Irina Anatolyevna Ilchenko (; born 3 August 1968, in

Ivanovo Ivanovo (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Russia and the administrative center and largest city of Ivanovo Oblast, located northeast of Moscow and approximately from Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir and Kostroma. ...

), known as Irina Ilchenko or Irina Smirnova, is a retired Russian

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. Born in

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

, she competed for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics, the

Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics The Unified Team at the Olympics, Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics () in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of twelve of the fifteen former Republics of the Soviet Union, Soviet republics that chose to compete together; the stat ...

, and

Russia at the 1996 Summer Olympics The Russian Federation competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA. It was the first time since 1912 that the nation participated separately from the other former countries of the Soviet Union. Russia had been a member of the Unified Team ...

. She is the mother of the Russian player Ksenia Ilchenko Parubets.

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1968 births Living people Volleyball players from Yekaterinburg Soviet women's volleyball players Russian women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Olympic volleyball players for the Unified Team Olympic volleyball players for Russia Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in volleyball Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) players Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Russian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate volleyball players in Italy Russian expatriate volleyball players in Turkey 20th-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub