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Nikolay Latyshev

1913 - 1999

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Nikolay Gavrilovich Latyshev (Russian: Николай Гаврилович Латышев; born November 22, 1913 – died February 18, 1999) was the referee in the 1962 FIFA World Cup final staged in Santiago between Brazil and Czechoslovakia. He was the first FIFA referee from the Soviet Union (since 1952), as well as the first Soviet to be appointed to officiate in a World Cup final. Prior to the referee career, Latyshev played for FC Elektrozavod, Stalinets, and Dynamo Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Latyshev has received more than 27,607 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nikolay Latyshev is the 30th most popular referee (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,884th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,781st in 2019) and the most popular Russian Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Nikolay Latyshev ranks 30 out of 147. Before him are Gottfried Dienst, Massimo Busacca, Tom Henning Øvrebø, Daniele Orsato, Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, and Pedro Proença. After him are Frank De Bleeckere, Ľuboš Micheľ, Cüneyt Çakır, Yuichi Nishimura, Milorad Mažić, and Felix Brych.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Nikolay Latyshev ranks 271. Before him are Mira Lobe, Hans Schwartz, Franz Antel, Mikhail Solomentsev, Sverre Hansen, and Joe Kelly. After him are Anna Lee, Zezé Procópio, Qiao Guanhua, Ken Carpenter, Guillermo Haro, and William J. Casey. Among people deceased in 1999, Nikolay Latyshev ranks 208. Before him are Alain Peyrefitte, John Van Ryn, Hideo Itokawa, Robert Douglas, Owen Hart, and João Cabral de Melo Neto. After him are Josef Zeman, Celso Torrelio, Samiha Khalil, Sufia Kamal, Maigonis Valdmanis, and Charlie Byrd.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Latyshev ranks 1,884 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Perestiani (1870), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), Olga Morozova (1949), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Boris Grigoriev (1886), and Viktor Kosichkin (1938). After him are Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Valentin Muratov (1928), Matvey Kazakov (1738), Gennady Burbulis (1945), Gavriil Popov (1936), and Mikhail Gnessin (1883).

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Among REFEREES In Russia

Among referees born in Russia, Nikolay Latyshev ranks 1. After him are Sergei Karasev (1979).

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