Nayair Tiknizyan


Nayair Oganesovich Tiknizyan is a Russian football player of Armenian descent. He plays as a left midfielder for PFC CSKA Moscow. He also plays at left-back.
The first name that his father intended to give him and people who know him use is Nair, but the clerk who issued his birth certificate made a mistake which perpetuated in all official documents since. Tiknizyan himself said he can not find the time to officially petition for a change of name.

Club career

Tiknizyan made his debut for the main squad of PFC CSKA Moscow on 20 September 2017 in a Russian Cup game against FC Avangard Kursk. He made his second appearance on 10 October 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Tyumen.
On 9 January 2019, CSKA Moscow announced that Tiknizyan had signed a new contract with the club until the summer of 2022.
He made his Russian Premier League debut for CSKA on 25 August 2019 in a game against FC Akhmat Grozny, as a 89th-minute substitute for Ivan Oblyakov.
On 20 January 2020, Tiknizyan moved on loan to Avangard Kursk until the end of the 2019–20 season.

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