Yefim Chulak

{{Short description|Russian volleyball player (born 1948)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox volleyball biography | name = Yefim Chulak | image = Yefim Chulak b.jpg |caption = Yefim Chulak | fullname = Yefim Aronovich Chulak | nickname = Ефим Аронович Чулак | nationality = Russian | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|7|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Ceadîr-Lunga, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | position = | height = | weight = | spike = | block = | team = | years = | clubs = | nationalyears = | nationalteam = {{vb|USSR}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's volleyball}} {{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }} center|80px {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver| 1976 Montreal |Team}} {{MedalBronze| 1972 Munich |Team}} }}

'''Yefim Aronovich Chulak''' ({{langx|ru|Ефим Аронович Чулак }}, born 15 July 1948) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He is Jewish.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists|author=Paul Taylor|date=2004|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=9781903900871|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC|page=226|access-date=2015-05-17}}</ref>

In 1972, Chulak was part of the Soviet team that won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches.

Four years later, Chulak won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1976 Olympic tournament.<ref name="google"/> He played all five matches.

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==External links== * {{Sports-Reference|ch/yefim-chulak-1}} * {{Olympics.com|yefim-chulak}}

{{Soviet Union men's volleyball squad 1972 Summer Olympics}} {{Soviet Union squad 1974 FIVB Men's World Championship}} {{Soviet Union men's volleyball squad 1976 Summer Olympics}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chulak, Yefim}} Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:People from Gagauzia Category:Moldovan Jews Category:Soviet Jews Category:Soviet men's volleyball players Category:Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Category:Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Category:Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic medalists in volleyball Category:Russian men's volleyball players Category:Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Category:20th-century Russian sportsmen