Yuri Ivanovich Shikunov (

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: Юрий Иванович Шикунов; 8 December 1939 – 15 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian

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who played as a

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Honours

Club

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 ...

runner-up:

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Country

UEFA European Championship The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The competition ...

runner-up:

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

Individual

* Included in list of the 33 best players of the USSR ** No. 2: 1960 ** No. 3: 1961

Awards

* Master of Sports of the USSR: 1960 * Honoured Coach of the Russian SFSR: 1990

References

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