Nikolai Georgiyevich Puchkov (, 30 January 1930 – 8 August 2005) was a Russian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) 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. Tw ...

goaltender. He was part of the Soviet teams that won two Olympic and seven world championship medals between 1954 and 1960, including three gold medals. He was named the best goaltender of the 1959 World Championships and won the European title in 1954–56 and 1958–60. In 1954 he was inducted into the

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. Domestically, Puchkov won nine Soviet titles with VVS Moscow and CSKA Moscow. In 1962, he moved to Saint Petersburg, and after retiring the next year, he coached SKA Leningrad until 1980. In the 1970s, he also assisted

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with the Soviet national team. In 1980–1990, he trained Izhorets Leningrad, and from 1990 to 2002 coached Swedish and Finnish clubs. He worked with the junior team of SKA St Petersburg for three years until his sudden death on the way to a training session. In 2007, a goaltending school named after Puchkov was opened in Saint Petersburg.

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* 1930 births 2005 deaths Ice hockey people from Moscow Communist Party of the Soviet Union members HC CSKA Moscow players Ice hockey players at the 1956 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1960 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic ice hockey players for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in ice hockey SKA Saint Petersburg players Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian ice hockey coaches Russian ice hockey goaltenders Soviet ice hockey coaches Soviet ice hockey goaltenders {{USSR-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub