Vyacheslav Lampeyev

Like many Soviet field hockey players, Vyacheslav Lampeyev was originally a bandy player, before taking up field hockey, because before the 1970s, field hockey was not played much in the Soviet Union. Throughout his career, which lasted from the end of the 1960s to 1984, Lampeyev was a member of Volga Ulyanovsk and played bandy in winter and field hockey in summer. He played on the winning Soviet field hockey champion teams in 1970, 1971 and 1974 and won a silver (1972) and two bronzes (1976, 1977) at the Soviet bandy championships. Lampeyev was on the Soviet national field hockey team from 1976-80 and won a 1980 Olympic bronze and 1978 Intercontinental Cup bronze with them. After finishing his sporting career, Lampeyev worked as a bandy coach in his native Ulyanovsk until his untimely death in a fire when his house burned down in late 2003. The cause of fire was believed to be a faulty stove.