Nikolay Semyonovich Epshtein (russian: Николай Семёнович Эпштейн) (27 December 1919 – 27 August 2005) was a Soviet
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 ...
coach.
Biography
Epshtein, who was Jewish, was born in
Kolomna
Kolomna ( rus, Колóмна, p=kɐˈlomnə) is a historical city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka Rivers, (by rail) southeast of Moscow. Population:
History
Mentioned for the first time in 1177, Kol ...
,
Russian FSFR.
He coached from 1953 to 1975 in the
Soviet National League
The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships ...
as head coach of
Chimik in
Voskresensk Voskresensk (russian: Воскресенск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities
;Urban localities
* Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, a town in Voskresensky District of Moscow Oblast
;Rural localities
* Voskresen ...
.
He was also head coach of the
Soviet Union national ice hockey team
The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships ...
and the Soviet Junior National Team that won a European Championship.
He was inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere aroun ...
in 2001.
He was an inaugural inductee to the Russian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2005.
He died from
Alzheimers in 2005.
See also
*
List of select Jewish coaches
References
External links
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame bio
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1919 births
2005 deaths
Jewish ice hockey players
People from Kolomna
Russian Jews
Soviet ice hockey coaches
Soviet Jews