“A cruiser confidently cutting waves”: Vyacheslav Starshinov - 80
2020-05-06T07:00:20.374Z
On May 6, the celebrated Soviet hockey player Vyacheslav Starshinov celebrates his anniversary. At 18, the striker was on the main team of Moscow Spartak, where he later became part of the legendary link with his brothers Boris and Evgeny Mayorov. As part of the red and white, he spent 540 matches and became the first hockey player to score 400 goals in the championships of the USSR. As part of the national team nine times won the highest awards of the World Cup and twice - Olympic gold. After his career, he worked as the head coach of Spartak and the Japanese Oji Seisi. In 2007, Starshinov was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Hockey Federation.
Source: russiart