Nikolay Epshtein | |
Birth Name: | Nikolay Semyonovich Epshtein |
Birth Date: | 17 December 1919 |
Birth Place: | Kolomna, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Selyatino, Russia |
Resting Place: | Vostryakovsky Cemetery, Moscow |
Citizenship: | Russian |
Occupation: | Ice hockey coach |
Nikolay Semyonovich Epshtein (Russian: Николай Семёнович Эпштейн) (27 December 1919 – 27 August 2005) was a Soviet ice hockey coach.
Epshtein, who was Jewish, was born in Kolomna, Russian FSFR.[1] [2] He coached from 1953 to 1975 in the Soviet National League as head coach of Chimik in Voskresensk.[1] [3] [4] He was also head coach of the Soviet junior national team that won a European Championship.[1] [5] [6]
He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.[1] He was an inaugural inductee to the Russian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2005.[1] He died from Alzheimers in 2005.[4]