Boris Apukhtin

Boris Apukhtin
Personal information
Full name Boris Trifonovich Apukhtin
Date of birth (1906-02-19)February 19, 1906
Place of birth Kraskovo, Russian Empire
Date of death February 27, 1975(1975-02-27) (aged 69)
Place of death Moscow, Soviet Union
Height 1,78
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
1914-1916 Kraskovo
1916-1918 ZKS Moscow
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919-1924 VTOPAS Moscow
1925-1927 MOGES Moscow
1928-1933 Serp i Molot Moscow
1934-1941 GCOLIFK Moscow
Teams managed
1936 Proletarskaya Pobeda Moscow
1946 Dynamo Kyiv
1948 Lokomotiv Moscow
1949 Dynamo Yerevan
1950 Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo
1948-1952 Albania (consultant)
1968 Neftyanik Fergana (director)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 May 2012.

† Appearances (goals)

Boris Trifonovich Apukhtin (Russian: Борис Трифонович Апухтин, 19 February 1906 – 4 March 1975) was a Russian footballer and coach.

In 1916 he began his playing career at the Moscow team ZKS Moscow (Zamoskvorietsky Club of Sport).[1] In 1919, he was a footballer for VTOPAS Moscow (All-Russian Society of Educational and Industrial Associations). He then he performed in clubs such as MOGES Moscow and FC Serp i Molot Moscow. In 1934 he moved to GCOLIFK football team.[1] In 1941, upon the commencement of the Great Patriotic War he was forced to end his playing career. He defended the team colors of Moscow and the Russian Central Council of Trade Unions (VTSPS) (1931-1933).

In 1936 he coached the club Proletarskaya Pobeda Moscow. In June 1946 he was appointed head coach of Dynamo Kiev, with whom he worked until the end of the year. In the first half of 1948 he led Lokomotiv Moscow and in the second half of 1949, Dinamo Yerevan.[1] In 1950 he coached the club Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo. From August until the end of 1968 he worked as the Director of Neftyanik Fergana. In the meantime, he was a consulting coach of the Albania national football team in 1948-1952.[2] In the years 1943-1968 he worked intermittently as a senior manager in the Department of Sport Football Committee of the USSR. He was the author of The Technique of Football (1956, 1958), Tactical Preparation of Players (1961) etc. He died on February 27, 1975 in Moscow at the age of 69.

Apukhtin was awarded the title Master of Sports of the USSR in 1948 and the title of Merited Sports Coach of the USSR in 1957.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Апухтин Борис Трифонович (1906-1975) (in Russian). Sport-necropol. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  2. Апухтин Борис Трифонович (СССР) (in Russian). Яндекс.Словари:Футбол: игроки, тренеры, судьи. Retrieved 7 May 2012.

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