Egor Koulechov

Egor Koulechov was born in 1994 in Volgograd

Koulechov was born in Volgograd, Russia, and is Jewish. In 2001 he moved with his family to Israel, where he grew up in Kibbutz Neve Ur and in Rishon LeZion. He played in the youth teams of Maccabi Rishon LeZion and joined the Wingate Institute academy in 2010.

In 2011 he moved to the United States and played for Sagemont school in Weston, Florida. He played college basketball at Arizona State, then transferred to Rice, where he was named to the first team of Conference USA. After graduating from Rice in 2017, he played one more season at Florida as a graduate student.

In 2018 he signed with Maccabi Rishon LeZion and won the Israeli League Cup with the club. He later played for Hapoel Holon, Ironi Nahariya, UNICS Kazan, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Hapoel Jerusalem. He also played in Iceland for Keflavík and later joined Ironi Ness Ziona.

Koulechov played for Israel's under-16, under-18 and under-20 national teams. In 2018 he was called up to Israel's senior national team but was left out of the squad because he wanted to play for Russia.