Vasili Viktorovich Tikhonov (13 May 1958 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian ice hockey coach.
After the 1992–1993 season Tikhonov moved to North America and worked as an assistant coach with the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League and later as a head coach with the Kansas City Blades and Kentucky Thoroughblades of the American Hockey League.
[1] His son Viktor Tikhonov is a former NHL player with the Arizona Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan in the KHL.
[2] Vasily Tikhonov died on 7 August 2013 in Moscow as he fell from his fourth-floor apartment window.
[1] Tikhonov was cutting a hole to a plastic screen that covered his building's facade because of repairs.