Career
Tambijevs began his career with the Dinamo Riga youth team As a junior he played with several Latvian teams. He debuted at the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Tier III level with RASMS-Energo, but soon joined Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics top level team Leningrad SKA for the 1990/1991 season.
He then returned to Riga where had played until 1995 with ex-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics league premier level teams Riga-Stars and Hong Kong Pardaugava.
After the disbanding of Riga premier league teams in 1995, Tambijevs moved abroad and played with Denmark team Hvidovre IK. A career highpoint includes a spot with Finnish Master of Science-liiga at Rauma Lukko. He then played in Germany, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, and spent his final season with EV Zeltweg in Austria
Tambijevs has an extensive Latvian national ice hockey team career.
He made his debut at the first official renewed national teams" game in 1992 and has played at every world championship, Olympic qualifier and Olympic Games for the Latvian team until 2007. On 13 April 2007 in a Latvian game against Finland, Tambijevs and Aleksandrs Semjonovs became the first two players to play 200 games for the Latvia national team
He has played the most games and scored the most points for the national team
