Yevgeny Makarovich Babich (January 7, 1921 – June 11, 1972) was a 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.

Biography

Babich 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...

. 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 1953.

Babich was Jewish, as were fellow Soviet Olympic gold medalist hockey players Alfred Kucherevsky, Yuri Lyapkin

Yuri Lyapkin

Yuri Evgenievich Lyapkin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League as a defenseman. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He won a gold medal playing for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Olympics, as his team was undefeated. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey...

, and Vladimir Myashkin.http://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&pg=PA254&dq=Yevgeny+Babich+jewish&hl=en&ei=qKJvTYCzEIjDgQfG4IUy&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA

He committed suicide

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

 by hanging

Hanging

Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

 himself in a bathroom

Bathroom

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External links

• Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio