German Nikolayevich Apukhtin (; born 12 June 1936 - 200312 июня — день в истории ЦСКА
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Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

bronze: 1958, 1964. *

1960 European Nations' Cup The 1960 European Nations' Cup was the inaugural tournament of the UEFA European Championship, held every four years and organised by UEFA. The first tournament was held in France. It was won by the Soviet Union, who beat Yugoslavia 2–1 in Par ...

winner: 1960. * Top 33 players year-end list: 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960.

International career

Apukhtin made his debut for

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on 1 June 1957 in a friendly against

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. He played in the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

. He was selected for the squad for the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets were champions, but did not play in any games at the tournament.

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Profile (in Russian)
1936 births 2003 deaths Russian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players UEFA European Championship–winning players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Metallurg Lipetsk players SC Odesa players Soviet Top League players Footballers from Moscow Men's association football forwards 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-forward-1930s-stub