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Nikita Simonyan

1926 - 2025

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Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan (Russian: Никита Павлович Симонян, Armenian: Նիկիտա Պողոսի Սիմոնյան; 12 October 1926 – 23 November 2025) was a Soviet and Russian football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow, where he was top scorer of all time with 160 goals. He played for the Soviet Union national team, winning the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics and reaching the quarter-finals of the 1958 FIFA World Cup. As a manager, he won the Soviet Top League with Ararat Yerevan in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Nikita Simonyan is the 1,560th most popular soccer player (down from 1,362nd in 2024), the 1,195th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,189th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nikita Simonyan ranks 1,560 out of 21,273. Before him are Yoshinori Shigematsu, Soh Chin Ann, Ciriaco Errasti, Mick Jones, Vlatko Marković, and Kembo Uba Kembo. After him are Edmundo, Enrique Fernández Viola, Braulio Musso, Željko Petrović, Romeo Benetti, and Claude Abbes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Nikita Simonyan ranks 236. Before him are Stanley Cavell, Avraham Adan, James Hillman, Bhupen Hazarika, Ri Kun-mo, and Salvador Jorge Blanco. After him are Betsy Palmer, Claudio Villa, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Ibrahim Nasir, Sadegh Khalkhali, and Alina Szapocznikow. Among people deceased in 2025, Nikita Simonyan ranks 241. Before him are Andrea de Adamich, Talgat Musabayev, Barbara Frischmuth, Sandra Harding, Jean Tiberi, and Roy Thomas Baker. After him are Braulio Musso, Ham Lin̄i, Peter Jason, Richard Norton, Jaime Rodríguez, and Susan Brownmiller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Simonyan ranks 1,195 out of 3,761. Before him are Valery Ryumin (1939), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Dmitry Lelyushenko (1901), Alexander Lodygin (1847), August von Werder (1808), and Boris Yegorov (1937). After him are Sergei Korsakoff (1854), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Nadezhda Durova (1783), Dmitry Milyutin (1816), and Vasily Mishin (1917).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Nikita Simonyan ranks 13. Before him are Oleg Salenko (1969), Slava Metreveli (1936), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), Sergei Salnikov (1925), Andrey Arshavin (1981), and Valery Voronin (1939). After him are Igor Chislenko (1939), Yevhen Rudakov (1942), Anatoly Tarasov (1918), Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968), Gavriil Kachalin (1911), and Galimzyan Khusainov (1937).

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