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Ice hockey was not properly introduced into the Soviet Union until the 1940s, though bandy, a similar game played on a larger ice field, had long been popular in the country. It was during a tour of FC Dynamo Moscow of the United Kingdom in 1945 that Soviet officials first got the idea of establishing an ice hockey program.
Skaters Player Olympics Tournaments GP G A P PIM Medals Notes Ref(s) Boris Alexandrov 1 1976 5 2 2 4 0 Gold (1976) IIHFHOF (2019) [b] Veniamin Alexandrov 3 1960, 1964, 1968 18 14 12 26 23 Bronze (1960) Gold (1964) Gold (1968) Alexander Almetov 2 1960, 1964 14 5 6 11 2 Bronze (1960) Gold (1964) Yevgeni Babich 1 1956 7 2 3 5 4 Gold (1956) Sergei Babinov 1 1976 5 2 2 4 15 Gold (1976) Helmuts ...
Anatoly Tarasov coaching a Soviet player in Tampere, Finland, in 1970.. Tarasov was inducted into the inaugural class of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. [7] Having helped to build the Soviet hockey program from scratch, he became the first Soviet man to be enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as a builder.
At that time, Traktor produced several players who achieved international prominence. One of the best Soviet forwards of all times, Sergei Makarov, was born in Chelyabinsk and began his career in Traktor. Along his teammate, defenseman Sergei Starikov, he regularly played on the Soviet national team from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s ...
The Federation of Hockey of the Russian SFSR / Russia (FHR) was established on 12 November 1991. On 19 January 1992, the FHR officially became the successor to the USSR Hockey Federation. [citation needed] On 22 May 1992, former Soviet player Vladimir Petrov was elected president of the FHR. On 8 April 1994, Petrov was removed from the post of ...
The 1979 Challenge Cup was a series of international ice hockey games between the Soviet Union national ice hockey team and a team of All-Stars from the National Hockey League. [1] The games were played on February 8, 10, and 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It replaced the NHL's all-star festivities for the 1978–79 NHL season ...
Hockey Club Ak Bars (Russian: Ак Барс, Tatar: Ак Барс, English: Snow Leopard), also known as Ak Bars Kazan, [1] is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Kazan. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .
He was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989, the first Soviet player to be honored. [citation needed] In 1990, Mike Keenan hired Tretiak as a goaltender coach for the Chicago Blackhawks, which allowed him to coach goaltenders including Ed Belfour, Dominik Hašek, and Jocelyn Thibault. Keenan was so impressed with Tretiak's abilities in ...