Vladimir Makarov

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Vladimir Vasilevich Makarov (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Макаров; 9 March 1947 – 11 August 1979) was a Soviet footballer.

Vladimir Makarov (footballer)

Personal information
Full name	Vladimir Vasilevich Makarov
Date of birth	(1947-03-09)9 March 1947
Place of birth	Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR
Date of death	11 August 1979 (aged 32)
Place of death	Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1969	Energetik Dushanbe	38	(10)
1970–1973	Pamir Dushanbe	144	(27)
1974–1976	FC Chornomorets Odesa	68	(20)
1977	Pamir Dushanbe	37	(13)
1978–1979	Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	(6)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Makarov played for clubs in Tajikistan and Ukraine from 1969 to 1977. For the last two years of his life, he starred at Pakhtakor Tashkent as a forward in 1978 and 1979. Makarov and sixteen other Pakhtakor Tashkent players and staff were killed in the August 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision.^[1][2] He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1969.