Pyotr Ilyich Vorobyov (; ; born 28 January 1949) is a Russian professional

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 ...

coach and former player. Vorobyov was the head coach of the gold medal winning CIS men's national junior ice hockey team in 1992.

Playing career

Vorobyov played in the

Soviet Championship League The Soviet Hockey Championship () was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia, instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy. Foll ...

for

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

(1968–79).

Coaching career

Vorobyov was an assistant coach for

from 1982 till 1989. From 1990 till 1992, he was an assistant coach for Dynamo Moscow but in the 1992–93 season, he became their head coach. Vorobiev was the only coach of the CIS men's national junior ice hockey team during the 1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships where his team won the gold medal. After that Vorobyov was the head coach for Frankfurt Lions, Torpedo Yaroslavl (as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was known then), Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and Lada Togliatti. In 2006, Vorobyov became the head coach of the Latvia men's national ice hockey team. Next he returned to the Russian Superleague to coach Khimik Mytischy and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. When the Kontinental Hockey League began, he managed to reach the 1/8 final with Lada Togliatti. On 8 February 2010, he resigned from coaching Lada to return to Yaroslavl to coach Lokomotiv Yaroslavl once again. At the end of the season, he was hired to coach the junior team Loko of the Russian Junior Hockey League (MHL). Vorobyov's third stint coaching Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was from 2011 to 2014, replacing Brad McCrimmon as head coach after McCrimmon and the entire team was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. Finally, Vorobiev coached SKA-1946 in 2015-16, and SKA-Neva in 2016-17 and the SKA Saint Petersburg junior team for 3 seasons from 2017 to 2020.

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