Alexander Pavlovich Ermolinskij (; born November 11, 1959) is an Ukraninan-Icelandic basketball coach and a former basketball player. He was an assistant coach for Nadezhda Orenburg from 2010 to 2021. He played for both the Soviet Union national basketball team and Icelandic national basketball team.
Ermolinskij was born in Vologda in the Soviet Union.
After playing for Honvéd for two seasons, where he won the Hungarian Cup in 1991, Ermolinskij joined SkallagrÃÂmur of the Icelandic ÃÂrvalsdeild karla in 1992.
Ermolinskij joined GrindavÃÂk in 1999 and helped the club win the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 2000.
Early in his career, Ermolinskij played for the Soviet Union national basketball team. In 1997 he received an Icelandic citizenship and subsequently he was selected for the Icelandic national team that won bronze in the 1997 Games of the Small States of Europe. In total Ermolinskij played 6 games for Iceland.
Ermolinskij's younger son, Pavel Ermolinskij, plays for KR, in the ÃÂrvalsdeild karla, and is a member of the Icelandic national basketball team. His older son, Andrei, played two games in the ÃÂrvalsdeild karla for Körfuknattleiksfélag ÃÂA during the 1998âÂÂ1999 season.