Boris Sokolovsky

Boris Sokolovsky

Sokolovsky in 2012
Personal information
Born 9 December 1953 (1953-12-09) (age 62)
Penza, Russia
Sport
Sport Basketball
Club Player: Dynamo Kuibyshev (1971–73)
Azov Tolyatti (1973–75)
Pamir Dushanbe (1975–79)
Coach: SKA Kiev (1979–81)
DAAZ Ulyanovsk (1982–83)
Tajikistan SSR team (1983–87)
BC Donetsk (1987–90)
BC Avtodor Saratov (1991–92)
BC Aleskram Kiev (1992–93)
BC Donetsk (1993–94)
BC Kiev-Basket (1994–95)
BC Avtodor Saratov (1995–96)
CSK VVS Samara (1996–2002)
EVRAZ Yakterinburg (2002–03)
BC UNICS (2003–05)
Dynamo Moscow (2005–06)
Chevakata Vologda (2006–09)
WBC Dynamo Novosibirsk (2009–14)
BC Krasnye Krylia (2014–15)
Burevestnik Yaroslavl (2015–)

Boris Ilyich Sokolovsky (Russian: Борис Ильич Соколовский, born 9 December 1953) is a Russian basketball coach and former player. Since 1986 he worked as an assistant coach with the Soviet and then Russian men's and women's basketball teams, and in 2009 was named as the best women's basketball coach in Russia.[1] Between 2010 and 2012 he headed the Russia women's national basketball team.[2][3]

Sokolovsky played basketball for several clubs in 1971–1979. He started coaching in 1979, in Kiev, Ukraine, and in 1983 moved to Tajikistan, where he married Valentina, a national basketball player. They have a son Aleksei and daughters Irina and Olga. Aleksei works as a basketball coach while Irina and Olga are international basketball players.[2]

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