Aleksandr Komarov

Alexander Georgijewitsch Komarov (Russian Александр Георгиевич Комаров; born July 25, 1923 in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, † November 22, 2013 in Samara ) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach.

Career

As a player

Komarov began his career in the season 1948/49, the SKA Khabarovsk and was shown due to the benefits from the sports club of the Red Army, ZDSA Moscow, obliged. With ZDSA or CSKA he was in 1950, 1955, 1956 and 1958, Soviet champion and 1952, 1953 and 1954 runner-up. He also won the Soviet Hockey Cup with his team in 1954, 1955 and 1956. In 1958 he moved within the Klass A Skwo to Leningrad, where he was a year later ended his career.

In total he scored to end of his career 101 goals in 170 games the Klass A.

Internationally

In 1954 he was appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team and played on 29 January 1954, the first official international match of the USSR against Finland. In the Hockey World Cup in 1954, he won the Sbornaja the gold medal, at the tournament a year later the silver medal. In 1954 he was awarded the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

For the national team, he scored a total of 11 goals in 30 internationals. On December 29, 1956 he played his last international match.

As a coach

Between 1958 and 1962 he was head coach of SKA Leningrad. In 1963 he became coach of SKA Kuibyshev and held this position until 1968. In the 1973/74 season he returned once as a coach at the same club.

Awards and achievements