Mikhailov Boris

Born on October 6, 1944 in Moscow.
One of the hockey reference books says about Boris Mikhailov: “On the field he is always a fighter, unbending, persistent, not afraid of anyone or anything.”
Boris Mikhailov began playing hockey in 1956 at the Moscow Labor Reserves stadium. At the age of 18 he went to Saratov Avangard, where he spent three years. The team was weak, one of the worst in class "A". Boris stood out against the background of mediocre partners, but not enough to be noticed by the coaches of CSKA or Dynamo Moscow. The Muscovite, who played in Saratov, liked Anatoly Kostryukov, who headed the capital's Lokomotiv, one of the strongest hockey clubs in the country.
Mikhailov spent two years at Lokomotiv, and then he was drafted into the army and began playing for CSKA. He was then 23 years old. It seemed that he got into the famous team late, in which many played, as they say, from the cradle: they came to the army club hockey school before they entered school. At that time, CSKA also had players who put on the club’s uniform at a fairly young age, having come from other teams.
It soon turned out that Boris Mikhailov, who seemed to be standing uncertainly on his skates, was an unsurpassed master of playing on the spot; as it turned out, it was simply impossible to move him from this place. And soon the entire hockey world became convinced that the future two-time Olympic champion was not inferior to the most famous Canadians in courage and ability to fight with strength.
The great Bobrov, when asked to express his attitude towards the debutant of the USSR national team Boris Mikhailov, said that he first of all liked the combativeness of the newcomer. And he explained: “If Boris holds the puck, it is almost impossible to take it away from him. If he has lost it, he immediately rushes after the “offender” and often forces the opponent to give it back. His peculiar style of dribbling (with increasing acceleration), perfect precision of passing, unstoppable swiftness and determination in attack, contempt for any danger on the ice - these are the qualities that quickly bring him to the ranks of top-class forwards. And this irresistibility is transmitted to his troika, becomes its motto and its banner."
Mikhailov was lucky with his partners - each was a world-famous star - both Valery Kharlamov and Vladimir Petrov. As Bobrov noted, this trio is beautiful in itself. She turned out to be wonderful with her speed, unprecedented even in our hockey, her greatest love for the game and her ability to give herself completely to it.
Boris Mikhailov was an extremely courageous hockey player who knew how not to notice pain on the court and endure it after rough techniques from the most evil opponents.
In the national championships, he scored 428 goals (in 572 matches) - more than anyone in Soviet hockey. This result alone testifies to the highest skill of the hockey player. He has many achievements. He is an Honored Master of Sports, two-time Olympic champion, eight-time world champion, seven-time European champion, eleven-time USSR champion, four times in the chain of glorious army hockey players he made a lap of honor with the USSR Cup and nine times after winning the European Champions Cup.
Boris Mikhailov is one of the few outstanding hockey players of recent generations who, after finishing his playing career, became a coach, and a very qualified one at that. At first he helped Viktor Tikhonov at CSKA, then headed SKA St. Petersburg, where his work turned out to be extraordinary and tangible. Boris Petrovich spent two seasons on the coaching bridge of CSKA.
Despite many difficulties (this is perhaps the only club in domestic hockey that does not have its own hockey school, but rents ice for calendar meetings with rivals), the CSKA team looks good - it knows how to give a fight to today's leaders, in August it successfully held a representative tournament in Nizhny Novgorod for the GAZ prize.
For several years, Boris Mikhailov led the Russian national team. Under his leadership, she won the 1993 World Championships. This was the last victory of the Russian hockey team in the past century. After failure at the 2000 World Championships, which took place in St. Petersburg, Boris Mikhailov was again called to the helm of the Russian national team. The contract with him was signed for two years.
Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Boris Petrovich Mikhailov - Honored Trainer of Russia, awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, and the Order of Honor.
Lives and works in Moscow.

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