Vladimir Grigoryevich Proskurin (; 24 January 1945 – 19 July 2020) was a

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player and coach. He is most notable as the co-top scorer of the 1969 Soviet Top League with 16 goals. He was not awarded the top scorer prize as the Trud newspaper which was awarding said prize suspected that the last game of the season, in which he scored a hat-trick to catch up to Nikolai Osyanin on the scorers list, was fixed (his team

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played

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with a score of 3-3, Kutaisi's Dzhemal Kherhadze, who also scored a hat-trick to catch up with Osyanin, was not awarded the prize either). Formally the decision was justified by Osyanin scoring in "more important" games.

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1945 births Footballers from Voronezh 2020 deaths Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers FC Fakel Voronezh players FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players FC Spartak Moscow players Soviet Top League players Soviet football managers Russian football managers FC Fakel Voronezh managers Men's association football forwards 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-forward-stub