Nabutov V. S.(1917-73), sports commentator

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NABUTOV Viktor Sergeevich (1917-1973), sportsman, radio and television commentator, master of sports (1934). In 1947 he graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute however from 1936 he was already playing for the Dinamo football team as goalkeeper, and from 1938 until 1939 for Elektrik (Krasnaya Zarya), in 1938 qualifying for the finals of the USSR Cup. After the merger of trade union teams into Zenit in 1940, he returned to Dinamo where he played until 1948. In 1948 he delivered the first football game report, with the emergence of television Nabutov made the move to TV sportscasting. Nabutov was the first to sportscast live from Leningrad across the country, and the only Leningrad sportscaster, to report from the Olympic games. He lived at 3 Pushkinskaya Street (memorial plaque), and was buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

I. A. Bogdanov. Nabutov Viktor Sergeevich
Pushkinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Zenit, football club
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery