Aleksandr Markin

Aleksandr Markin
Personal information
Full nameAleksandr Andreyevich Markin
Date of birth10 October 1949
Place of birthMagnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
Date of death2 September 1996 (aged 46)
Place of deathSt. Petersburg, Russia
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionForward
Youth career
FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1967FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1968–1970FC SKA Khabarovsk83(16)
1971–1974FC Zvezda Perm111(51)
1975–1977FC Zenit Leningrad68(26)
1978–1979FC SKA Rostov-on-Don51(19)
1980FC Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk33(10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Aleksandr Andreyevich Markin (Russian: Александр Андреевич Маркин; born 10 October 1949 in Magnitogorsk; died 2 September 1996 in St. Petersburg in an apartment fire) was a Soviet Russian football player.

He is most notable as the top scorer of the 1976 (autumn) Soviet Top League with 13 goals. He was the first FC Zenit St. Petersburg player to become a top scorer and the only Zenit player to score 4 goals in a league game.

He was also the top scorer in the 1974 season of the Soviet First League with 25 goals.

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