Gennadi Volnov

Gennadi Georgievich Volnov (alternate spelling: Gennady, Russian: Геннадий Георгиевич Вольнов, November 28, 1939 – July 15, 2008) was a Russian basketball player who played for the senior Soviet Union national team from the late 1950s, to the early 1970s.He spent most of his club career playing with CSKA Moscow (1958–1970).While playing with CSKA and the Russian and Moscow unified teams, he won ten Soviet League championships (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, and 1970) and three EuroLeague championships (1961, 1963, and 1969).Volnov won the gold medal while playing with the senior Soviet national team at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games.He also won a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games.
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