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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 ...
As all able-bodied Soviet males had to serve in the military, the team was thus able to draft the best young hockey players in the Soviet Union onto the team. All players were commissioned officers in the Soviet Army. There was a substantial overlap between the rosters of the Red Army Team and the Soviet national team, which was one factor ...
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.
The Ice Hockey Federation of Russia (Russian: Федерация Хоккея России, [1] Federatsiya Khokkeya Rossii) is the governing body overseeing ice hockey in Russia. [2] [3] In 2019, Russia had 110,624 ice hockey players registered with its ice hockey federation. [4]
The Soviet Cup was the national ice hockey cup competition in the Soviet Union. It was contested on-and-off from 1951 (73 years ago) ( 1951 ) to 1989 (35 years ago) ( 1989 ) . Champions
The following is a list of the annual point scoring champions of the top Russian ice hockey league of each era, from the Soviet Championship League to the current Kontinental Hockey League. Soviet Championship
Pages in category "Ice hockey leagues in the Soviet Union" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He scored 35 goals in 296 games in the Soviet elite hockey league from 1949 to 1963. [2] He also played for the Soviet Union national team in 1956. In 1950, he became a Soviet Sports Master. As a player, he won four gold medals of the Soviet national championship (three times with VVS (1951–1953) and once with Dynamo, 1954). [3]