Yury Naumovich Vengerovsky (, ; 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

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...

. He was Jewish, born in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

, and died in Belgorod, Russia. In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches. He played in Burevetsnik Kharkiv and CSKA Moscow. He retired from playing in 1972, and had a managerial career in "Burevetsnik", CSKA (

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

), Spartak Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Avtomobilist Samara, and

VC Belogorie VC Belogorie Belgorod () is a Russian professional volleyball club based in Belgorod, which is participating in the Russian Volleyball Super League. VC Belogorie won the Russian Championship and the Russian Cup eight times each. The club is also ...

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Ukrainian men's volleyball players Soviet men's volleyball players Russian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Volleyball players from Kharkiv Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1938 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Russian sportsmen 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-volleyball-bio-stub

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