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Born | Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | 8 October 1939|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 August 2023 | (aged 83)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SKA Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boris Yakovlevich Dubrovsky ( Russian: Борис Яковлевич Дубровский, 8 October 1939 – 14 August 2023) was a Russian rower who had his best achievements in the double sculls, partnering with Oleg Tyurin. In this event, they won an Olympic gold in 1964 [1] and four medals at European and world championships in 1962–1965. [2] [3]
Dubrovsky was born to teachers Yakov Vasilievich Dubrovsky (1903–?) and Natalya Timofeevna Kuvaeva (1909–?) and has a sister Masha (born 1941). He has a PhD in theoretical physics, and from 1967 to 2003 taught calculus in a university. There he met his wife, Evgeniya Aleksandrovna, a mathematician. They had a son, Timofei (born 1964), who moved to the United States in the 1990s. [4]
Boris Dubrovskiy died on 14 August 2023, at the age of 83. [5]