Photographs relating to the Soviet Union men's national basketball team during its New Zealand tour. Matches between the Soviet Union and New Zealand, the Soviet Union and Australia, and the Soviet Union and the American All Stars are seen. Soviet players identified in photographs include Valerii Tikhonenko; Valerii Goborov; Val Demaras; Tiij Sook; George Rescov; Gundars Vetra; Alexandr Volkov; Vladimir Tkachenko; and Valdemaras Khomicus. New Zealand players Byron Vaetoe, Glen Denham, Mark Graham, Gilbert Gordon; Australian player Paul Kuiper; and American All Stars player Ronnie Joyner are also identified.