Armenak Alachachian

Armenak Alachachian

Personal information
Born	(1930-12-25)25 December 1930 Alexandria, Egypt
Died	4 December 2017(2017-12-04) (aged 87) Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Soviet / Russian / Armenian
Listed height	5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)
Listed weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1948–1966
Position	Point guard
Coaching career	1966–1970
Career history
As player:
1948—1954	SKIF Yerevan
1955—1957	Burevestnik Almaty
1958—1966	CSKA Moscow
As coach:
1966—1968	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
1968—1970	CSKA Moscow
Career highlights and awards
As player: 2× EuroLeague champion (1961, 1963) 8× USSR Premier League champion (1959—1966) 2× Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (1959, 1963) Master of Sports of the USSR (1953) Honored Master of Sports of the USSR USSR Order of the Badge of Honor (1965) Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2006) As head coach: 2× USSR Premier League champion (1968, 1969) EuroLeague champion 1969) Honored Coach of the Russian SSFR (1969)
Medals Men's Basketball Representing Soviet Union Summer Olympic Games Tokyo 1964 FIBA EuroBasket USSR 1953 Yugoslavia 1961 Poland 1963 USSR 1965

Armenak Alachachian Armenak Misakovich (alternate spellings: Alachachyan, Alajajian, Alatchatchan) (Armenian: Արմենակ Միսակի Ալաջաջյան, December 25, 1930 – December 4, 2017) was an Armenian-Soviet basketball player and coach. A point guard, he reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was the first person to ever win a EuroLeague title as both a player and a coach.

Club career

Alachachian helped CSKA lift its first EuroLeague title in 1961. He added a second title in 1963, and reached another final in 1965, before retiring.

National team career

As a player of the senior men's Soviet national team, Alachachian won four gold medals at the 1953, 1961, 1963, and 1965 EuroBasket, as well as a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games.

Coaching career

Aleksandar Gomelsky, at the time CSKA's sports director, assigned him at the coach position in the late 1960s, and Alachachian led the Reds to the 1969 Euroleague title, thus becoming the first man to lift the trophy, as both a player and a coach.

2014 Yerevan Youth International Basketball tournament in honor of Armenak Alachachyan

See also

• List of EuroLeague-winning head coaches

References

• FIBA Profile "Armenak Alachachian"
• FIBA Profile "Armenak Alatchatchan"
• Fibaeurope.com Profile
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Armenak Alachachian". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
• Euroleague.net - Player nominees for Euroleague's 50 Greatest Contributors
• Armenak Alachachian's obituary