Viacheslav Platonov
Personal information
Full nameVyacheslav Alekseyevich Platonov
NationalityRussian
Born(1939-02-21)21 February 1939
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died26 December 2005(2005-12-26) (aged 66)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Coaching information
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
1977-1985, 1990-1991
1992
1995-1997		 Soviet Union
 CIS
 Russia

Viacheslav Platonov (Russian: Вячеслав Платонов; 21 January 1939 – 26 December 2005) was a Russian volleyball player and coach. He led the Soviet men's national volleyball team to gold medals in the 1978 and 1982 FIVB World Championships, and the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1]

Club volleyball

Platonov played volleyball for the Russian club teams SKIF, SKA, and Spartak from 1954 to 1967.[1]

Coaching

Platonov coached the Soviet men's team from 1977 to 1985, and again from 1990 to 1991.[1] He coached the same team, referred to as the Unified Team, in 1992.[1] He then coached the Russian men's team from 1995 to 1997.[1]

Platonov coached several clubs, notably Automobilist Leningrad, leading them to USSR Championship titles in 1983 and 1989.[1]

For his extraordinary achievements as a coach, Platonov was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2002.[1]

Personal life

Platonov's father was killed during World War II in Kharkiv, Ukraine.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Vyacheslav Platonov". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "Excerpt: 'If Gold Is Our Destiny,' when USA men won the 1984 volleyball Olympics". Volleyball Magazine. 30 June 2022. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
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