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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Tolstykh.

Nikolai Tolstykh

Tolstykh in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstykh
Date of birth	(1956-01-30) 30 January 1956
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Positions	Defender midfielder
Youth career
	FC Dynamo Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974–1983	FC Dynamo Moscow	125	(6)
Managerial career
1987–1989	FC Dynamo Moscow (director)
1993–1997	FC Dynamo Moscow (president)
1998	FC Dynamo Moscow (general director)
1999	FC Dynamo Moscow (president)
2000–2001	FC Dynamo Moscow (general director)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstykh (Russian: Николай Александрович Толстых; born 30 January 1956) is a Russian football administrator and a former player.

Playing career

As a player, he made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1977 for FC Dynamo Moscow.

Later career

He has been the president of the Russian Professional Football League since its founding in 1992. Until 2001 that organization conducted the Russian Top Division competition, and since that year it is limited to Russian First Division and Russian Second Division. From 2012 to 2015 he served as the president of Russian Football Union.

European club competitions

With FC Dynamo Moscow.

• European Cup Winners' Cup 1979–80: 1 game.
• UEFA Cup 1980–81: 2 games.
• UEFA Cup 1982–83: 2 games.