Background
Victor Petrovich Vlasov was born on November 1, 1925 in Moscow.
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Victor Petrovich Vlasov was born on November 1, 1925 in Moscow.
Victor began to do sport at the age of 11 in the Dynamo Sports Club. Also in "Dynamo" got into basketball and fell in love with this game.
The fighter of the labor front Victor Vlasov, who was working during the Great Patriotic War in 1943 at one of the Moscow defense plants, joined the Voluntary Sports Society (VSS) "Trudovye Rezervy" and continued persistently and regularly playing basketball. Until 1946, he successfully played for the basketball team "Trudovye Rezervy" (Moscow). In 1946, he was called in the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and actually served in the Moscow "Dynamo". As a trainee of VSS "Dynamo", Victor Vlasov as a member of the Moscow "Dynamo" in 1948 became the champion of the USSR, two years later - the finalist of the USSR Cup, then in 1956, he became the silver medalist of the national championship and twice in a row (in 1957 and 1958) won the bronze medal.
In 1949, as a member of the USSR national team, Victor Vlasov won the first World Student Games, and two years later - in 1951 he won this title for the second time. Participating in 1951 in the European Championships in Paris as part of the USSR national team, Victor Vlasov became the European Champion for the first time, and two years later in Moscow confirmed this high title by his selfless play.
At the debut basketball competitions for the Soviet national team at the Olympic Games in 1952 in Helsinki (Finland) Victor Vlasov played all eight games and together with his teammates deservedly received a high award - a silver Olympic medal. In the 1950s, confined to the World Youth and Student Festivals, International Youth Sports Games were held three times. Victor Vlasov, as a member of the USSR national team, became the winner in all of these competitions.
Playing for the Moscow team, Victor Vlasov more than once became a prizewinner of the prestigious All-Union tournament "Match of Cities", and in 1956, he became a silver medalist of the First Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.
Vlasov ended his career as a player at the age of 34 years, but he did not part with Dynamo. In 1959-1969, he worked as a coach, then a senior coach of the men's team "Dynamo" (Moscow). And from 1969 to retirement he was the head coach of the Central Council (CC) VSS "Dynamo".