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Yury Naumovich Vengerovsky ( uk, Юрій Наумович Венгеровський, russian: Юрий Наумович Венгеровский; 26 October 1938 – 4 December 1998) was a Ukrainian
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 Summ ...
player who competed for the
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in the
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. He was Jewish, born in
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, Russia. In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.


See also

* List of select Jewish volleyball players


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Ukrainian men's volleyball players Soviet men's volleyball players Russian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Sportspeople from Kharkiv Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1938 births 1998 deaths {{Ukraine-volleyball-bio-stub