Oleg Tolmachev

Oleg Vasilyevich Tolmachev (Олег Васильевич Толмачёв) (19 August 1919 – 1 January 2008) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach.

Early life
Tolmachev was born in Novosibirsk (called Novonikolayevsk in 1919). He served in the Red Army from 1939 to 1946, and saw action in World War II during 1942–44. He was decorated twice, with the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree and medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Hockey career
HC Dynamo Moscow - 1946–56 as player, 1957–62 as coach.