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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov (Russian: Все́волод Миха́йлович Бобро́в, IPA: [ˈfsʲevələd bɐˈbrof]; 1 December 1922 – 1 July 1979) was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Soviets ever in each of those sports.
The KHL's Bobrov Division was formed in 2008 as part of the league's inauguration and is part of the Western conference since the second season of KHL when the conferences were established. It is one of 4 divisions. It is named in honor of Vsevolod Bobrov; storied ice hockey gold medalist for the Soviet Union and former CSKA and VVS player.
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]
Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced as at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and added to the Winter Olympics when they began in 1924. [1] The Soviet Union participated in nine tournaments, the first in 1956 and the last in 1988.
The Soviet national ice hockey team [a] was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships or the Olympic hockey tournament .
The club returned to the Soviet Class A in 1950–51 and remained in the top division of the Soviet league until 1991. The highest achievements of the club during that time were the 1968 and 1971 Soviet Cup Finals (the former was lost to CSKA Moscow 7–1, the latter to Spartak Moscow 5–1) as well as the bronze medals of the 1970–71 and ...
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Soviet Hockey League, top league of Soviet hockey; Soviet Top League, football competition; USSR Chess Championship, chess competition; USSR Championships (tennis), a closed national tennis competition 1924 to 1991 also called the Soviet Championships; USSR International Championships, an open (to foreign players) tennis competition 1957 to ...