Team Soviet Union Roster @ U20 World Championships 1979
1979 U20 World Championships Gold Medal Team
| GOALIES | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Pos | Age | Birthdate | Birthplace | HT | WT | SC | |
 | Vladimir Gerasimov | G | 19 | 1959-03-29 | Penza, Russia | 5'7" | 157 | L |
| Dmitri Saprykin | G | 18 | 1960-06-05 | Moscow, Russia | 5'10" | 157 | L |
| DEFENSEMEN | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Pos | Age | Birthdate | Birthplace | HT | WT | SC | |
| Alexei Kasatonov | D | 19 | 1959-10-14 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 6'1" | 216 | L |
| Yuri Vozhakov | D | 19 | 1959-02-05 | Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 5'8" | 183 | L |
| Yuri Strakhov | D | 19 | 1959-11-06 | Bykovo, Russia | 6'0" | 190 | |
| Andrei Sidorenko | D | 19 | 1959-07-22 | Chebarkul, Russia | 6'0" | 176 | |
| Viktor Glushenkov | D | 18 | 1960-09-04 | Moscow, Russia | 6'1" | 196 | L |
| Sergei Karpov | D | 19 | 1959-12-19 | Moscow, Russia | 5'11" | 203 | L |
| Valeri Krylov | D | 19 | 1959-02-08 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 6'1" | 192 | |
| FORWARDS | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Pos | Age | Birthdate | Birthplace | HT | WT | SC | |
| Vladimir Krutov | F | 18 | 1960-06-01 | Moscow, Russia | 5'9" | 194 | L |
| Anatoli Tarasov | F | 19 | 1959-01-15 | Pervouralsk, Russia | 5'11" | 181 | |
| Vyacheslav Ryanov | F | 19 | 1959-01-24 | Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 6'0" | 179 | L |
| Alexander Gerasimov | F | 19 | 1959-03-19 | Penza, Russia | 5'10" | 179 | |
| Andrei Andreyev | F | 19 | 1959-03-04 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 5'10" | 179 | |
| Gennadi Kurdin | F | 19 | 1959-02-09 | Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 6'0" | 187 | R |
| Igor Larionov | F | 18 | 1960-12-03 | Voskresensk, Russia | 5'9" | 170 | L |
| Nikolai Varyanov | F | 19 | 1959-02-03 | Yekaterinburg, Russia | 6'2" | 198 | |
| Anatoli Antipov | F | 19 | 1959-01-22 | Moscow, Russia | 5'9" | 194 | L |
| Nikolai Maslov | F | 18 | 1960-05-16 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 6'3" | 196 | L |
| Vladimirs Golovkovs | F | 18 | 1960-07-28 | Riga, Latvia | 5'11" | 192 | |