The great hockey player, wonderful football player and brilliant coach Anatoly Tarasov was a symbol of Soviet sports. Encyclopedia Britannica calls him the "father of Russian hockey" who made the USSR the "dominant force" in international hockey. And this is really so. Anatoly Tarasov did the seemingly impossible: together with the honored coach of the USSR Arkady Chernyshev, he set an unsurpassed record - for 9 years in a row (1963–1971), the USSR national hockey team under their leadership became the champion in all international tournaments. Proposed reader, a new book by the famous Russian writer Fyodor Razzakov is not just a biography of a great athlete and teacher: it is a book about great coaches and great victories.