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Alexander Gomelsky

1928 - 2005

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Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Гомельский; 18 January 1928 – 16 August 2005) was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. Alexander Gomelsky was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Gomelsky has received more than 102,483 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gomelsky is the 61st most popular basketball player (down from 43rd in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Russia (down from 834th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Basketball Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 61 out of 1,268. Before him are Robert Parish, Pete Maravich, Chuck Daly, Lenny Wilkens, Oscar Schmidt, and David Robinson. After him are Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Tony Parker, Isaiah Thomas, Steve Nash, Elvin Hayes, and Nate Thurmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 268. Before him are Luciano De Crescenzo, Dick Miller, Pal Benko, Fidel Ramos, Carl Dahlhaus, and William Klein. After him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Umberto Maglioli, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Leon Fleisher, and Estelle Harris. Among people deceased in 2005, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 146. Before him are Stanley Williams, Zainab al Ghazali, John Spencer, Eduardo Paolozzi, Corrado Bafile, and Donald Watson. After him are George Gerbner, André Waterkeyn, Sunil Dutt, Serge Lang, Frank Gorshin, and Virginia Mayo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 1,229 out of 3,262. Before him are Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), Boris Barnet (1902), Andrey Kurkov (1961), Natalia Gutman (1942), Vladimir Basov (1923), and Mikhail Isakovsky (1900). After him are Victor Pelevin (1962), Yuri Bezmenov (1939), Boris Yegorov (1937), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), and Vladimir Aksyonov (1935).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 2. Before him are Sergei Belov (1944). After him are Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Alexander Belov (1951), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Alexey Shved (1988), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), Timofey Mozgov (1986), Lazaros Papadopoulos (1980), and Yekaterina Lisina (1987).

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