Former Lokomotiv Moscow forward Oleg Garin dies aged 60

Former Lokomotiv Moscow forward Oleg Garin has died aged 60, SKA Khabarovsk and Lokomotiv announced.

Garin played for the Moscow club from 1993 to 1997, winning the Russian Cup twice and earning silver and bronze medals in the domestic league.

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

Garin also played for Luch Vladivostok, Okean Nakhodka, Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod, Uralan Elista and Lada Tolyatti. As a coach, he led Okean, Metallurg Krasnoyarsk and Dynamo Bryansk.

In recent years, Garin had been the senior coach of SKA Khabarovsk’s youth team.