Yuri Fedorov (born July 8, 1949) is a
Russian retired
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
defenceman
Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the la ...
. He played in the
Soviet Hockey League for
CSKA Moscow and Torpedo (Gorky) which is now known as
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. He also played in the
Japan Ice Hockey League for
Oji Seishi. He was inducted into the
Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978.
External links
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Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1949 births
HC CSKA Moscow players
Living people
Oji Eagles players
Sportspeople from Ulyanovsk
Russian ice hockey coaches
Soviet ice hockey defencemen
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod players
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