Victor was born on June 4, 1930 in Moscow. Passion for hockey is in Viktor Tikhonov’s blood. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he played on many hockey teams in Moscow. Having gained experience, he became an assistant coach in the Dynamo team (Moscow). Then he became the head coach at Dynamo Riga. Already there, Tikhonov’s biography became known as an advanced coach, because he was able to lead the team to 4th place in the USSR Championship.
Tikhonov was able to reveal himself even more as a coach together with CSKA. He showed unsurpassed results, winning the national championship 14 times and the European Champions Cup 14 times. Then, having led the national team in 1977, he began to conquer the World Championship. Surprisingly, the USSR national team became world champion seven times under the leadership of Tikhonov (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990).
Also in the biography of Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov, victories at the Olympic Games stand out as a separate achievement. The USSR national team received gold in 1984, 1988, 1992. Tikhonov’s team won the Canada Cup once - in 1981.
There were also losses in Tikhonov’s biography. So, during the 1980 Olympics, his team lost to the USA, and at the 1984 Olympics they did not win anything at all. This result turned out to be unbearable for the coach: Tikhonov left his post as coach of the national team. In 2003, at the request, he returned to coaching again, but not for long: in 2004, after losing at the World Championships, he left again.
Biography score
Honored Trainer of the USSR, Honored Trainer of the Latvian SSR, Honored Physical Education Worker of Russia, three-time Olympic champion, eight-time world champion, fourteen-time European champion, eight-time USSR champion, fourteen-time European Champions Cup winner
Born on June 4, 1930 in Moscow. Father - Tikhonov Vasily Prokhorovich (1906–1942), participant in the Great Patriotic War. Mother - Tikhonova Anna Ivanovna (1909–1984), worker. Wife – Tatyana Vasilievna Tikhonova (born 1933), lawyer. Son – Vasily Viktorovich Tikhonov (born 1958), professional trainer. Granddaughter - Tikhonova Tatyana Vasilievna (born 1984). Grandson - Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov (born 1988), professional hockey player.
Viktor Vasilyevich was born into a working-class family. His father, a worker at one of the military factories, died in 1942 near Stalingrad. Mother worked in a blacksmith shop. The boy’s childhood with Malaya Sukharevskaya ended early. After the 4th grade, he went to work as a mechanic at the 1st (Bakhmetyevsky) bus depot (since 1945, the 3rd bus depot). There I forever learned a simple truth: the main thing in life is to persevere, despite any difficulties and adversity. I was terribly tired, but youth took its toll: in the summer I wanted to play football, and in the winter I wanted to play bandy. Ice hockey was not yet known in the country at that time. The neighbor boy Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the future famous Soviet and Russian poet, often turned out to be a partner or rival. Victor continued his studies in 1943, and completed it at the School of Trade Apprenticeship. In 1945, he began training in the youth team of the sports club of the Central House of the Red Army (CDKA, now the CSKA club). Then he played for three years as a captain in the first youth team, then in the first team of the first men's football team of the Moscow Burevestnik, until the club was disbanded. He was a member of the Moscow junior football team that won the USSR Cup in 1948. At the same time, he played Russian hockey, and a little later - ice hockey.
At the “Burevestnik” stadium - the site where the Olympic sports complex now stands - the senior coach and leading hockey player of the army club of the Air Force (VVS) of the Moscow Military District (MVO) V.M. drew attention to him. Bobrov. The Central House of the Red Army was located nearby, and many CDKA athletes came to the Burevestnik stadium to watch the games of the Moscow championship. In 1949, Viktor Tikhonov, who was drafted into the army after graduation, was immediately invited to the football and hockey team of the Moscow Military District Air Force, which was supervised by his son I.V. Stalin, Lieutenant General V.I. Stalin. In the same 1949, he played in the reserve team of the football team, where the best athletes of the USSR were gathered. On January 7, 1950, in a plane crash near Sverdlovsk, a hockey team of military aviators tragically died, with the exception of several players. Among the young guys who replaced the dead masters was Viktor Tikhonov, a football player who moved from the green lawn to the ice field. On the team he found himself next to the aces of Soviet hockey: V.M. Bobrov, E.M. Babich, V.G. Shuvalov, G.M. Mkrtchyan, P.N. Zhiburtovich. He played in this team until 1953 inclusive and achieved excellent results: in 1950 he was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR, he became the USSR champion in hockey four times.
In 1953, after the death of I.V. Stalin, the Air Force sports society was disbanded, and Viktor Tikhonov, having already been demobilized from the army, was forced to join the Dynamo team of masters of the Moscow City Council, where he played until 1962. During this period, he was captain of the second USSR national team. He was considered in those years one of the best positional defenders. As a hockey player, Victor was distinguished by good positional sense, excellent command of power techniques, the ability to secure a partner, and clearly interact with the goalkeeper. At the same time, Viktor Tikhonov studied at the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture (now the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture). He graduated from it in 1962, at the same time he ended his sports career. In total, Viktor Tikhonov played 296 matches in the USSR championships, scoring 35 goals, of which 239 matches, 29 goals, as part of Dynamo. He is a four-time champion of the USSR, four times became the second prize-winner (1959, 1960, 1962, 1963) and four times the third prize-winner of the national championships (1955-1958). He was the winner of the USSR Cup in 1952, a finalist in the USSR Cup (1951, 1955, 1956), champion of the Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR (1958).
It was then that A.I. Chernyshev, the first coach of the USSR national team and coach of Dynamo (Moscow) in hockey, invited him to be his assistant. In 1962, Viktor Tikhonov began his coaching career, working at Dynamo (Moscow) as a second coach, assisting A.I. Chernyshev. And in 1968 he went to work independently, becoming the senior coach of the Riga hockey team of the second league “Dynamo”. In five years, he led the team to the major leagues. In 1976, already being a major league team, they won the international Polar Cup tournament, and in 1977 they took fourth place in the USSR Championship. Riga forward H.G. Balderis was recognized as the best hockey player in the Soviet Union. The team lacked strong players, as well as opportunities to strengthen it with invited hockey players. The way out of the situation had to be due to Viktor Tikhonov’s talent as a coach, which was already obvious even then, which significantly increased the potential of the Riga residents. He cultivated his playing style in the team, instilled strict gaming discipline, and taught them not to be afraid of authority. It was with his light hand that the four-line game, which had not previously been used anywhere in the world, appeared in hockey at that time. The players began to spend 50 seconds on the ice instead of the usual one and a half to two minutes, so they played more dynamically. During training, they carefully, to the point of automatism, practiced, like clever chess studies, the most diverse solutions to tactical problems that actually arose on the court. The achievements of the innovative coach did not go unnoticed: in 1974–1977, he was also entrusted with the management of the second national team of the USSR.
In 1977 V.V. Tikhonov was appointed head coach of the CSKA hockey club, the most titled in the USSR. He refused the offer to lead the army team twice, until the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yu.V. Andropov did not convince him to lead it. Since then, he considers Andropov the person who determined his entire subsequent fate. In his new place, Tikhonov retained the fundamental principles of the team’s training and did not radically change the nature of the educational and training process, although the principles of its preparation and game strategy certainly underwent changes. When V.V. Tikhonov, the head of CSKA, the team in 1978–1989 remained the permanent champion of the country, won the European Cup 14 times, as well as the Canada Cup and the Star Cup. His students, CSKA players V.A. Fetisov, A.V. Kasatonov, S.M. Makarov, I.N. Larionov, V.E. Krutov, S.V. Fedorov, A.G. Mogilny, V.V. Kamensky, A.V. Khomutov, V.A. Bykov, V.N. Konstantinov, P.V. Bure, became world famous hockey players.
Working at CSKA, V.V. Tikhonov led the USSR national team in parallel until 1992. The list of his achievements as head coach of the national hockey team of the Soviet Union is also more than impressive. During this period, she won everything that could be won, more than once. The team became the champion of the Winter Olympic Games three times: in 1984 (XIV Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia), in 1988 (XV Olympic Games, Calgary, Canada) and under the CIS flag in 1992 (XVI Olympic Games, Albertville, France), in 1980 at the XIII Olympic Games (Lake Placid, USA) she was a silver medalist. She won the world championships eight times (1978–1982, 1986, 1989 and 1990), was second in 1987, and third in 1985 and 1991. In 1978/1991 the team won the European champion title.
The fate of a coach is subject not only to objective assessments of his performance and qualifications, but also to the vagaries of the tournament table. In 1993–1994 V.V. Tikhonov was the head coach of the Russian Olympic team. At the XVII Winter Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer (Norway), she was left without Olympic medals for the first time, after which Viktor Vasilyevich was forced to resign from this post, remaining the head coach of CSKA. There was a dramatic outflow of the country's most talented hockey players to foreign clubs, the largest of which came from coach Tikhonov's team. And each time we had to assemble new squads, relying on a reserve of hockey players, not least from the CSKA hockey school. Then, due to different visions of the prospects for hockey in the new Russia, there was a dramatic split in the army hockey club: in 1996, the CSKA Hockey Club LLC and the CSKA Professional Hockey Club CJSC emerged from its ruins. Among the founders of the LLC were CSKA coach V.V. Tikhonov, Russian Joint-Stock Trade Bank and the Mikrodin company. 25 percent of the shares of CJSC PHC CSKA belonged to the state represented by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 75 percent to the Interros holding. Concept by V.V. Tikhonova’s goal was to improve the situation as a whole and build a harmonious hockey pyramid. She ultimately prevailed. In 2002, a consensus was found and the clubs merged. In June 2003, V.V. Tikhonov again became the head coach of the Russian national team, preparing for the World Cup in the Czech Republic and for the 2004 World Cup games. After an unsuccessful performance, he leaves this post forever, and on March 31, 2004, he also leaves the post of head coach of CSKA. Tikhonov becomes a cult figure of the united PKH CSKA, its president, who has considerable influence on the club’s policy.
Hard work, boundless devotion to hockey, an amazing gift for preparing and tuning players to solve serious problems turned V.V. Tikhonov into one of the most respected experts in world hockey. A man of strict discipline towards himself, he demanded its strict observance also from hockey players. There was even such a term as Tikhonov’s maximalism, which consists of a hockey player’s manic skill and readiness to play and train with full effort in every match and in every tournament, but not at all in a manic passion to win all matches at any cost. V.V. Tikhonov is constantly searching. He was one of the first to understand that in modern hockey, with its greater dynamism and significantly increased loads, one cannot rely only on the talent and intuition of a coach. We must listen to science and rely on its recommendations in coaching. On the initiative of V.V. Tikhonov, video recorders appeared in hockey teams, allowing one to visually analyze the progress of games and see the degree of load on each player. The purely human traits of a great coach, distinguished by great friendliness and sociability, and the ability to make friends, also inspire great respect. He knew how to admit his mistakes, if he was really wrong, and never blamed his own mistakes on others. I always tried to find a common language with the stars, and did not consider it inconvenient to apologize to the player if I was wrong.
Having completed his active coaching career, V.V. Tikhonov is devoting all his strength to returning Russian hockey to its former glory. He considers it necessary to carry out a radical restructuring of the country’s entire hockey industry and raise children’s and youth hockey to a higher level. President of Russia V.V. Putin instructed V.V. Tikhonov to prepare a program for the development of domestic hockey for many years to come. Viktor Vasilyevich’s colossal experience continues to be in demand among Russian coaches and hockey players. Mentors of the country's national and youth teams turn to him for help. The famous hockey player, head coach of the Russian national hockey team V.A. Bykov said about his former mentor: “There were other coaches in my life whose methods I tried to analyze. But I learned my attitude towards work from Viktor Vasilyevich. It is important to be able to be demanding of yourself and of what you do. Only then do you have the right to demand the same attitude from others.”
Retired Colonel V.V. Tikhonov is an Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation (1993). For outstanding achievements in the development of Soviet and Russian hockey, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (1996), Lenin (1983), Order of Honor (2000), October Revolution (1988), Red Banner of Labor (1978), Friendship of Peoples (1981). He was also awarded the medals “For Military Valor”, 1st degree (2000), “For Labor Distinction” (1999), and the medal named after the first cosmonaut in history, Yu.A. Gagarin of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation (2000), gold medal of the International Hockey Federation (2001). V.V. Tikhonov is also a holder of the Order of Olympic Glory of the International Olympic Committee. His name is included in the chronicle of hockey, stored in the Museum of Olympic Glory (Lausanne, Switzerland). Books are written about the great coach. Among them is “Viktor Tikhonov” (Spassky O.D.M.: Terra-Sport, Olympia Press, 2002); “The Dominant of Viktor Tikhonov” (Reizer Leonid Yuryevich. M.: Legal Book, 2002); “Coaches turn gray early: A. Tarasov, A. Chernyshev, D. Boginov, N. Epshtein, V. Tikhonov” (compiled by L.V. Rossoshik. M.: Terra-Sport, 2001). And V.V. himself Tikhonov shared his memories and experiences in the book “Hockey: Hopes, Disappointments, Dreams.” It was written in 1985 and was published in different years by different publishers.
Viktor Tikhonov was born on June 4, 1930 in Moscow. As a child, I often played hockey with yard teams. Already as a teenager he began his working career. In 1942 he worked as a mechanic in a bus depot, and after graduating from secondary school he entered a trade apprenticeship school.
In 1948, Tikhonov was drafted into the army, and it was in the ranks of the armed forces that he first took part in professional hockey competitions. First, Victor was enrolled in the hockey team of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District and played for it for four full seasons, becoming the national champion three times during this time. On the ice, the young hockey player played in different positions, but eventually established himself as a defenseman.
Already in 1950, Viktor Vasilyevich was awarded the title of Master of Sports, and three years later he became a player in the Moscow Dynamo hockey club, which at that time was considered a symbol of Soviet hockey. In total, he played 296 games in the USSR hockey championships and scored 35 goals.
After finishing his professional hockey career in 1962, the athlete switched to coaching: first he was a sports instructor for the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, and then an assistant head coach at the Moscow hockey club Dynamo. The first independent work in Tikhonov’s coaching career was in 1968 in the Riga club Dynamo, with which he achieved many victories, bringing the team from the status of the second league of the USSR to the level of the top division.
And it was in the Baltics that the work of a talented coach was noticed by the main hockey fan of those years, Leonid Brezhnev, after which the “successful” Viktor Vasilyevich was offered, and even recommended, to move to Moscow to lead CSKA and the national ice hockey team. To which the coach agreed in 1977.
Despite the fact that Tikhonov is known for his strict discipline and “tyrannical” coaching style in working with athletes, it was under the leadership of Viktor Vasilyevich that CSKA won the national championships for twelve years, won the European Champions Cup fourteen times and the USSR Cup twice.
Then, at the end of the 1970s, during the change of generations in domestic hockey, everyone remembered the legendary trio of Kharlamov, Mikhailov, Petrov, no one believed that it was possible to play better. But Tikhonov was able and even more, not just trained a replacement, but created a strike five: Larionov, Kasatonov, Krutov, Makarov, Fetisov, which declared itself immediately.
In 1981, the USSR national team won the Canada Cup, when the founders of hockey lost in their homeland with a crushing score of 8:1, and our team was welcomed home as national heroes. The names of army hockey players: Igor Larionov, Alexei Kasatonov, Vladimir Krutov, Sergei Makarov and Vyacheslav Fetisov became known throughout the world.
In general, the Soviet team in world hockey of those years was considered a formidable force; foreign journalists called it the “Red Machine”. After all, the hockey players of the national team with Tikhonov became world champions eight times, won the European Championships, the Canada Cup and the Challenge Cup and won three gold medals at the Olympic Games in a row: in 1984, 1988 and 1992.
Although Viktor Vasilyevich himself considered the victory at the Games in Albertville in 1992 the most valuable, because he knew how difficult it was to win then, when no one believed in the victory of our team. After all, there was no longer a USSR national team, and there was no Russian national team yet, but the famous coach managed to bring a team of unknown CIS countries onto the ice and led it to victory.
But in 1994, the Russian national team, led by Tikhonov, was left without Olympic medals, after which he left the post of head coach of the team, but remained to coach CSKA hockey players. Viktor Vasilyevich again headed the Russian national hockey team in the summer of 2003, after the team had changed several coaches who unsuccessfully tried to lead it out of the crisis. But after an unsuccessful performance at the 2004 World Championships, Tikhonov left this post.
Honored Trainer of the USSR and Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation, three-time Olympic champion, eight-time world champion and 13-time champion of the USSR, Viktor Tikhonov is the owner of dozens of different regalia and awards. His name is included in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame and the Olympic Glory Museum.
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov died on November 24, 2014 at the age of 85 after a long illness in Moscow. He was buried with military honors on November 27 in the Central Alley of the second section of the Vagankovsky cemetery.
Sports Achievements of Viktor Tikhonov
As a player:
Champion of the USSR 1951-1954 (three times with the Air Force and one with Dynamo Moscow)
Second place winner 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963
Third prize winner 1955-1958
Winner of the 1952 USSR Cup
As a coach:
Olympic champion, 1984, 1988, 1992
Winner of silver medals at the Olympic Games, 1980
World champion, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990
USSR Champion, 1978-89
Winner of the USSR Cup, 1979 and 1988
13-time European Cup winner, 1978-90
Challenge Cup Winner 1979
Winner of the Canada Cup 1981
Victor Tikhonov's awards
Order of Lenin (January 14, 1983) - for high sporting achievements at the World and European Championships
Order of the October Revolution (June 15, 1988) - for high sporting achievements at the XV Winter Olympic Games
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (July 7, 1978) - for high sporting achievements at the 1978 World and European Hockey Championships
Order of Friendship of Peoples (May 22, 1981) - for his great contribution to the development of Soviet hockey and successful performance at the 1981 World and European Hockey Championships
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (December 20, 1996) - for services to the state and outstanding contribution to the development of domestic hockey
Medal "For Military Merit"
Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation (April 28, 1993) - for services to the development of physical culture and sports and many years of work in the Central Sports Club of the Army
one of the first in the country to be awarded the medal “For Military Valor”, 1st degree, established by the Minister of Defense of Russia
Knight of the Olympic Order
Certificate of Honor from the Government of the Russian Federation (June 4, 2010) - for great contribution to the development of domestic sports
Family of Viktor Tikhonov
Father Tikhonov Vasily Prokhorovich (1906-1942) - an employee of a secret military plant, a militia during the Great Patriotic War, died near Malgobek in 1942. Victor and his brother were raised by one mother, Anna Ivanovna (1909-1984), who worked in a blacksmith shop .
Wife - Tatyana Vasilievna (b. 1933), lawyer by training.
Son - Vasily (1958-2013) - hockey coach, worked in Finland, lived in Russia, until the end of the 2010-2011 season he worked as a senior coach at HC Avangard, Omsk Region. Tragically died in an accident.
Grandson - Victor (b. 1988) (full namesake of his grandfather) - hockey player, forward of the SKA club (St. Petersburg). World champion 2014 as part of the Russian national team and the top scorer of the tournament.
Granddaughter - Tikhonova Tatyana Vasilievna (b. 1984).
Great-grandchildren - Lev, Sofia-Victoria.
Who he is is known in any country that at least somehow associates itself with hockey. They know, respect and love. Because it’s simply impossible not to love such professionals and masters of their craft. Do you agree? Now let's go in order.
Our next champion mentor was born and raised in Moscow. He came out, like many of his predecessors, from backyard sports. Since childhood, the guy fell in love with a healthy lifestyle, competition and the battle for leadership.
Already at the age of 12, the young man began working as a mechanic in a bus depot, after which he graduated from school and in 1948 was drafted into the armed forces. Tikhonov combined his service with performances in the MVO Air Force team, where he was invited Vsevolod Bobrov, who acted as a player-coach. Time spent on the ice side by side with such aces as Babich, Shuvalov And Mkrtchyan, clearly benefited Tikhonov.
From 1949 to 1953, our hero played for the “pilots” as a defender, and then continued his career at Dynamo Moscow. He became the USSR champion three times as a player. Quite quickly, Viktor Tikhonov received the title of Master of Sports, scoring 35 goals in 296 matches in the Union Championship.
Meanwhile, coaching prospects sparkled on the horizon, as the hockey player had excellent human qualities. He was loved by the team and trusted very much. Even then it became clear that this master was quite capable of leading himself, having taken the post of helmsman of one of the clubs.
Beginning in 1962, Tikhonov began working on the coaching staff of Dynamo Moscow, acting as an assistant, but he then headed the other Dynamo, Riga, personally. Together with the Baltic team, the newly minted mentor made it out of the first league and reached fourth place in the USSR Championship (1977).
The promising coach began to be actively matched with CSKA. After talking with the country's top leadership, who oversaw the army club, Viktor Vasilyevich agrees to work in the top team of the union. Well, a little earlier, Tikhonov led the USSR national team.
CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS WITH ARMY MEMBERS AND SUCCESS WITH THE TEAM
For any fan of hockey CSKA, Viktor Tikhonov is a sacred figure. Same as great Anatoly Tarasov, who churned out one title after another with his charges.
It's no joke, but the army club, led by Tikhonov, became the national champion 14 (!) times, completely dominating their opponents on the ice rink. The same number of victories were won in the European Cup. We won’t forget the two USSR Cups we won either.
Under the strict supervision of the master, personalities such as Vyacheslav Bykov, Sergey Makarov, Valery Kamensky, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Sergey Fedorov, Alexander Mogilny, Pavel Bure.
True, warm relations were not maintained with everyone. As we remember, many Soviet hockey players went overseas to try their hand at the NHL and earn good money. But they didn’t always do it beautifully.
- Oh this Mogilny..., Tikhonov recalled in one of his interviews. - They pulled him out of Khabarovsk, there was no one there. Immediately from the youth team he became a world champion and joined the main team of CSKA. I wanted money. So he fled to America. I wasn’t the only one who was upset by his behavior when he talked about the alleged assault. The whole team was opposed to Mogilny. Whatever words were spoken. And when they left for the States - that’s it, friends and comrades again.
But in sports, as you know, anything can happen. Including conflict situations, where would we be without them?
It is interesting that at CSKA Tikhonov retained the fundamental principles of the team’s training and did not radically change the nature of the educational and training process, although the principles of training and game strategy themselves certainly underwent certain changes. It was endless work, the will to win and the desire to win that helped Viktor Vasilyevich and his players confirm the title of the flagship of domestic hockey. Well, and the wisdom of the head coach himself, of course. After all, Tikhonov always preached exceptionally smart hockey.
While working at CSKA, Tikhonov simultaneously headed (until 1992) the USSR national team. The list of his achievements as head coach of the national hockey team of the Soviet Union is no less impressive. During this period, the team won everything that could be won, several times. The team won the title of champion of the Winter Olympic Games three times: in 1984 (XIV Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia), in 1988 (XV Olympic Games, Calgary, Canada) and under the CIS flag in 1992 (XVI Olympic Games, Albertville, France) , in 1980 at the XIII Olympic Games (Lake Placid, USA) she was a silver medalist. She won the world championships eight times (1978–1983, 1986, 1989 and 1990), was second in 1987, and third in 1985 and 1991. In 1978/1991 the team won the European champion title.
And the coach still treats that famous defeat by the Americans in Lake Placid philosophically. " It's a shame that the guys didn't listen to me. After shortly before the Games we defeated the US team 10:3, the hockey players relaxed. Although every day he repeated: “Forget it. Our main competitors at the Olympics are not the Czechs, but the Americans.” But I couldn’t reach the players. Everyone was sure that we would easily deal with them again. They paid for it. And the Americans also ran on doping, I have no doubt about that. They were injected with something. However, every defeat teaches. If you draw conclusions", said Viktor Vasilyevich.
PRIDE
Viktor Tikhonov is very proud of his family. His son - Vasily Tikhonov– is also a hockey coach. He worked in Finland, in the USA, in the structure of the Omsk Avangard.
Grandson Victor was selected by the NHL team Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of the 2008 draft. Constantly listening to the advice of the legendary grandfather, Tikhonov Jr. simply cannot help but progress.
Our hero also has a granddaughter, Tatyana. Namesake of his wife, Tatyana Vasilievna.
CONFESSION
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov is the winner of many awards, including state ones. His recognition in the public eye is enormous.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (December 20, 1996) - for services to the state and outstanding contribution to the development of domestic hockey.
Order of Honor (June 3, 2000) - for his great contribution to the development of domestic hockey.
Order of Friendship (June 2010) - for his great contribution to the development of domestic sports.
Order of Lenin (1983).
Order of the October Revolution (1988).
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1978).
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981).
Medal "For Labor Distinction" (1999).
One of the first in the country to be awarded the medal “For Military Valor”, 1st degree, established by the Minister of Defense of Russia.
Knight of the Olympic Order.
In 1998 he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
The name of Viktor Tikhonov is included in the Museum of Olympic Glory (in Lausanne).
In connection with Tikhonov’s 70th birthday, the Russian Cosmonautics Federation awarded him a medal named after the first cosmonaut in history, Yuri Gagarin.
PLAYER AND COACH
Tikhonov achieved great success both as a player and as a coach. Judge for yourself:
As a player:
Champion of the USSR 1951-1954 (three times with the Air Force and one with Dynamo Moscow).
Second prize winner in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963.
Third prize winner 1955-1958.
Winner of the 1952 USSR Cup.
As a coach:
Olympic champion, 1984, 1988, 1992.
Winner of silver medals at the Olympic Games, 1980.
World champion, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990.
USSR champion, 1977-89.
Winner of the USSR Cup, 1979 and 1988.
4-time winner of the European Cup.
Winner of the Challenge Cup 1979.
Winner of the Canada Cup 1981.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Viktor Vasilyevich is still full of strength and energy. He continues to work for the benefit of the hockey life of our country, constantly taking part in various conferences and seminars. Regularly visits the FHR executive committees.
Tikhonov tries not to miss matches of his native hockey team CSKA. It’s just that the army doesn’t often make him happy these days... But the youth made him happy. The Red Army won the Kharlamov Cup last season. And more and more young, promising guys are coming out of the army school.
Isn’t this a joy for a person who has personally trained dozens of such talents?
