Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin (russian: Вячеслав Владимирович Атавин, born February 4, 1967, in

Krasnodar Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in south ...

) is a former

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and

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n handball player. During the

period of his career Atavin trained at

Dynamo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundat ...

Astrakhan Astrakhan ( rus, Астрахань, p=ˈastrəxənʲ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in Southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of ...

. He became the

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR (russian: Единая Всесоюзная спортивная классификация) is a document which provided general Soviet physical education system requirements for both athletes an ...

in 1988 and competed for the USSR National Team between 1988 and 1991.Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia
/ref> In 1988 he won the gold medal with the

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team at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. He played all six matches and scored 23 goals. Since 1992 he competed for

. Atavin graduated from Astrakhan Institute of Fish Industry and Economics in 1990.

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1967 births Living people Soviet male handball players Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Russian male handball players Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics BM Granollers players Sportspeople from Krasnodar Expatriate handball players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in handball Goodwill Games gold medalists {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub