Vyacheslav Viktorovich Artashin ( March 17, 1972 , Kazan - May 22, 2014 , ibid.) - Soviet and Russian rugby player who played rugby league. Repeated rugby league champion of Russia, participant in the 2000 World Cup , licensed rugby referee.
 Vyacheslav Artashin | ||
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| general information | ||
| Full name | Vyacheslav Viktorovich Artashin | |
| Date of Birth | March 17, 1972 | |
| Place of Birth | Kazan , RSFSR , USSR | |
| Citizenship |  Russia | |
| Date of death | May 22, 2014 (42 years old) | |
| A place of death | Kazan , Russia | |
| Position | prop | |
| Career | ||
| Rugby League Club Career | ||
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| National team** | ||
 USSR (mol.) | ||
| Russia (rugby league) | ||
** The number of games and points for the national team in official matches. | ||
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Biography
Artashin played for Strela Kazan club [1] , having won several Russian rugby league titles (rugby 13). He is known for playing for the USSR youth rugby team and for the Russian rugby team, in which he played at the World Cup in 2000. At the end of his playing career, he was the organizer of various children's, junior and veteran tournaments in rugby 7, rugby league and beach rugby, and also judged matches at these tournaments [2] . In 2013, he was a judge at the games of the 2013 Summer Universiade [3] . Master of Sports of Russia (2003). Member of a number of veteran tournaments [4] .
The ex-wife of Vyacheslav Ellin Skvortsova and their daughter Daria tragically died in a plane crash in Kazan on November 17, 2013 [5] [6] , which was a shock for Artashin. May 22, 2014 he died of a heart attack, unable to withstand the consequences of the tragedy. He was buried on May 24 at the Samosyrovo cemetery [3] .
Vyacheslav Artashin named the prize that is awarded at one of the junior rugby-7 tournaments in the Volga Federal District: in 2015, his brother Vyacheslav Sergey handed it to the winners [7] .
Notes
- β Rugby. OCTOBER 23, 2000 (Russian)
- β Kazan will host the Russian Championship among young men (Rus.)
- β 1 2 Kazan rugby player Vyacheslav Artashin passed away. Archived copy of January 30, 2019 on the Wayback Machine (Russian)
- β And again the sun, and again the oval ball (Russian)
- β Moscow-Kazan-Paradise (Russian)
- β The famous Kazan rugby player Vyacheslav Artashin (Russian) has died
- β TATARSTAN FIRST ON VFD IN RUGBY-7 (Russian)