Alexander Georgievich Komarov

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Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Alexander Komarov Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 25, 1923
place of birth Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR
date of death 22nd November 2013
Place of death Samara , Russia
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1948-1949 SKA Khabarovsk
1949-1958 CSKA Moscow
1958-1959 SKWO Leningrad

Alexander Georgievich Komarow ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Комаров ; born July 25, 1923 in Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR ; † November 22, 2013 in Samara ) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach .

Career

As a player

Komarow began his career in the 1948/49 season at SKA Khabarovsk and was obliged by the Red Army Sports Club , ZDSA Moscow , due to the performance shown . With ZDSA and ZSKA he was Soviet champion in 1950, 1955, 1956 and 1958 and runner-up in 1952, 1953 and 1954. He also won the Soviet Ice Hockey Cup with his team in 1954, 1955 and 1956 . In 1958 he moved within Class A to SKWO Leningrad , where he ended his career a year later.

In total, by the end of his career, he had scored 101 goals in 170 Class A games.

International

In 1954 he was appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team and played the first official international game of the USSR against Finland on January 29, 1954 . At the ice hockey world championship in 1954 he won the gold medal with the Sbornaja , at the tournament a year later the silver medal. In 1954 he was named the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR .

For the national team, he scored a total of 11 goals in 30 international matches. On December 29, 1956, he played his last international match.

As a trainer

Between 1958 and 1962 he was the head coach of SKA Leningrad . In 1963 he became the trainer of the SKA Kuibyshev and held this position until 1968. In the 1973/74 season he returned to the same club as a coach.

Achievements and Awards

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