Uways Akhtayev - the Chechen giant of USSR
- may Allaah have mercy on him
taken from: http://www.thetallestman.com/uvaysakhtaev.htm
Uvays Akhtaev - 7'7.3" (231.9 cm)
Uvays Mazhidovich Akhtaev (1930-1978) was a prominent basketball player, master of sport in the former Soviet Union. Being a 232-centimeter-high man, he was to be famed for this very sport. The central stadium in Grozny was named after this player. He graduated from the Karaganda Physical Culture college and was going in for boxing, wrestling, track-and-field athletics, putting the shot and discus throwing.
As a college student Akhtaev participated in discus throwing competition at a student Olympics in the city of L’vov in 1946. But he was primarily a basketball player by birth. Isaac Camlevich was his first coach in Karaganda. In 1946 Akhtaev moved to Alma-Ata and became a member of the Kazakh team. As a basketball star he was noticed at the 1947 student Olympics. Previously the team was not successful enough, but after Akhtaev became its pivot of a phenomenal height, the team succeeded in reaching the Major League.
In 1948 he took part in the country’s basketball championship in Moscow. According to an article issued in the newspaper “Sovietsky Sport” in September 1948, the play of the Alma-Ata team was formed on a unique technique of a giant player. Other teams’ coaches were elaborating various tactic scenarios to leave Akhtaev without a ball. But being a slow person in everyday life, Akhtaev acted as a player of great technical skills. Playing at the stadium Dynamo he attracted numerous fans. Uvays Akhtaev participated in the basketball championship in Odessa (1950) and Erevan (1952). In 1956 he played in the Kazakh team at the Soviet Olympics taking a victory over the teams of Moscow and Leningrad. In 1959 he left the sportdom.
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- may Allaah have mercy on him
taken from: http://www.thetallestman.com/uvaysakhtaev.htm
Uvays Akhtaev - 7'7.3" (231.9 cm)
Uvays Mazhidovich Akhtaev (1930-1978) was a prominent basketball player, master of sport in the former Soviet Union. Being a 232-centimeter-high man, he was to be famed for this very sport. The central stadium in Grozny was named after this player. He graduated from the Karaganda Physical Culture college and was going in for boxing, wrestling, track-and-field athletics, putting the shot and discus throwing.
As a college student Akhtaev participated in discus throwing competition at a student Olympics in the city of L’vov in 1946. But he was primarily a basketball player by birth. Isaac Camlevich was his first coach in Karaganda. In 1946 Akhtaev moved to Alma-Ata and became a member of the Kazakh team. As a basketball star he was noticed at the 1947 student Olympics. Previously the team was not successful enough, but after Akhtaev became its pivot of a phenomenal height, the team succeeded in reaching the Major League.
In 1948 he took part in the country’s basketball championship in Moscow. According to an article issued in the newspaper “Sovietsky Sport” in September 1948, the play of the Alma-Ata team was formed on a unique technique of a giant player. Other teams’ coaches were elaborating various tactic scenarios to leave Akhtaev without a ball. But being a slow person in everyday life, Akhtaev acted as a player of great technical skills. Playing at the stadium Dynamo he attracted numerous fans. Uvays Akhtaev participated in the basketball championship in Odessa (1950) and Erevan (1952). In 1956 he played in the Kazakh team at the Soviet Olympics taking a victory over the teams of Moscow and Leningrad. In 1959 he left the sportdom.