Viktor Tikhonov

Viktor Tikhonov

 Viktor Tikhonov

 Viktor Tikhonov

 Viktor Tikhonov

Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov (born June 4, 1930) is a Russian former ice hockey player and coach. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the most dominant team in the world. He is in the IIHF Hall of Fame (builder, 1998). Tikhonov played as a defenceman with the VVS (Team of the Soviet Air Forces) and Dynamo Moscow. He scored 35 goals in 296 games in the Soviet elite hockey league from 1949 to 1963.