Vladimir Aleksandrovich Torban (Russian: Владимир Александрович Торбан; 10 December 1932 – 19 August 2011) was a Soviet basketball player.

He trained as a tennis player in the 1940s and only in the 1950s started playing basketball for Dynamo Moscow.

Next year, he won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He became European champion in 1957 and 1959;[1] in 1959, he also won a national title and competed at the world championship, where he held the highest live scoring rate (57%).

[2] However, his team was disqualified for refusing to play against Taiwan.