Career
A creative point guard, he reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the senior men"s Soviet Union national team Alachachian"s great understanding of the game helped CSKA lift its first Euroleague title in 1961. He added a second title in 1963, and reached another final in 1965, before retiring.
Aleksandar Gomelsky, at the time CSKA"s sports director, assigned him at the coach position in the late 60"s, 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.