Impressions

"Russian Hall of Fame": USSR Merited Sports Masters,
All USSR ZMS (1948-2000)

Source: Soviet Sport Daily (Russia, 2001)
   The Merited Sports Master (Zasluzhenny Master Sporta or ZMS) is the top award received by outstanding sports personalities in Russia. By analogy with the biggest honor in professional hockey in Canada, it is often called the "Russian Hall of Fame".

Bobrov
Bobrov
Bobrov


Kuzkin
Ragulin
Starshinov

VikulovZinger

MishakovZimin
MaltsevMikhailov

PaladievPetrov
MishakovKharlamov
LutchenkoYakushev

TretiakShadrin
BlinovTsygankov

AnisinVasiliev
GusevLiapkin

Martyniuk

LebedevShatalov
MishakovSidelnikov

Year

     Players

1948

Boris Afanasyev,
Vsevolod Bobrov*
Arkady Chernyshev

1949

Anatoly Tarasov

1951

Grigory Mkrtychan

1952

Pavel Korotkov

1953

Evgeny Babich
Pavel Zhiburtovich
Viktor Shuvalov

1954

Mikhail Bychkov
Boris Zapryagaev
Aleksey Guryshev
Alexander Komarov
Yury Krylov
Valentin Kuzin
Alfred Kuchevsky
Boris Petelin
Nikolay Puchkov
Alexander Uvarov
Dmitry Ukolov
Nikolay Khlystov

1956

Yury Pantjukhov
Genrikh Sidorenkov
Nikolay Sologubov
Ivan Tregubov

1963

Veniamin Alexandrov
Alexander Almetov
Yury Volkov
Vitaly Davydov
Eduard Ivanov
Viktor Konovalenko
Viktor Kuzkin*
Boris Mayorov
Evgeny Mayorov
Stanislav Petukhov
Alexander Ragulin*
Viacheslav Starshinov*
Vladimir Yurzinov
Viktor Yakushev

1964

Leonid Volkov
Boris Zaitsev
Konstantin Loktev
Anatoly Firsov

1965

Vladimir Brezhnev
Anatoly Ionov

1966

Oleg Zaitsev

1967

Vladimir Vikulov*
Viktor Zinger*
Valery Nikitin
Viktor Polupanov

1968

Viktor Blinov
Yevgeny Zimin*
Yevgeny Mishakov*
Yury Moiseev
Igor Romishevsky

1969

Aleksander Maltsev *
Boris Mikhailov *
Yevgeny Paladiev*
Vladimir Petrov *
Valery Kharlamov *
Viktor Tsyplakov

1970

Vladimir Lutchenko*
Yury Morozov
Alexander Yakushev*

1971

Vladislav Tretiak*
Vladimir Shadrin*

1972

Yury Blinov*
Gennady Tsygankov*

1973

Viacheslav Anisin*
Valery Vasiliev *
Alexander Gusev*
Yury Liapkin*
Alexander Martyniuk*

1974

Igor Dmitriev
Yury Lebedev *
Yury Shatalov*

1975

Sergey Kapustin
Viktor Shalimov

1976

Alexander Sidelnikov*

1978

Helmut Balderis
Zinehtula Bilialetdinov
Alexander Golikov
Vladimir Golikov
Viktor Zhluktov
Alexander Pashkov
Vasily Pervukhin
Yury Fedorov
Viacheslav Fetisov

1979

Sergey Babinov
Sergey Makarov
Vladimir Myshkin

1981

Nikolay Drozdetsky
Aleksey Kasatonov
Vladimir Krutov
Nikolay Makarov
Alexander Skvortsov
Sergey Shepelev

1982

Irek Gimaev
Alexander Kozhevnikov
Igor Larionov
Viktor Tiumenev
Andrey Khomutov

1983

Viacheslav Bykov
Mikhail Vasiliev
Vladimir Zubkov
Sergey Starikov

1984

Alexander Gerasimov
Vladimir Kovin
Igor Stelnov

1986

Mikhail Varnakov
Sergey Mylnikov

1988

Igor Kravchuk
Aleksey Gusarov
Ilia Bjakin
Valery Kamensky
Sergey Svetlov
Anatoly Semenov
Sergeya Yashin
Andrey Lomakin
Alexander Mogilny
Alexander Chernykh

1989

Vladimir Konstantinov
Valery Shiryaev

1990

Sergey Nemchinov
Yevgeny Davydov
Pavel Bure
Vladimir Malakhov
Alexander Semak

1991

Viktor Pryazhnikovb
Evgeny Groshev
Yury Tsitsinov
Yury Paramoshkin

1992

Andrey Trefilov
Mikhail Shtalenkov
Dmitry Mironov
Aleksey Zhitnik
Sergey Zubov
Darius Kasparaitis
Dmitry Yushkevich
Sergey Bautin
Aleksey Zhamnov
Viacheslav Butsaev
Yury Khmylev
Vitaly Prokhorov
Andrey Kovalenko
Igor Boldin
Nikolay Borshchevsky
Aleksey Kovalev
Sergey Petrenko

1993

Andrey Zuev
Maksim Mikhailovsky
Valery Karpov
German Titov
Jan Kaminsky
Sergey Shendelev
Andrey Nikolishin
Aleksey Yashin
Sergey Sorokin
Konstantin Astrakhantsev
Sergey Pushkov
Alexander Smirnov
Alexander Karpovtsev
Igor Varitsky
Dmitry Frolov
Andrey Sapozhnikov

1995

Valery Fomenkov

1998

Boris Mironov
Sergey Gonchar
Sergey Krivokrasov
Valery Bure
Aleksey Morozov
Sergey Fedorov
Valery Zelepukin
Oleg Shetsov

 

 
Notes:
* Participated in the 1972 USSR-Canada Summit