Nikita Simonyan
Simonyan in 2017
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan | ||
| Date of birth | 12 October 1926 | ||
| Place of birth | Armavir, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Dynamo Sukhumi | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1948 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 52 | (9) |
| 1949–1959 | Spartak Moscow | 233 | (133) |
| National team | |||
| 1954–1958 | USSR | 20 | (10) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1960–1965 | Spartak Moscow | ||
| 1967–1972 | Spartak Moscow | ||
| 1973–1974 | Ararat Yerevan | ||
| 1977–1979 | USSR | ||
| 1980–1981 | Chornomorets | ||
| 1984–1985 | Ararat Yerevan | ||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan (Armenian: Նիկիտա Մկրտիչ Սիմոնյան, Russian: Никита Павлович Симонян, born Mkrtych Pogosovich Simonyan, 12 October 1926) is a former Soviet football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He was born in Armavir. As of 2016 he is the Russian football functionary First Vice-President of the Russian Football Union. Simonyan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1954, the Honored Coach of Russia title in 1968, the Merited Coach of the USSR title in 1970 and the Commander of the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" award on December 29, 2011. Simonyan is the top scorer in the history of the club Spartak Moscow at 160 goals, and is also the top scorer in the Soviet Top League at 133 goals.
Simonyan was a player for FC Dinamo Sukhumi during his youth career. His first coach was Shota Lominadze. After sixteen years of living in Sokhumi, Simonyan moved to Moscow, where he was invited by Vladimir Gorokhov and Abram Dangulov to join the local club FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow, also known as the "Wings of the Soviets". Gorokhov became Simonyan's first coach in Moscow. For the first match of the Soviet Top League, Simonyan played in Sukhumi against FC Dinamo Minsk. When he arrived in the city, he found out that his house had been searched and his father was arrested. The arrest was organized by the Georgian authorities to put pressure on Simonyan in order to lure him into FC Dinamo Tbilisi. This provocation did not work and Simonyan continued to play for Krylya Sovetov Moscow, where he spent three years.
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