Legendary Soviet ice hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov died at the age of 84. Viktor Tikhonov was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the most dominant team in the world, winning world cups in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990. As coach he won Olympics gold at three straight games. Viktor Tikhonov is in the IIHF Hall of Fame. TASS recalls the legendary coach of the Soviet Union and CSKA Moscow and his victories.
Soviet ice hockey coaching legend: remembering Viktor Tikhonov
Legendary Soviet ice hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov died at the age of 84
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Soviet ice-hockey team coach Viktor Tikhonov, 1979
© Fotokhronika TASS/Vyacheslav Un Da-sin Viktor Tikhonov after Soviet team won the World cup in 1979, beating Canadians in final game
© Fotokhronika TASS/Igor Utkin/Alexand Yakovlev Soviet ice-hockey team won Olympic Games gold medals in 1984, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
© ITAR-TASS/Viktor Budan/Vyacheslav Un Da-sin 40th ice-hockey championship of the USSR. CSKA senior coach Viktor Tikhonov watching match between CSKA Moscow and Torpedo Gorky, 1985
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Zufarov/Alexander Yakovlev Viktor Tikhonov talks to Soviet ice-hockey team during training, 1986
© Fotokhronika TASS/Igor Utkin Viktor Tikhonov and CSKA team captain Vyacheslav Fetisov with the Soviet ice hockey cup, 1988
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© Fotokhronika TASS/Igor Utkin/Alexand Yakovlev Viktor Tikhonov and CSKA team captain Vyacheslav Fetisov, 1989
© Fotokhronika TASS/Igor Utkin Viktor Tikhonov watches Soviet ice-hockey team's training, 1991
© ITAR-TASS/Igor Utkin/Alexand Yakovlev Final hockey match when Russian National Team won Olympics gold in 1992, Meribel, France
© Fotokhronika TASS Chief coach of the CSKA Russian ice hockey team Viktor Tikhonov plans another match at the team's pre-season training, 2003
© ITAR-TASS/Igor Utkin Viktor Tikhonov stands at the Team USSR bench prior to the charity ice hockey match at the Moscow's Red Square, 2006
© AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets ice hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov, 2010
© AP Photo/Alexei Nikolsky, pool Viktor Tikhonov and his grandson Viktor, who won a gold medal in the 2014 IIHF World Championship with Russia and led the tournament in scoring
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel Hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov at a KHL Gagarin Cup semi-final game, 2012
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin