Sergei Mikhailovich Shepelev (russian: Сергей Михайлович Шепелев); born October 13, 1955 in

Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil ( rus, Нижний Тагил, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj tɐˈgʲil) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the boundary between Asia and Europe. Population: History The prehistory of Nizhny Tagil dates back to the mid-1 ...

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) is a retired

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...

player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played left wing for

HC Spartak Moscow HC Spartak Moscow (russian: ХК Спартак Москва, en, Spartak Moskva) is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They played in the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League during the 2013–14 season. Howe ...

. Internationally, he was a member of the USSR national ice hockey team that won the 1981 Canada Cup and the gold medal at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки иг� ...

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. He was named to the 1981 Canada Cup All-Star Team. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981.

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Regular season and playoffs

International

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Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio
* 1955 births Living people HC Spartak Moscow players Soviet ice hockey centres Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic ice hockey players of the Soviet Union Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples People from Nizhny Tagil Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast {{Russia-icehockey-winger-stub