Viktor Grigorievich Kuzkin (July 6, 1940 – June 24, 2008) was an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 defender who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow

HC CSKA Moscow

HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame

Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame

This is a list of ice hockey players of the USSR or Russia who were awarded either the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR or this title's successor Honoured Master of Sports of Russia respectively. The first ice hockey player was awarded this title in 1948...

 in 1963. He was born in Moscow

Moscow

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, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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Kuzkin won three gold medals in ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, winning them from 1964

1964 Winter Olympics

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 to 1972

1972 Winter Olympics

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He died after suffering a heart attack whilst diving in Sochi

Sochi

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, Russia

Russia

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