Birth Date: | 4 August 1939 |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 10 |
Weight Lb: | 190 |
Position: | Defence |
Shoots: | Left |
Ntl Team: | URS |
Career Start: | 1959 |
Career End: | 1969 |
Oleg Alekseevich Zaytsev (b. August 4, 1939 in Moscow, Soviet Union - d. March 1, 1993[1]) was an ice hockey defenceman who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.
He won two Olympic gold medals competing for the Soviet Union hockey team in 1964 and 1968.[2]