Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky 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
Grave of Gomelsky at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow
PBC CSKA Moscow is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League, and was a member of the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended all Russian teams because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sergei Belov, voted the best FIBA Player ever, in 1991.
Miloš Teodosić, club star in mid-2010s
Nando de Colo, EuroLeague MVP and Final Four MVP in 2016
Interior of the 5,500 seat Universal Sports Hall CSKA.