{ "id": "ep0kzqc1c3", "slug": "nikolay-khlystov", "title": "Nikolay Khlystov", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play" }, { "id": "play.team", "label": "Other team and ball sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team" }, { "id": "play.team.hockey", "label": "Hockey and remaining team sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team.hockey" }, { "id": "play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people", "label": "Ice hockey players and personnel", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people", "label": "Eastern Europe · 1946 to 2000: Ice hockey players and personnel", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people", "path": [ { "id": "geo.eeu", "label": "Eastern Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946", "label": "Eastern Europe · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.team", "label": "Other team and ball sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.team" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey", "label": "Hockey and remaining team sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people", "label": "Ice hockey players and personnel", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Nikolay Khlystov (Николай Павлович Хлыстов, 1932–1999), Soviet ice hockey forward; Krylya Sovetov 1950–61, Olympic gold 1956 Cortina, world champion 1954 and 1956, Soviet champion 1957.", "snippet": "Nikolay Khlystov (Николай Павлович Хлыстов, 1932–1999), Soviet ice hockey forward; Krylya Sovetov 1950–61, Olympic gold 1956 Cortina, world champion 1954 and 1956, Soviet champion 1957.", "node": "play.team.hockey.ice-hockey-people", "markdown": "# Nikolay Khlystov\n\n**Nikolay Khlystov** (Nikolay Pavlovich Khlystov, Николай Павлович Хлыстов; 10 November 1932 – 14 February 1999) was a Soviet ice hockey forward who won Olympic gold with the Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics in [Cortina d'Ampezzo](https://www.edgepedia.org/cortina-dampezzo) and spent his entire eleven-season club career with Krylya Sovetov Moskva (Wings of the Soviets).[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) He was also a two-time world champion and a four-time European champion.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Born / died | 10 November 1932, Vyazhnevka, Ryazan; 14 February 1999, Moscow, aged 66[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) |\n| Club career | Krylya Sovetov Moskva, 1950–1961; Soviet champion 1957; USSR Cup winner 1951[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) |\n| Olympic result | Gold, men's ice hockey, 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo; 7 games, 1 goal[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) |\n| World and European titles | World champion 1954 and 1956, world silver 1955, 1957, 1958; European champion 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) |\n| Honors | Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1954); Order of the Badge of Honour (1957); Russian hockey Hall of Fame (2004)[2](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html) |\n\n## Club career with Krylya Sovetov\n\nKhlystov debuted for Krylya Sovetov in 1950 and stayed with the club for his whole career, from 1950 to 1961.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) The 1957 title was the first Soviet championship in the club's history, won ahead of the army club.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n\n**The Guryshev line.** From the 1952–53 season, in which Khlystov scored 22 goals, he formed a forward line with Mikhail Bychkov and [Aleksey Guryshev](https://www.edgepedia.org/aleksey-guryshev) that became one of the most productive combinations of the era.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html) In the following season the trio scored 63 of the club's 93 goals.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html) Within the trio Khlystov was the playmaker: accounts describe him racing ahead with the puck and feeding Guryshev, a celebrated sniper.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n\n## International career\n\nKhlystov joined the Soviet national team in 1954, and the Guryshev line went to the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm as a unit, returning with gold medals; on that tournament Khlystov played mainly as a passer and scored no goals.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html) At the 1955 World Championship in [West Germany](https://www.edgepedia.org/west-germany) he scored twice against the West German team.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n\n**1956 Olympics.** At the Cortina d'Ampezzo Games, the first Winter Olympics in which the Soviet Union competed, the Soviet team won the ice hockey tournament, defeating Canada 2–0 in the final-round game and finishing with seven wins in seven games and an aggregate score of 40–9.[4](https://www.olympedia.org/editions/35/) • [2](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html) At Cortina, Guryshev and Khlystov were joined by [Yury Pantyukhov](https://www.edgepedia.org/yury-pantyukhov) of the army club in place of their usual linemate Bychkov.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n\nSources differ on the national-team totals: the Krylya Sovetov fan archive lists 108 games and 25 goals,[5](https://km1954.ru/hall/player/khlystov/) and Olympedia's biography counts 79 games and 22 goals for the 1954–58 national-team period.[2](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html) His medal record at the World Championships and Olympics is consistent across sources: gold in 1954 and 1956, silver in 1955, 1957, and 1958, and European titles in 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1958.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906)\n\n## Playing style\n\nA contemporary account states that no defender, including the reliable [Nikolay Sologubov](https://www.edgepedia.org/nikolay-sologubov), could stop him when he was moving forward with the puck.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n\n## Later life and recognition\n\nKhlystov left professional hockey in 1961 at age 31 and worked as a coach with the Krasny Oktyabr sports club from 1961 to 1964.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906) • [3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html) He was named an Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in 1954,[2](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html) though the Sports Russia registry dates the title to 1956.[6](https://infosport.ru/person/3037)\n\nHis club honored him after his death. He suffered from heart problems and leg pain in later years and died in Moscow on 14 February 1999; he is buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery.[3](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html) • [2](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Nikolay Khlystov, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87906)\n2. [Khlystov Nikolay (ice hockey), Olympteka](https://olympteka.ru/olymp/athlets/profile/709.html)\n3. [We Remember: Nikolay Khlystov, Championat (11 February 2010)](https://www.championat.ru/hockey/article-3092077-my-pomnim-nikolaj-khlystov.html)\n4. [1956 Winter Olympics Overview, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/editions/35/)\n5. [Khlystov Nikolay Pavlovich, Krasnaya Mashina archive](https://km1954.ru/hall/player/khlystov/)\n6. 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