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Vyacheslav Anisin

Soviet ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ1379171 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Anisin (born 11 July 1951) is a Russian retired professional ice hockey player.

Anisin played in the Soviet Championship League for HC CSKA Moscow, Krylya Sovetov Moscow, SKA Leningrad and HC Spartak Moscow. He would later play in the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League for KHL Medveščak and in Serie A in Italy for HC Milano Saima.

He also played for the Soviet team during the 1972 Summit Series and the 1974 Summit Series against Canada. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973.

Personal life

Anisin was born in Moscow, Russia. His son Mikhail Anisin is also an ice hockey player and currently plays for UHC Dynamo of the Kontinental Hockey League. His daughter Marina Anissina is a former European, World and Olympic champion ice dancer who represented France. She retired after winning gold in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Anisin was a recipient of the Soviet Medal "For Labour Valour".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vyacheslav Anisin” is soviet ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vyacheslav, Anisin and Soviet, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1972, 1974, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-07-11. For this dossier, Vyacheslav, Anisin and Soviet is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1379171. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1972, 1974 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vyacheslav Anisin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.