Vladimir Makarov

Vladimir Makarov (footballer)
Personal information
Full name Vladimir Vasilevich Makarov
Date of birth (1947-03-09)9 March 1947
Place of birth Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR
Date of death 11 August 1979 (aged 32)
Place of death Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969 Energetik Dushanbe 38 (10)
1970–1973 Pamir Dushanbe 144 (27)
1974–1976 FC Chornomorets Odesa 68 (20)
1977 Pamir Dushanbe 37 (13)
1978–1979 Pakhtakor Tashkent 42 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vladimir Vasilevich Makarov (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Макаров; 9 March 1947 – 11 August 1979) was a Soviet footballer.

Club career

Makarov played for clubs in Tajikistan and Ukraine from 1969 to 1977. For the last two years of his life, he starred at Pakhtakor Tashkent as a forward in 1978 and 1979. Makarov and sixteen other Pakhtakor Tashkent players and staff were killed in the August 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision.[1][2] He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1969.

References

  1. ^ "Accident description". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network (ASN). Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  2. ^ "A monument to Pakhtakor football players erected near Dneprodzerzhynsk (Ukrainian)". podrobnosti. 4 August 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2025.