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The Olympic champion of 1976 in the Russian national hockey team Boris Alexandrov has been introduced into the Hall of Fame. The son of Boris Aleksandrov, who tragically died in 2002, received a memorial sign from representatives of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The ceremony took place in Bratislava, where the world hockey championship ended the day before, TASS reports.
The name of Boris Alexandrov is inscribed in gold letters in the history of the Soviet and Kazakh hockey.
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The striker achieved the peak of his career in the 1970s, when he became the Olympic champion, Canadian Cup winner and three-time Soviet champion as the player of the Moscow-based CSKA.
Coaching activity of Alexandrov is associated with his native town, Ust-Kamenogorsk. After completing his career, he headed the local Torpedo hockey club and the national team of Kazakhstan, which, under Aleksandrov, entered the strongest division of the world hockey. In 1998, Alexandrov returned to the Olympic ice as a coach - at the Games the team of Kazakhstan achieved the most significant success in its history, entering the top eight teams of the Olympic tournament.
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