Farewell ceremony for footballer Oleg Garin to be held in Nakhodka

A farewell ceremony for former Lokomotiv Moscow striker Oleg Garin will be held in Nakhodka in Russia’s Primorye region, SKA-Khabarovsk’s press service said. He died aged 60.

The club announced his death on Tuesday. A date for the ceremony has yet to be set.

Garin played for Lokomotiv Moscow from 1993 to 1997 and won the Russian Cup twice. He also earned silver and bronze medals in the Russian championship.

He scored 20 league goals in 1994, a tally that remains Lokomotiv’s record for a single Russian championship season.

Garin also played for Luch, Okean, Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod, Uralan and Lada. His coaching career included Okean, Krasnoyarsk’s Metallurg and Dynamo Bryansk. In recent years, he was senior coach of SKA-Khabarovsk’s youth team.