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Nikolai Puchkov

1930 - 2005

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Nikolai Georgiyevich Puchkov (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Пучков, 30 January 1930 – 8 August 2005) was a Russian ice hockey 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 Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Puchkov is the 2,096th most popular athlete (down from 1,857th in 2019), the 2,404th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,426th in 2019) and the 105th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 2,096 out of 6,025. Before him are Ahmed Al-Maktoum, Jutta Kirst, Carl-Friedrich Freiherr von Langen, Svetla Otsetova, Luis Martínez, and Pam Kilborn. After him are Medea Jugeli, Kurt Lundquist, Gabriele Rossetti, Sultan Rakhmanov, Kalevi Oikarainen, and Brahim Boutayeb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 578. Before him are Robert Detweiler, Richard A. Falk, Ed Thigpen, Gordon Pinsent, Ronald Stretton, and Adebayo Adedeji. After him are Lynden Pindling, Marie Corridon, Mary Costa, Don Meineke, Sándor Csoóri, and Jim Loscutoff. Among people deceased in 2005, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 330. Before him are M. Scott Peck, Long John Baldry, Peter Jennings, Keith Andes, Christopher Fry, and Robert Creeley. After him are Misael Escuti, August Wilson, Paul Winchell, Georges Dransart, Harold J. Stone, and Eugene J. Martin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 2,404 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Zhukov (1956), Alexey Okladnikov (1908), Igor Presnyakov (1960), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (1982), Vladimir Rushailo (1953), and Margarita Simonyan (1980). After him are Yelena Baturina (1963), Vitaly Mutko (1958), Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (1955), Alexey Ulyukaev (1956), Oxana Fedorova (1977), and Irena Krzywicka (1899).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 105. Before him are Antonina Lazareva (1941), Yevgeni Mayorov (1938), Aleksey Spiridonov (1951), Yelena Romanova (1963), Igor Nikulin (1960), and Olga Mineyeva (1952). After him are Valentina Sidorova (1954), Viktor Markin (1957), Rudolf Povarnitsyn (1962), Nikolay Zimyatov (1955), Nikolay Kruglov (1950), and Viktor Rashchupkin (1950).

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