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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.
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.
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. They watched several exhibition matches in London, and National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell would later say that "This was the time when the Russians got the idea for their hockey ...
This is a category categorizing various articles pertaining to the Bobrov Division of the Western Conference of the Kontinental Hockey League. Pages in category "Bobrov Division" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Soviet Hockey Championship (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по хоккею) was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia , instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy .
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 ...
1947–48 Vsevolod Bobrov - CDKA Moscow; 1948–49 Alexei Guryshev - Krylya Sovetov Moscow; 1951–52 Vsevolod Bobrov - VVS Moscow; 1950–51 Vsevolod Bobrov - VVS Moscow; 1951–52 Vsevolod Bobrov - VVS Moscow; 1952–53 Viktor Shuvalov - VVS Moscow; 1953–54 Belyaev Bekyashev - ODO Leningrad; 1954–55 Alexei Guryshev - Krylya Sovetov Moscow
Ice hockey was further popularized by Canadians introduced to the Soviet Union in 1932. [13] During the Soviet Union period the Soviet Championship League was the premier ice hockey league. After the fall of communism it was followed by the Russian Superleague and then the Kontinental Hockey League. [14]