Nikolai Georgievich Putschkov

Nikolai Putschkov
Date of birth	January 30, 1930
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
date of death	August 8, 2005
Place of death	Saint Petersburg , Russia
size	173 cm
Weight	74 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Right
Career stations
1949-1953	WWS MWO Moscow
1953-1962	HK CSKA Moscow
1962-1963	SKA Leningrad

Nikolai Georgievich Putschkow ( Russian: Николай Георгиевич Пучков ; born January 30, 1930 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ; † August 8, 2005 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach . He played for WWS MWO Moscow and HK ZSKA Moscow , among others .

Career

Putschkow began his career at WWS MWO Moscow , for which he initially played as a football goalkeeper and completed 21 games by 1952. From 1950 he was a permanent member of the club's ice hockey squad and won three Soviet championship titles with it until its dissolution in 1953. He was then delegated to CSKA Moscow, where he played until 1963 and won six other championship titles. In total, he completed 220 league games in the top Soviet league.

Putschkov was the first goalkeeper for the Soviet national team to win the gold medal on their debut at the 1954 World Ice Hockey Championship . Two years later, in 1956 , Putschkow became Olympic champion in Cortina d'Ampezzo . By 1960 he won three more silver medals at world championships before ending his national team career in 1963. In total, he was on the ice in 90 international matches.

After finishing his playing career Putschkow worked as a coach. Between 1973 and 1974 he was assistant coach of Vsevolod Bobrov at Sbornaya and supervised them at the 1973 and 1974 World Cup.

Between 1963 and 1980 and in the 2001/02 season he was in charge of SKA Leningrad , with which he achieved the greatest success in the club's history in 1971 with third place in the Soviet championship . He also won the Spengler Cup with SKA in 1970 and 1971 . Between 1980 and 1990 he was the head coach of Ischorez Leningrad .

From 2002 until his death Putschkow worked in the youth division and the sports school of the SKA Saint Petersburg. Putschkov died at the age of 75 and was buried in the North Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. In 2007 a school for ice hockey goalkeepers named Nikolai Georgievich Putschkow was founded .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ klisf.info, Пучков Николай Георгиевич
2. ↑ sovsport.ru, Death overtook him on the way to training ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ vratari.ne, Школа хоккейных вратарей им. Николая Георгиевича Пучкова

Web links

• Nikolai Putschkow at azhockey.com
• Nikolai Putschkow at eurohockey.com
• Nikolai Georgijewitsch Putschkow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )