Vladimir Ivanovich Vikulov (born July 20, 1946) is a retired ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player who played in the Soviet Hockey League

Soviet Hockey League

The Soviet Championship was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia, instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy, with history of the game in Russia dating several centuries into...

. He was born in Moscow

Moscow

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, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and played for HC CSKA Moscow

HC CSKA Moscow

HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

. Vikulov led the Soviet league in goals in 1971-72, and was top goal scorer at the IIHF World Championships the same year http://www.chidlovski.net/1954/54_player_info.asp?p_id=v004. He was a Soviet all-star in 1970, 1971, and 1972, and an all-star at the world championships in 1971 and 1972 http://www.chidlovski.net/1954/54_player_info.asp?p_id=v004. Vikulov tied for second in scoring at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. This tournament also counted as IIHF World Championship and IIHF European Championship...

 with 12 points in 7 games. He played in the 1972 Summit Series against NHL all-stars and the 1974 Summit Series

1974 Summit Series

The 1974 Summit Series was the second of two competitions between Soviet and Canadian professional ice hockey players. Canada was represented by World Hockey Association players instead of National Hockey League players, as it had been in the 1972 Summit Series. The Soviet team won the series 4-1-3...

 against WHA all-stars http://www.azhockey.com/Default.htm. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame

Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame

This is a list of ice hockey players of the USSR or Russia who were awarded either the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR or this title's successor Honoured Master of Sports of Russia respectively. The first ice hockey player was awarded this title in 1948...

in 1967.