This was reported by the press service of "Salavat Yulaev".
As a hockey player, Nikolai Mikhailovich played for the Ufa club from 1967 to 1979, after which he was a member of the team's coaching staff.
His son, Nikolai Zavarukhin Jr., played in the Russian championship from 1993 to 2009, and now works as an assistant coach at Avtomobilist.
Earlier it was reported that the former Ugra hockey player Tronchinski died at the age of 32.