Ivan Vasilyevich Dvorny (; 5 January 1952, Yasnaya Polyana, Moskalensky District, Omsk Oblast – 21 September 2015, Omsk) was a Russian

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player who won

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with the

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basketball team at the

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. He trained at VSS Trud in Sverdlovsk, as well as in Omsk and in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Dvorny died on 21 September 2015 in Omsk of lung cancer at the age of 63.

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