Alexander Gennadevich Mogilny is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and the current president of Amur Khabarovsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was the first National Hockey League (NHL) draftee to defect from the Soviet Union in order to play in North America.
Mogilny is a Slavic masculine surname. Its feminine counterpart is Mogilnaya. It may refer to
Valentin Grigoryevich Mankin was a Soviet/Ukrainian sailor from Kyiv, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in international play, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold medals in 1984, 1988 and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.
Donald Harold Luce is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre, executive and scout. Luce played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings and Toronto Maple Leafs from 1969 to 1982.
Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
Sofia Ivanovna Muratova was a Soviet gymnast. She competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won eight medals.
Olga Anatolyevna Bicherova is a retired Soviet gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Pavel Cebanu is a former Moldovan football player who played as a midfielder. He spent his entire career, from 1973 to 1985, at the Moldovan side Nistru Chişinău. He was captain for many years and played 372 games scoring 46 goals.
Valentin Stănescu was a Romanian football goalkeeper and manager.
Valentin Dimitrov Yordanov, also transliterated Jordanov, is a retired Bulgarian freestyle wrestler who competed in the up to 52 kg weight class. He is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time World Champion, seven-time European Champion, and the only wrestler to hold 10 medals from the World Wrestling Championships.
Yuri Nikolayevich Korolyov was a Soviet artistic gymnast who competed during the 1980s, winning many World and European Medals. Part of a deep Soviet team that, throughout the 1980s, featured such names as Dmitry Bilozerchev, Valeri Liukin, Vladimir Artemov, Valentin Mogilny, and others, Korolyov still managed to distinguish himself for the greater part of the decade by becoming World All-Around Champion in 1981 and 1985, as well as being World Cup All-Around Co-Champion in 1986, among many other titles and medals.
Valentin Borisovich Bubukin was a Soviet/Russian footballer.
Valentin Gavrilovich Ivakin was a Soviet football goalkeeper and manager.
Valentin Aleksandrovich Nikolayev was a Soviet football player and coach.
Ice hockey in Russia is one of the most popular sports in the country.
Georgy Glazkov was a Soviet football player and coach who played as a forward.
Valentin Sinescu is a Romanian football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, Sinescu played for Astra Ploiești in the lower leagues, during the 1980s and 1990s. In parallel with his football career, Sinescu studied petrochemical engineering and then worked as an engineer at the Ploiești Refinery, hence his nickname, "the engineer".
Valentin Nikolaevich Piseev was a general director of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia and the member of Russian Olympic Committee. He had been the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation before becoming a director, and the president of the Figure Skating Federation of the USSR.
Alexander Alexandrov is the former head of the USSR, Russian, and Brazilian women's artistic gymnastics national teams, and former personal coach of World and Olympic Champions Aliya Mustafina, Rozalia Galiyeva, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Valentin Mogilny, and others. Alexandrov also coached for a period in the United States, where he led Carly Patterson, Mohini Bhardwaj, Dominique Moceanu, and Kim Zmeskal to World and Olympic medals as the head of the Houston Gymnastics Club.
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