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History of hockey in Russia

30 декабря 202130 дек 2021

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USSR The birthday of hockey in Russia is 22nd of December 1946, when the first matches of the first USSR hockey matches were played in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Kaunas and Arkhangelsk. The first meeting with this game was at the end of 1932, when the team of the German workers' union "Fihte" arrived in Moscow. The guests brought with them clubs and pucks to Soviet athletes, unusual ammunition, and invited to play some several friendly games. And students of the Moscow Institute of PE in February 1946 demonstrated hockey games at the Dynamo stadium, 9 months before the all-Union hockey premiere. In the spring of 1953, at the LIHG congress, the Soviet hockey federation was admitted to this international organization. A year later, having made their debut at the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm, Soviet hockey players won gold medals. Already the first meeting with the Canadians ended with the victory of the Soviet athletes - 7: 2. This victory brought the USSR national team the first

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The birthday of hockey in Russia is 22nd of December 1946, when the first matches of the first USSR hockey matches were played in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Kaunas and Arkhangelsk.

The first meeting with this game was at the end of 1932, when the team of the German workers' union "Fihte" arrived in Moscow. The guests brought with them clubs and pucks to Soviet athletes, unusual ammunition, and invited to play some several friendly games. And students of the Moscow Institute of PE in February 1946 demonstrated hockey games at the Dynamo stadium, 9 months before the all-Union hockey premiere.

In the spring of 1953, at the LIHG congress, the Soviet hockey federation was admitted to this international organization. A year later, having made their debut at the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm, Soviet hockey players won gold medals.

Already the first meeting with the Canadians ended with the victory of the Soviet athletes - 7: 2. This victory brought the USSR national team the first world title, the Soviet team took the leading position in world hockey. The true heroes of that tournament were goalkeepers Nikolai Puchkov and Grigory Mkrtychan, defenders Alfred Kuchevsky, Dmitry Ukolov, Alexander Vinogradov, Pavel Zhiburtovich, Genrikh Sidorenkov, forwards Vsevolod Bobrov, Viktor Shuvalov, Alexey Guryshev, Yuri Krylov, Mikhail Bychkov, Alexander Uvarov, Val Evgeny Babich, Nikolay Khlystov, Alexander Komarov. Almost the same team won Olympic gold in 2 years.

In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014, the Russian national team won the World Cup without losing a single meeting at those tournaments - in 2008 and 2009, Canada was defeated in the final matches (5: 4 in overtime and 2: 1), in 2012 and 2014 - Slovakia and Finland with a score of 5: 2.