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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 110,692 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander Gomelsky is the 53rd most popular basketball player (up from 61st in 2019), the 1,134th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,225th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 53 out of 1,757. Before him are Red Auerbach, Cēzars Ozers, Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and David Robinson. After him are Nikos Galis, Aleksandar Đorđević, Allen Iverson, Robert Parish, Terry Dischinger, and Muggsy Bogues.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 251. Before him are Abdellatif Filali, Steingrímur Hermannsson, Nicolas Roeg, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Alan Sillitoe, and Nils Christie. After him are Annie Cordy, Anthony Franciosa, Sohrab Sepehri, Edgar Schein, Pal Benko, and Azlan Shah of Perak. Among people deceased in 2005, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 134. Before him are Raoul Bott, Jimmy Smith, Suzanne Flon, Alain Bombard, Zainab al Ghazali, and Jacques Villeret. After him are Milorad Pavić, Ronald Golias, Eddie Guerrero, Maurice Hilleman, Pierre Bachelet, and Fabrizio Meoni.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Gomelsky ranks 1,134 out of 3,761. Before him are Valery Ryumin (1939), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Serhiy Tkach (1952), Orest Kiprensky (1782), Natalia Molchanova (1962), and Oleg Basilashvili (1934). After him are Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Olena Teliha (1906), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), and Boris Gryzlov (1950).

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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), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Alexey Shved (1988), Timofey Mozgov (1986), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), and Maria Stepanova (1979).

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