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6 May 2016 documentary of Evgeni Malkin by Channel 1.

A thousand thanks to Okapik who took the time to translate this entire documentary. You are an absolute star and you deserve all the things!

The subtitles are added by yours truly, and I apologise to any and all Russian speakers at any text and audio disparity. I don't speak Russian, so this was a process of guess work, mostly.

16 May 2016: Some corrections made.

Russian nicknames and diminutives:

Evgeni - Zhenya - Zhenka
Sergei - Serega - Serezha - Sery
Vladimir - Volodya
Alexander - Sanya
Anna - Anya
Pavel - Pasha

* At 18:24 Geno makes a joke about Kuznetsov being from Chelyabinsk. In Russia, there is a joke about the toughest people being from Chelyabinsk.

* At 28:52 Geno refers to a Zapashny, who is a famous Russian tiger handler.

*At 35:56 Gennadi and Gonch are playing pool, and they were making it a game where normally the winner decides what the loser has to do (e.g. pushups or something similar), but Geno decided that he would decide as the referee.

List of people appearing on-screen (In order of appearance):

Evgeni Malkin
Anna Kasterova
Vladislav Tretiak: three-time Olympic champion and the president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
Sidney Crosby
Sergei Gimaev: honoured coach of Russia
Vladimir Putin
Natalia Malkina: Geno's mother
Vladimir Malkin: Geno's father
Sergei Vitman
Vladimir Petrov: two-time Olympic champion
Gennadi Ushakov: Geno's agent
Marc-André Fleury
Sergei Gonchar
Mike Sullivan

Heard off-screen:

Paul Steigerwald
Mike Lange