Nikita Simonyan

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Soviet and Russian footballer and coach

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Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan was a Soviet and Russian football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow, where he was top scorer of all time with 160 goals.

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Photos 4

At the opening of the Fisht Stadium in 2017

Presentation of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland', 4th class (29 December 2011)

Presentation of the Armenian Order of Honour with President Serzh Sargsyan (25 March 2011)

Teams 4

Soviet Union national association football team1954-1958

Spartak Moscow1949-1959

FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow1946-1948

FC Dinamo Sukhumi1944-1945

Career record

SpellAppsGoals

1954-19582010

1949-1959233133

1946-1948529

Awards 19

2025Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation

2022Order of Honour and Glory

2019Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"

2019Honored Physical Culture Worker of the Russian Federation

2011Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class

2011Order of the Badge of Honour

2000Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

1997Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude

1996Silver Olympic Order

1995Order of Friendship

1971Order of the Badge of Honour

1970Merited Coach of the USSR

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1968Honoured coach of the RSFSR

1957Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1954Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR

Medal "For Labour Valour"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Khorenatsi medal

Connected to Nikita 6

Sergei BagapshAlso won Order of Honour and Glory

Vitaly MutkoAlso won Honored Physical Culture Worker of the Russian Federation

Alexey MillerAlso won Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation

Artur AleksanyanAlso won Khorenatsi medal

Tatiana TarasovaAlso won Honoured coach of the RSFSR

Irina Viner-UsmanovaAlso won Honored Physical Culture Worker of the Russian Federation

About this person

Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan was a Soviet and Russian football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow, where he was top scorer of all time with 160 goals. He played for the Soviet Union national team, winning the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics and reaching the quarter-finals of the 1958 FIFA World Cup. As a manager, he won the Soviet Top League with Ararat Yerevan in 1973.