year it was created. For the greatest Russian athlete in the 20th century, Bobrov finished third behind football goalkeeper Lev Yashin and Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin. The Kontinental Hockey League, a Russian-based ice hockey league, has one of its four divisions named after Bobrov. In popular culture The movie My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin (1991) was inspired by the story of his friendship with Vasili Stalin Bobrov is mentioned in the movie The Death of Stalin. References Bibliography </ref> Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2010). "Ice Hockey: Men". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 25. External links Profile and Statistics at People.ru Profile and Statistics at FootballFacts.ru Profile and Statistics at Rusteam.Permian.ru Biography at Football99.ru Bobrov at Hockey CCCP International 1922 births 1979 deaths Association football forwards Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery Expatriate football managers in Kazakhstan FC Chornomorets Odesa managers FC Kairat managers FC Spartak Moscow players Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics HC CSKA Moscow players Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Ice hockey players at the 1956 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic ice hockey players of the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in ice hockey People from Morshansk PFC CSKA Moscow managers PFC CSKA Moscow players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Russian football managers Russian footballers Soviet bandy players Soviet football managers Soviet footballers Soviet ice hockey coaches Soviet ice hockey left wingers Soviet Top League players Soviet Union international footballers Soviet Union national ice hockey team coaches Sportspeople from Tambov Oblast Soviet military personnel of World War II