Ruslan Otverchenko

{{Short description|Ukrainian basketball player (1990–2023)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ruslan Otverchenko

| image = Ruslan Otverchenko Руслан Отверченко (6935165427).jpg

| caption = Otverchenko in 2012

| birth_date = {{birth date|1990|1|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|15|1990|1|6|df=yes}}

| death_place = Kyiv, Ukraine

| nationality = Ukrainian

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 180

| draft_year = 2012

| career_start =

| career_end =

| career_position = Shooting guard

| career_number = 9, 77

| years1=2012–2015

| team1=BC Kyiv

| years2=2012–2013

| team2=→Donetsk

| years3=2015–2016

| team3=Manresa

| years4=2016–2018

| team4=Budivelnyk

| years5=2018–2019

| team5=Cherkaski Mavpy

| years6=2019

| team6=Kyiv-Basket

| years7=2019–2020

| team7=Prometey

| years8=2020–2023

| team8=Budivelnyk

| highlights =

}}

Ruslan Otverchenko ({{langx|uk|Руслан Отверченко}}; 6 January 1990 – 15 January 2023) was a Ukrainian basketball player for SC Prometey and the Ukrainian National Team.[https://web.archive.org/web/20171007221413/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Ruslan_Otverchenko/pid//_//players.html FIBA profile]

Otverchenko played the majority of his career in Ukraine, with exception of one season in Spain with Bàsquet Manresa. He participated at the EuroBasket 2017.[http://www.fiba.basketball/eurobasket/2017/Ruslan-Otverchenko EuroBasket 2017 profile]

Otverchenko died from heart complications in Kyiv on 15 January 2023, at the age of 33.[https://basket.com.ua/news/pishov-z-zhyttya-ukrayinskyj-basketbolist-ruslan-otverchenko/ Пішов з життя український баскетболіст Руслан Отверченко]