Vladimir Proskurin ( 1945   2020), who played forward position, is the most notable co-top scorer of the 1969 Soviet Top League, but did not receive the top scorer prize by Trud newspaper.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Proskurin (Russian:   ; 24 January 1945  19 July 2020) was a Soviet Russian football player and coach. Forward He is most notable as the co-top scorer of the 1969 Soviet Top League with 16 goals. He was not awarded the top scorer prize as the Trud newspaper which was awarding said prize suspected that the last game of the season, in which he scored a hat-trick to catch up to Nikolai Osyanin on the scorers list, was fixed (his team FC SKA Rostov-on-Don played FC Torpedo Kutaisi with a score of 3-3, Kutaisi's Dzhemal Kherhadze, who also scored a hat-trick to catch up with Osyanin, was not awarded the prize either). 
