnokov, Andrea Anastasi, and Nikola Grbić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Vyacheslav Zaytsev ranks 318. Before him are Marcella Bella, Monika Zehrt, John D. Barrow, Johnny Thunders, Irina Allegrova, and Mansour Ojjeh. After him are Alan Cooper, Amina Wadud, Fernando Morena, Vitaly Churkin, Sefer Halilović, and Ali Gomaa. Among people deceased in 2023, Vyacheslav Zaytsev ranks 295. Before him are Burhan Sargun, Gleb Panfilov, John Warnock, Evelyn Fox Keller, Josef Vojta, and Odilon Polleunis. After him are Randy Meisner, Jorge Edwards, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Danilo Astori, B. V. Doshi, and Jacques Rozier.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Zaytsev ranks 1,501 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Gordov (1896), Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879), Boris Parygin (1930), Jacob Bruce (1669), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), and Vasily Golitsyn (1643). After him are Karen Khachaturian (1920), Mischa Auer (1905), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Esfir Shub (1894), Gamzat-bek (1789), and Mikhail Khorobrit (1229).

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among volleyball players born in Russia, Vyacheslav Zaytsev ranks 1. After him are Yuri Chesnokov (1933), Yekaterina Gamova (1980), Aleksey Kazakov (1976), Maksim Mikhaylov (1988), Yelena Godina (1977), Vadim Khamuttskikh (1969), Sergey Grankin (1985), Aleksey Kuleshov (1979), Aleksandr Volkov (1985), Yury Berezhko (1984), and Aleksey Verbov (1982).

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