Boris Kulagin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Boris Kulagin

Soviet association football player and ice hockey player (1924-1988)

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1924

Place of Birth: Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1988

Profession: association football manager, association football player, ice hockey player

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Boris Kulagin

  • Boris Pavlovich Kulagin (Russian: ????? ???????? ???????; December 31, 1924 – January 25, 1988) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach.
  • Kulagin was one of the first players in the Soviet Union to play organized ice hockey in the 1940s.
  • Prior to this time Kulagin played bandy or "Russian hockey".
  • Kulagin would later coach teams in the Soviet Union, eventually becoming national team coach in the 1970s. Kulagin was born in Barnaul in the Siberia district of the Soviet Union.
  • In 1930, along with his family, Kulagin moved to Moscow, where his father was stationed in the military.
  • In 1936, Kulagin was enrolled in hockey lessons, joining the hockey (bandy) division of the Moscow Dynamo sports society.
  • Kulagin continued to play ball hockey until the 1940s, when the Soviet Union Central Committee ordered the conversion of organized play into ice hockey, then considered "Canadian hockey".
  • Kulagin disliked the transition from bandy but was bound to the change to remain in the profession.
  • After a few seasons of Soviet ice hockey playing Canadian rules, Kulagin suffered a career-ending leg injury and transitioned into coaching.
  • During the 1950s, Kulagin ran sports programs in Orenburg.
  • Kulagin was transferred to Moscow in the 1960s and Kulagin became assistant coach to Anatoli Tarasov at HC CSKA Moscow, the Central Red Army team.
  • Tarasov was also the national team coach, and Kulagin became assistant on the national team.
  • After Tarasov was removed from the national team head coach position, Kulagin was retained as assistant coach to head coach Vsevolod Bobrov.
  • Kulagin was assistant coach on the first "super series" between the Soviet national team and the NHL-based Team Canada in 1972, the "Summit Series".
  • During the season, Kulagin was head coach of the Soviet Wings.
  • After his team won the Soviet league championship in 1974, Kulagin was promoted to national team coach to replace Bobrov.
  • Kulagin would be Soviet head coach in the second super series, the "1974 Summit Series" against a WHA-based Team Canada.
  • Unlike 1972, the Soviets won the series and it would be the start of a decade of supremacy of ice hockey by the Soviet national team.
  • Kulagin remained national team coach until the final period of the 1977 World Ice Hockey Championships.
  • With Sweden in the lead 2–1 after two periods of play, and the Soviet Union needing a win to take the championship, Kulagin was replaced as head coach by assistant coach Konstantin Loktev by the head of the Soviet delegation.
  • Kulagin went on to coach a team in Denmark.
  • Kulagin returned to the Soviet Union in 1980 and coached Moscow Spartak until his death in 1988.

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