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Nikolai Puchkov

1930 - 2005

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Nikolai Georgiyevich Puchkov (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Пучков, 30 January 1930 – 8 August 2005) was a Russian ice hockey goaltender. He was part of the Soviet teams that won two Olympic and seven world championship medals between 1954 and 1960, including three gold medals. He was named the best goaltender of the 1959 World Championships and won the European title in 1954–56 and 1958–60. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Puchkov has received more than 14,671 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Puchkov is the 1,863rd most popular athlete (down from 1,285th in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,101st in 2019) and the 96th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 1,863 out of 6,025Before him are Tom Price, Christine Stückelberger, Friedrich Waller, Niels Fredborg, Günther Haase, and Tommy Kono. After him are Guillermo Douglas, Allen Johnson, Shaun White, Yevgeny Maskinskov, Gordon George Avery, and Johannes Terwogt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 555Before him are Ardalion Ignatyev, Leila Seth, Geeta Dutt, Suzanne Morrow Francis, Gordon Pinsent, and Tommy Kono. After him are Yevgeny Maskinskov, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank Perry, Satya Vrat Shastri, Gun Röring, and Yngve Brodd. Among people deceased in 2005, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 328Before him are Robert Creeley, Kalevi Hämäläinen, Harold J. Stone, George Szekeres, Richard Doll, and Adrian Biddle. After him are Georges Dransart, Peter Jennings, Henry Proctor, P. Bhanumathi, Art Cross, and Chloe Jones.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 2,426 out of 3,761Before him are Boris Gurevich (1931), Yelizaveta Bagryantseva (1929), Viktor Kozin (1953), Vasily Tsibliyev (1954), Filipp Yankovsky (1968), and Andrei Okounkov (1969). After him are Ekaterina Kalinchuk (1922), Ivan Artobolevsky (1905), Viktor Markin (1957), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925), Aleksandr Lenyov (1944), and Svetlana Masterkova (1968).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Nikolai Puchkov ranks 96Before him are Antonina Seredina (1929), Aleksey Spiridonov (1951), Yury Zaitsev (1951), Tatyana Lebedeva (1976), Ardalion Ignatyev (1930), and Yelizaveta Bagryantseva (1929). After him are Viktor Markin (1957), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925), Svetlana Masterkova (1968), Tatyana Talysheva (1937), Ivan Kizimov (1928), and Yelena Romanova (1963).