Hockey in pre-revolutionary Russia, the USSR and modern Russia. Gold medals of the Olympiads and World Championships.
In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not cultivated. Attempts by some sports clubs to join the new game led to the fact that in the distant 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League (LIHG), created three years earlier. However, the puck did not get widespread, and the All-Russian Hockey Union soon left LIHG.
After 1917, ball hockey (Russian hockey, aka "bandy") was especially popular in our country. Moreover, there were even women's hockey teams. The puck was played sporadically, mainly by students of physical culture universities who studied this sport as part of the curriculum. Ice hockey did not receive its development in 1932, when hockey players of the German Workers' Sports Union played several matches in the USSR. Our team, which included bandy players, beat the guests from the Fitkhe club with a score of 3: 0.
Here is what the journal "Fizkultura i Sport" (1932, No. 9) wrote about the new game at that time: “The game has a purely individual and primitive character, is very poor in combinations and in this sense does not stand up to any comparison with" bandy ". The question whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative …"
The starting point in the development of domestic ice hockey is the decision of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports to hold the USSR championship draw in the 1946-47 season.
In the early years, the organization of the competition was carried out by the All-Union Hockey Section, and since 1959 - by the Ice Hockey Federation, which united bandy and ice hockey, which in 1967 was divided into the Ice Hockey Federation (ice hockey) and the Bandy and Field Hockey Federation.
On April 1, 1952, the hockey organization of the Soviet Union joined the LIHG, which has been called IIHF since 1978.
On December 22, 1946, the first USSR ice hockey championship started in Moscow, Leningrad, Kaunas, Riga and Arkhangelsk. The first goal was scored by the playing coach of the capital "Dynamo" Arkady Chernyshev. Already on January 26, 1947, the country's first ice hockey champion was determined. The gold medals were won by the Dynamo (Moscow) hockey players.
Domestic hockey developed by leaps and bounds. A big event in 1948 was the international matches of Soviet hockey players, then under the flag of the Moscow national team, with the Czechoslovakian team LTZ (Prague). The guests included the players who formed the backbone of the national team of their country, which had won gold medals at the World Championship a year earlier (albeit in the absence of the Canadians, the founders of hockey, at that tournament in Prague). Those distant friendly matches showed that our hockey players can not only oppose the world's leading teams on equal terms, but also outplay them. In the first game on February 28 on the ice of the Central Stadium "Dynamo" the Muscovites won 6: 3. Soviet hockey players were distinguished by their excellent skating technique and high-speed play. And this is not surprising - most of them went through the field hockey school, and some still continued to combine performances in both sports.
In 1949, for the first time, the title of "Honored Master of Sports" was awarded to a hockey player. It was Anatoly Tarasov.
The next season was marked by two events: on February 18, 1951, the Krylia Sovetov team (Moscow) became the first winner of the USSR Cup; "Hockey". Its author was Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov.
In the 1951-52 season. in the USSR, the first television reportage about a hockey match was carried out.
1954 - the phenomenal triumph of Russian hockey in the debut world championship. For the first time participating in competitions of this rank, held on the ice of Sweden, the Soviet Union national team, led by its unsurpassed leader Vsevolod Bobrov, became the champion, defeating the Canadians in the decisive match - 7: 2. Bobrov was the first of our hockey players at tournaments of this level to be recognized as the best striker. The national team was coached by Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev and Vladimir Kuzmich Egorov.
1956 - the golden debut of Russian hockey at the Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy). Together with the Olympic gold medals, Soviet hockey players won the highest awards of the World and European Championships. Vladimir Egorov, Anatoly Tarasov and Arkady Chernyshev were awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR established in the same year. In the same season, the first artificial ice skating rink in our country, the Sokolniki summer skating rink, was commissioned in Moscow.
On November 3, 1956, the Sports Palace in Luzhniki (Moscow) was opened, which for many years was the main hockey arena of the Soviet Union. From February 24 to March 5, 1957, the first ice hockey world championship was held in our country. On the Moscow ice, the USSR national team, without losing a single match, won only silver medals. In the decisive meeting with the Swedes, our hockey players only needed a victory. After two periods, the hosts were leading 4: 2. In the third twenty minutes of this dramatic game, the Scandinavians scored two goals, achieved a draw, and with it gold medals.
1957 - Vsevolod Bobrov was awarded the highest state award of that time (the Order of Lenin).
In 1961, for the first time, a provincial team won the medals of the USSR championship. The silver was at the Gorky "Torpedo", at the gate of which Viktor Konovalenko shone.
The ice hockey tournament as part of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck (Austria) ended with the victory of Soviet hockey players.
On December 8, 1964, the most popular children's hockey tournament for the prize of the Golden Puck club was born, and in March 1965 their first All-Union final took place in Moscow. It was these competitions that gave the national hockey many "stars" who shone on ice arenas all over the world. The inspirer of these competitions for our children and the president of the club until the last days of his life was Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov.
On January 1, 1965, the title of "Master of Sports of the USSR of International Class" was established. The first was awarded to the hockey players of the Soviet national team, who once again won the World Championship in Finland.
On March 15-24, 1967 in Yaroslavl, an international tournament of junior teams of eight countries was held for the first time, which became the predecessor of the European Junior Championships (the first of which took place at the turn of 1967 and 1968 in Finland). Our team became the champion for the first time a year later - at the second continental championship in Germany.
November 30, 1967 - the first international tournament for the Prize of the Izvestia newspaper started on the Luzhniki ice.
1968 year. In Grenoble, France, the USSR national team wins Olympic gold medals for the third time and at the same time takes the lead in the European Championship.
On October 10-12, 1969, CSKA hockey players in Klagenfurt (Austria) successfully debuted in the final of the 4th European Cup, having won this honorable trophy after victories over the local Klagenfurt (9: 1, 14: 3).
In February 1972, the USSR national team once again won Olympic gold in Sapporo, Japan. This was the last competition in which the main team of our country was headed by Chernyshev and Tarasov. Vitaly Davydov, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin and Anatoly Firsov become three-time Olympic champions.
September 2, 1972 The first Super Series 72 match with Canadian ice hockey professionals. The overwhelming success of the Soviet team led by Vsevolod Bobrov. NHL legends are defeated 7-3.
On March 31 - April 15, 1973, the Ice Hockey World Championship was hosted by Moscow for the second time. The competition ended with an unconditional victory for the USSR national team.
In the 1973-74 season. For the first time, three referees began to play the matches of the national championship: the chief referee and two assistants, and the first unofficial world championship among youth teams was held in Leningrad, which ended with the victory of the hosts. In the spring of 1974, a portrait of a foreign specialist was placed in the Hockey Hall of Fame (Toronto, Canada) for the first time. It was Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov. Next to the portrait are the words: “Anatoly Tarasov is an outstanding hockey theorist and practitioner who made a huge contribution to the development of world hockey. The world should thank Russia for donating Tarasov to hockey."
In September-October 1974, the USSR national team successfully played a series of eight matches against the Canadian national team, formed from professional stars of the World Hockey Association (WHA).
In December 1975 - January 1976, the first super series took place between the club teams of the USSR and the NHL. CSKA and Krylya Sovetov in a difficult struggle proved to be stronger than overseas hockey players.
In February 1976, the USSR national team, after winning an exciting and dramatic match with Czechoslovakia, once again became the winner of the hockey tournament as part of the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck (Austria). However, at the 76 World Championship in Katowice, Poland, Soviet hockey players were content with only silver medals.
In September 1976 the first international tournament "Canada Cup" was held. Our country was represented by an experimental team led by Viktor Tikhonov, which failed to reach the final.
December 1976 - for the first time overseas professionals, represented by the Winnipeg Jets team, took part in the traditional tournament for the prize of the Izvestia newspaper.
December 27, 1976 - January 2, 1977 the Soviet Union national team won the first official world championship among youth teams.
At the 77th World Championship in Vienna, the USSR national team won only bronze. Organizational conclusions were not long in coming. On the post of her senior coach Boris Kulagin was replaced by Viktor Tikhonov.
1978 year. The USSR national team in a difficult struggle on the Prague ice regains the title of world champions.
November 10, 1978 Vyacheslav Starshinov ("Spartak") was the first of our hockey players to score his 400th goal in the national championships.
February 8-11, 1979 - the USSR national team won the Challenge Cup. In a series of three matches, she emerged victorious over the NHL team, made up of the strongest hockey players in this league. In the decisive match, Soviet hockey players defeated their rivals - 6: 0.
March 14-27, 1979 - Moscow hosted the World Championship for the third time. An enchanting game of the USSR national team and another gold medal.
Misfire of Soviet hockey players at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. In the decisive match, ours unexpectedly lost to the hosts of the competition - the US national team.
September 1981 - the victory of the USSR national team at the Canada Cup. In the final, Maple Leaves were defeated with a score of 8: 1.
February 1984 - the victory of Soviet hockey players at the Olympics in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia). Legendary goalkeeper Vladislav Tretyak becomes Olympic champion for the third time.
April 1986 - Moscow hosted the fourth world championship. The national team of the Soviet Union became the strongest on the planet for the twentieth time.
February 1987 a series of two matches "Rendezvous-87" between the national teams of the USSR and the NHL. The results are 3: 4, 5: 3.
February 1988 - the victory of the Soviet hockey team at the Olympics in Calgary (Canada).
1989 CSKA under the leadership of Viktor Tikhonov became the champion of the country for the 12th time in a row. The beginning of the mass departure of our hockey players overseas.
1990 year. The hegemony of the Moscow army on the hockey throne in the country has been violated, having won 32 times, including 13 seasons in a row. The gold medals of the USSR championship were won by the hockey players of the Moscow Dynamo. CSKA won the European Champions Cup for the 20th time. According to the results of the overseas season, Sergey Makarov (Calgary Flames) was recognized as the best NHL rookie. He was the first domestic hockey player to receive the individual prize of this North American league.
1991 year. For the first time since 1951, CSKA found itself outside the prize-winners of the national championship. The USSR championship, which started in the fall of 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December, ended in the spring of 1992 as the CIS championship.
Season 1992-93 - the International Hockey League (MHL) was organized. The first national championship under its auspices was held with the participation of 19 clubs representing Russia, 2 - Kazakhstan and 1 each - Belarus, Latvia and Ukraine.
1993 year. At the World Championships in Germany, the Russian team under the leadership of Boris Mikhailov won gold medals, twenty-third in the history of Russian hockey, and the first under the tricolor Russian flag.
1994 year. For the first time, the gold medals of the country's champions were won by a non-Moscow club - Lada (Togliatti). The Russian Olympic Committee decided to develop women's hockey in the country. In September, the Russian women's team played its first match.
1996 year. The first national championship among women has come to an end, the victory in which was won by the athletes of the Luzhniki team (Moscow). The first goal of the tournament was scored by E. Besshaposhnikova. The European Women's Championship was held in Yaroslavl. The Russian national team, which made its debut in a tournament of this rank, won silver medals, losing first place to Swedish athletes.
The Russian Hockey League (RHL) was created, replacing the MHL. The RHL included clubs representing the cities of the Russian Federation.
In December of the same year, the last 34th European Cup was held. The victory was won by the Lada hockey players (Togliatti).
December 1997 The traditional tournament for the Izvestia Prize was replaced by the Baltika Brewing Company Cup, which was held for the first time in Moscow.
February 1998 - Professional hockey players from the NHL took part in the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano (Japan) for the first time. The Russian national team led by Vladimir Yurzinov won silver medals.
February 1999 - the first victory of the Russians in the Euroleague. Hockey players of Metallurg (Magnitogorsk) distinguished themselves.
National championships from the 1999-2000 season. began to be held under the auspices of the Professional Hockey League (PHL), which replaced the RHL.
On December 10, 1999 in Novokuznetsk for the first time in Russia the All Stars match took place.
February 2000 - the second victory of Metallurg (Magnitogorsk) in the last Euroleague tournament so far.
April 29 - May 14, 2000 - St. Petersburg hosted the World Championship. The hosts of the tournament, represented mainly by NHL players, took only 11th place.
2001 - the Russian women's ice hockey team won the world championship medals (bronze) for the first time. Only the representatives of Canada and the USA were ahead of the Russian girls.
2001-2002 season - for the first time a Russian club (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) was headed by a foreign specialist. The debut was successful. In April 2002, Czech Vladimir Vuytek led the Yaroslavl team to gold medals in the Russian championship. For the first time, the highest level legionnaires took part in this tournament. Repeated world champions Czechs Vlasak, Patera and Prohazka defended the colors of Omsk Avangard.
January 2002- victory of the Russian youth team at the World Youth Championship under the leadership of Vladimir Plyushchev. This is the eleventh gold medal for the youth team of our country.
February 2002 - the Russian team took 3rd place at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (USA). Only representatives of the NHL went on the ice as part of our team.
May 2002 - after a nine-year break, Russian hockey players won medals at the world championships. Having lost to the Slovaks in the final, the Russians were content with silver.
January 2003 - the youth team of Russia in a dramatic match with the hosts of the tournament snatched victory, and with it the gold medals (twelfth in a row) of the world championship on ice, Canadian Halifax. Rafail Ishmatov was the head coach of the winners.
April 2003 - for the second time in a row (for the first time in the post-Soviet history of hockey) the title of the champion of Russia was won by the hockey players of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv and again under the leadership of Vladimir Vuytek.
March 2004 - on the eve of the half-century anniversary of the first victory of the national team of our country at the world championships, it was decided to create the Hall of Fame of Russian hockey - the first among all sports in Russia.
April 2004 - the Russian junior team (up to 18 years old) under the leadership of head coach Valery Bragin, having won the final of their peers from the United States, won gold medals at the World Championship, held in Minsk (Belarus).
April 24 - May 9, 2004 - World Championship in the Czech Republic (Ostrava, Prague). The Russian national ice hockey team remained outside the prize-winners of the world championship, taking 7th place.
August 30 - September 14, 2004 - World Cup. The Russian team, led by Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, lost to the US team in the quarterfinals.
December 16 - 19, 2004 - The Russian national team became the winner of the Moscow stage of the Euro Hockey Tour "ROSNO Cup".
December 2004 - HC "SKIF" (Moscow) became the silver medalist of the first European Cup among women's teams.
December 25, 2004 - January 4, 2005 - The Russian youth team led by Sergei Gersonsky won silver medals at the World Championship held in the USA (Grand Fox, Seaf River Falls).
January 2005 - the champion of Russia "Avangard" (Omsk), having beaten the Finnish club "Karpyat" in the final, won the title of winners of the European Champions Cup.
January 2005 - Dynamo Moscow hockey players took 2nd place in the IIHF Continental Cup.
April 2005 - Five years later, Dynamo Moscow won the gold medals of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship.
April 22 - 24, 2005 - The Russian national team under the leadership of Vladimir Krikunov for the first time in the history of Russian hockey became the absolute winner of the Euro Hockey Tour, beating the Swedish team in two final matches.
April 30 - May 15, 2005 - World Championship in Austria (Vienna, Innsbruck). Russian hockey players finished in third place, confidently beating the Swedish national team.
December 2 - 4, 2005 - HC "SKIF" (Moscow) became the bronze medalist of the European Champions Cup among women's teams.
December 15 - 18, 2005 - For the second year in a row, the Russian national team won the main prize of the Euro Hockey Tour home stage ROSNO Cup, which was held in Moscow.
December 2005 - Metallurg Magnitogorsk under the leadership of Dave King became the winner of the Spengler Cup European hockey tournament, defeating the second team of Canada in the decisive match.
December 26 - January 5, 2006 - World Youth Championship in Canada (Kamloops, Kelowna, Vancouver). Sergei Mikhalev's wards won silver medals for the second year in a row.
January 2006 - For the first time in its history, Dynamo Moscow won the European Champions Cup in St. Petersburg.
January 2006 - HC Lada (Togliatti) won the Continental Cup for the first time in the history of Russian hockey.
February 10 - 26, 2006 - Olympic Games in Italy (Turin). The Russian national team led by Vladimir Krikunov took fourth place in the main hockey tournament of the four years, losing in the match for third place to the Czech hockey players.
April 2006 - Kazan "AkBars" under the leadership of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov became the champion of Russia in hockey.
May 2006- Having become the winners of the "Swedish Hockey Games" the day before, Russian hockey players defended the title of the strongest team at Erohokkeytour.
May 5 - 21, 2006 - Ice Hockey World Championship in Latvia (Riga). After the bronze world championship in Austria, the Russian national team remained only in fifth place.
The forward of the Russian national team Alexander Ovechkin became the first player in the history of world hockey to be included in the symbolic teams at the Olympic tournament (Italy) and the World Championship (Latvia) in the same year.
From the 2006/07 season all All-Russian ice hockey competitions are held by the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.
November 19 - 21, 2006 - the Russian women's youth ice hockey team (under 18) made its international debut. The first tournament in the history of the Russian team was the "Tournament of the Four", which took place in Moscow.
December 5 - 10, 2006 - HC "Tornado" (Moscow Region) won silver medals at the European Champions Cup among women's club teams.
December 14 - 17, 2006 - the Russian national team became the winner of the Euro Hockey Tour home stage for the third year in a row, which since 2006 has been called the Channel One Cup.
January 5, 2007 - the Russian youth team led by Evgeny Popikhin won silver medals at the World Championship in Sweden. For the third year in a row, the final meeting of the Russian and Canadian teams ended, alas, not in favor of our hockey players.
January 14, 2007 - HC "Ak Bars" (Kazan) defeated the Finnish KHK in the European Cup final - 6: 0. Thus, for the third year in a row, the European Cup remains in Russia.
January 27, 2007 - the Russian student team won the silver medal at the World Universiade held in Italy. In the final, our hockey players lost to the founders of hockey - 1: 3.
February 9 - 11, 2007 - the Russian junior team born in 1991 under the leadership of Vladimir Plyushchev made its debut in the first international competitions "Tournament 4" (in Finland), in which the Russian juniors became the third.
February 19, 2007 - the Russian women's youth team (under 18) took second place at the IIHF Invitation Tournament and won the right to compete in the first ever women's ice hockey world championship among youth teams.
February 24, 2007 - Having won all international tournaments in the season, the Russian junior team (under 17) ended the hockey year with another significant success, becoming the winner of the Youth Olympic Festival in Spain.
April 10, 2007 - The Russian women's team at the World Championships in Winnipeg took seventh place, winning the consolation round of the tournament.
April 13, 2007 - Metallurg Magnitogorsk became the Russian ice hockey champion, defeating HC Ak Bars (Kazan) in the final series.
April 21, 2007 - becoming the winners of three of the four stages of the Euro Hockey Tour and securing a place in the overall standings, Vyacheslav Bykov's wards lost to the Swedish national team in the final matches (2: 3, 2: 4) and became silver medalists of the unofficial European championship.
April 22, 2007 - the Russian junior team led by Miskhat Fakhrutdinov won the world champion title, beating the USA team in a tense and interesting match - 6: 5.
May 13, 2007 - The Russian national team won bronze medals at the World Championship in Moscow. Having lost the Finnish national team 1: 2 in overtime in the semifinals, the Russian hockey players left no chances for the Swedish team in the match for third place - 3: 1.
August 27, 2007 - the Russian junior team (under 17) won the Riga Cup.
September 2, 2007 - the Russian junior team (up to 16) became the winner of the European Trophy international tournament.
September 3, 2007 - the Russian youth team won the Tournament of 4 in Tyumen.
November 11, 2007 - the Russian national team became the winner of the Karjala Cup.
November 11, 2007 - the Russian junior team (up to 17 years old) became the winner of the "Tournament of 4", held in Dmitrov, near Moscow.
November 24, 2007 - the Russian junior team (up to 16 years old) became the winner of the International Cup of the "President's Sports Club" in Belarus.
December 16, 2007 - the Russian national team won the Channel One Cup.
January 5, 2008- the Russian youth team led by head coach Sergei Nemchinov won the bronze medal at the World Youth Championship in the Czech Republic. In the match for the third place, our team defeated their peers from the USA - 4: 2.
January 6, 2008 - Russian team "Ak Bars" (Kazan) won the Continental Cup.
January 13, 2008 - HC Metallurg (Magnitogorsk) defeated Czech Sparta in the European Cup final - 5: 2, and became the last winner of this trophy, played in St. Petersburg for four years.
February 7 - 11, 2008 - the Russian junior team (up to 16 years old) under the leadership of Vladimir Kryuchkov became the winner of the international "Tournament of 4 nations" in Sweden
April 11, 2008 - for the first time in its history, the Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" became the champion of Russia, having beaten the Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" in the final series.
April 15 - 19, 2008 - the Russian youth team led by Sergei Nemchinov won the international "Tournament of 4 nations" in Tyumen.
April 20, 2008 - The Russian national team, having won the "Ceska Poiishtovna" tournament, took first place in the Euro Hockey Tour.
Olympic gold medals
- 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy)
- 1964 - Innsbruck (Austria)
- 1968 - Grenoble (France)
- 1972 Sapporo, Japan
- 1976 - Innsbruck (Austria)
- 1984 Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)
- 1988 - Calgary (Canada)
- 1992 - Albertville (France)
World championships gold medals
- 1954 - Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy) *
- 1963 - Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1964 - Innsbruck (Austria) *
- 1968 - Grenoble (France) *
- 1965 Tampere (Finland)
- 1966 - Ljubljana (Yugoslavia)
- 1967 Vienna (Austria)
- 1969 - Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1970 - Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1971 - Bern, Geneva (Switzerland)
- 1973 - Moscow (USSR)
- 1974 - Helsinki (Finland)
- 1975 - Munich, Dusseldorf (Germany)
- 1978 - Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- 1979 - Moscow (USSR)
- 1981 - Stockholm, Gothenburg (Sweden)
- 1982 - Helsinki, Tampere (Finland)
- 1983 - Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Munich (FRG)
- 1986 - Moscow (USSR)
- 1989 - Stockholm, Södertälje (Sweden)
- 1990 - Bern, Friborg (Switzerland)
- 1993 Munich, Dortmund (Germany)
- 2008 - Quebec (Canada)
