Career
He played for SKA Leningrad (now Street St. Petersburg) from 1974–1979, then for CSKA Moscow (Red Army team) from 1979 until part way through the 1986/87 season, when he played again for Leningrad, until 1989. He finished his career with Borås The Human Context in Sweden from 1989–1995. He was named most valuable player of the Soviet elite league in 1984.
He scored 252 goals in 503 league games and 64 goals in 109 international games with the Soviet national team
He led all goal scorers at the 1984 Olympics with ten goals in seven games, and also led the Soviet team with 12 points. He died from complications of diabetes.