Happy birthday, Pyotr Vorobyov!

On the 28th of January, 1998 Olympic silver medalist, 1993 World Championship silver medalist, 1992 World Junior Championship champion, 1997 Russian champion, 2006 Continental Cup winner and current VHL club SKA-Neva head coach Pyotr Vorobyov celebrates his birthday. Today he turned 68 years old.

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation wishes Pyotr a very happy birthday, as well as happiness, health and more success in his work!

Vorobyov Pyotr Ilich 

Honoured Soviet and Russian ice hockey coach

Player achievements:

- Played with Dynamo Kiev and Dinamo Riga. Played for the second USSR national team. Played in 205 USSR championhip matches, scored 120 goals. Honoured USSR Master of Sports.

Coaching career:

- Began coaching in 1980. He started out as an head coach's assistant, and as well as working with a number of teams in Latvia, Germany and Russia he worked in the Russian national team's coaching staff. He was the Latvian head coach for the 2006 World Championship. In December 2010 he returned to club work with HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's youth team, and in 2011 he made the second round of the VHL playoffs with the first team. He became Lokomotiv's first team head coach on the 19th of September 2013, and now works with SKA-1946 in the MHL.

Coaching achievements: 

- World Champion (1993), World Junior Champion (1992), Russian champion (1997), International Hockey League winner (1992), Continental Cup winner (2006), Olympic silver medalist (1998), silver World Junior Championship medalist (1998, 2000), silver medalist of the European Champions Cup (1991, 1993), Russian championship silver medalist (2005), World Junior Championship bronze medalist (1997), Russian championship bronze medalist (1998, 1999, 2003, 2004).

Russian Ice Hockey Federation