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Zakhar Andreevich Vedishchev (Russian: Захар Андреевич Ведищев, born July 9, 2000, Russia) — is a Russian professional basketball player for PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban of the VTB League and the EuroCup. He also represented the youth Russian national team. At a height of 1.97 m tall, and a weight of 83 kg (226 lbs.), he plays mainly at the shooting guard position, but he can also play at the small forward position.

Professional career
In the season 2018/2019, Vedishchev was one of the leaders of Lokomotiv-Kuban-2 in the VTB United Youth League with an average of 18 points, 2.6 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game.

In December 2018, Vedishchev was named the MVP of the month of the VTB United Youth League. In 7 games, Zakhar scored 19.9 points, 1.6 assists and 2.3 rebounds.

Zakhar also took part in 11 matches for Lokomotiv-Kuban-TsOP in Super League-2 and scored 15.6 points, 2.3 assists and 3 rebounds.

Vedishchev started the season 2019/2020 at the Lithuanian BC Nevėžis on loan and scored 6.6 points on average per game in 8 games. In December 2019, Zakhar returned to Lokomotiv-Kuban.

National team career
Vedishchev was playing his first international tournament for a Russia team that finished fourth at the FIBA U18 European Championship 2018. The small forward had spent the last couple of years in the United States at the famed prep school Monteverde Academy, practicing with the likes of RJ Barrett. Vedishchev, the son of Lokomotiv Kuban president Andrey Vedischev, went to the United States to learn English and get used to the athleticism of American basketball.

He showed in Heraklion that the exposure had paid off, leading the Russian team in scoring with 16.5 points per game to go with 2.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 40 percent from three-point range. Vedishchev stepped up his game in the final three games, scoring at least 22 points in all of them including a 24-point showing against the United States in the Quarter-Finals and then 22 points and 9 assists against Serbia in Classification 5-8 as the Russians ended up fifth in the tournament.

In July 2019 Vedishchev received an invitation to the training camp for the nearest reserve of Russian national team.