Marker No. 74 on the highway between St. Petersburg and Moscow doesn't look any different from any other in Russia; the same abyss of vegetable fields, the same birch groves and the same line of dandelions on the side of the road.
The only thing that makes it stand out is a small monument in the shape of an oversized granite puck and a metal stick. It reads: "Valeri Kharlamov. Here fell the Star of the Russian hockey." It was at this spot on Aug. 27, 1981, that an automobile crash killed one of the best to ever play the game.