12 Facts About Boris Kulagin

Boris Pavlovich Kulagin was a Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and coach.

Boris Kulagin was born in Barnaul in the Siberia district of the Soviet Union.

In 1930, along with his family, Boris Kulagin moved to Moscow, where his father was stationed in the military.

In 1936, Boris Kulagin was enrolled in hockey lessons, joining the hockey division of the Moscow Dynamo sports society.

Boris Kulagin continued to play ball hockey until the 1940s, when the Soviet Union Central Committee ordered the conversion of organized play into ice hockey, then considered "Canadian hockey".

Boris Kulagin disliked the transition from bandy but was bound to the change to remain in the profession.

Boris Kulagin was transferred to Moscow in the 1960s and Boris Kulagin became assistant coach to Anatoly Tarasov at HC CSKA Moscow, the Central Red Army team.

Tarasov was the national team coach, and Boris Kulagin became assistant on the national team.

Boris Kulagin was assistant coach on the first "super series" between the Soviet national team and the NHL-based Team Canada in 1972, the "Summit Series".

Boris Kulagin would be Soviet head coach in the second super series, the "1974 Summit Series" against a WHA-based Team Canada.

Boris Kulagin remained national team coach until the final period of the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships.

Boris Kulagin returned to the Soviet Union in 1980 and coached Moscow Spartak until his death in 1988.