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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.
VVS Moscow (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: Moscow Military Air Force) was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football , ice hockey , basketball , and volleyball .
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 ...
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 ...
Petrov played for the Soviet team in three Winter Olympics, 1972 Soviet Union–Canada Summit Series and many IIHF World Championships. He is the fourth all-time leading top scorer at the World Championships, with 154 points (74 goals and 80 assists) in 102 games.
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.
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