On January 2, 2021, at the eighty-eighth year, the master of sports of the USSR in basketball, candidate of technical sciences, professor of the department of physical education of KNURE Evgeny Borokhovsky passed away.
His contribution to the history of sports is invaluable: for many years he multiplied the glory of Kharkov basketball, playing for the SKA teams (Kiev) in the USSR championship, as part of the Kharkov national team, he became a prize-winner of the Ukrainian SSR Spartakiad (1959), worked as a coach of the «Builder» team (Kharkov). The student teams of Kharkov headed by him became champions and prize-winners of student championships of the Ukrainian SSR.