Aleksei Uversky

Aleksei Uversky
Personal information
Full name Aleksei Ivanovich Uversky
Date of birth 12 February 1886 (NS)
Place of birth Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date of death 1942 (age 55-56)
Place of death Leningrad, USSR
Position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1906 Natsionaly Saint Petersburg
1907–1913 Sport Saint Petersburg
International career
1912 Russia 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aleksei Ivanovich Uversky (Russian: Алексей Иванович Уверский) (12 February 1886(NS) – 1942) was an association football player.

He was born in St Petersburg, illegitimate son of a peasant woman, Euphrosyne Petrovna Lyarskaya and adopted in 1889 by merchant Ivan Osipovich Uversky whose patronymic he took.

Uversky made his debut for Russia on July 1, 1912, in a 1912 Olympics game against Germany.

He was also a keen boxer.

He died during World War II as a civilian during the Siege of Leningrad, reportedly in hospital from wounds received serving on the frontline.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Aleksei Uversky". Profile. Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2021.Russian language.
  2. ↑ "Aleksei Uversky". Olympedia. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2018.