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After his playing career, Bobrov coached both football and ice hockey. He coached the Soviet national team in ice hockey, most notably during the 1972 Summit Series against Canada. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame when it was founded in 1997.
The Sverdlovsk plane crash of 7 January 1950 killed all 19 people on board, including almost the entire ice hockey team of the Soviet Air Forces – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
Legend No. 17 (Russian: Легенда №17) is a 2013 Russian biographical sports film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and produced by Trite Studio.The film is based on real events and tells of the rise to fame of the Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov and about the first match of the Summit Series USSR — Canada 1972.
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Vsevolod Bobrov played on the football team 1950–52 and the ice hockey team 1949–53. Viktor Tikhonov , the future Soviet national team's coach, played on the ice hockey team, as did Boris Kulagin , future coach of other Moscow -based ice hockey teams.
Bobrov was a former player who had played against Canada in the 1950s [31] and later managed the Soviet national soccer team and the Moscow Spartak ice hockey team. [32] Bobrov had been given the job as the Soviets' national ice hockey team coach, replacing long-time coach Anatoly Tarasov after the 1972 Winter Olympics. [ 32 ]
The Russian soccer players were more interested in watching Canadian players play hockey than in soccer." [ 2 ] The Soviet Championship League was established in 1946, and the national team was formed shortly after, playing their first matches in a series of exhibitions against LTC Praha in 1948.
Canada Russia '72 is a 2006 Canadian docudrama miniseries about the 1972 Summit Series, a series of exhibition ice hockey games between state amateurs of the Soviet Union and professional players from Canada.