History of the USSR national hockey team. USSR national ice hockey team

Great USSR ice hockey team

TRETYAK Vladislav Alexandrovich (04/25/1952), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In the period from 1969 to 1984, he defended the gates of CSKA and the national team of the Soviet Union. Honored Master of Sports. He played more than 300 games with the USSR national team. World champion 1969,1970,1971,1973-1975,1978-1983, Olympic champion 1972 (Sapporo), 1976 (Innsbruck), 1984 (Sarajevo). As part of the CSKA team, he is a 12-time champion of the USSR. The rate of missed goals: 2.40 per game. Tretyak was recognized as the best hockey player in the country 5 times. He was the first European (in 1997) to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (in Toronto). He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Badge of Honor, and the medal For Labor Valor.

TSYGANKOV Gennady Dmitrievich (08/16/1947), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1966-1968 - in SKA (Khabarovsk), in 1969-1980 - in CSKA, in 1980 - in SKA (Leningrad). Champion of the USSR 1970-1973, 1975, 1977-1979, second prize-winner 1974, 1976. In the championships of the USSR - 362 matches, 52 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1973, 1977, finalist 1976. World champion 1971, 1973-1975, 1978, 1979, second prize-winner 1972, 1976, third prize-winner 1977. European champion 1973-1975, 1978, 1979, second prize-winner of the European Championship 1971, 1972, third - 1976, 1977. Champion of the OWG 1972 and 1976. In the World Cup and the OWG - 91 matches, 10 goals.

RAGULIN Alexander Pavlovich (05/05/1941), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1957 - in Khimik (Moscow), in 1957-1962 - in Khimik (Voskresensk), in 1962-1973 - in CSKA. Champion of the USSR 1963-1966, 1968 and 1970-1973. In the championships of the USSR - 427 matches, 60 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1966-1969 and 1973. World Champion 1963-1971 and 1973. European Champion 1963-1970 and 1973. Winter Champion Olympic Games 1964, 1968, 1972. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, two Orders of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Honor.

KUZKIN Viktor Grigorievich (07/06/1940), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1958-1976 in CSKA. Champion of the USSR 1959-61, 63-66, 68, 70-73 and 75. In the USSR championships - 530 games, 71 goals. USSR Cup Winner 1961, 66-69, 73. World Champion 1963-69 and 71. European Champion 1963-69. Olympic champion 1964, 68, 72. Viktor Grigoryevich Kuzkin was awarded two Orders of the Badge of Honor and the Order of Honor. In connection with the 50th anniversary of Russian hockey, he was awarded a special prize by the Russian Hockey Federation among the six best defenders of the country in history.

LUTCHENKO Vladimir Yakovlevich (01/02/1949), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1966-1981 - in CSKA. Champion of the USSR 1968, 1970-1973, 1975, 1977-1980, second prize 1967, 1969, 1974, 1976. In the championships of the USSR - 459 matches, 58 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1967-1969, 1973, 1977, 1979., finalist 1976. World champion 1969-1971, 1973-1975, 1978, 1979, second prize-winner 1972, 1976, third prize-winner 1977. European champion 1969, 1970, 1973 -1975 , 1978, 1979, second prize-winner of the European Championship 1971, 1972, third - 1976, 1977. Champion of the ZOG 1972 and 1976.

DAVYDOV Vitaly Semenovich (04/01/1939), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the USSR. From 1957 to 1973 he played for Dynamo Moscow. Silver medalist 1959, 60, 62-64, 71-72. World Champion 1963-1971. European Champion 1963-1970. Olympic champion in 1964, 1968, 1972. In 1967 he was recognized as the best defender of the World Championship. He coached the youth and youth team of the USSR (European Championship - 1976 and World Cup - 1977). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, "Badge of Honor", two medals "For Labor Valor", the Hungarian Order of Labor of the bronze degree. Currently Vice-President of HC "Dynamo" (Moscow).

ROMISHEVSKY Igor Anatolyevich (03/25/1940), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports (1968). Graduated from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute, candidate of technical sciences. In 1960-1961 - SKA Kuibyshev, in 1961-1972 - in CSKA. Champion of the USSR 1961, 1963-1966, 1968, 1970-1972, second prize-winner 1967, 1969, third prize-winner 1962. In the USSR championships - 350 matches, 50 goals. USSR Cup winner 1966-1969. World champion 1968-1971, second prize-winner 1972. European champion 1968-1970, second prize-winner 1971, 1972. Champion of the OWG 1968, 1972. In 1970-1974 he was a member of the Komsomol Central Committee. In 1975, Chairman of the Ice Hockey Federation of the RSFSR. Later he headed the Golden Puck club.

Vasiliev Valery Ivanovich

VASILYEV Valery Ivanovich was born on August 3, 1949, a Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1973). He began playing in 1961 in Gorky in the Dynamo boys team. Since 1967 in the team of masters "Dynamo" (M). Second medalist of the USSR championship 1971-1972, third medalist 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976. Played 312 matches, scored 35 goals. Finalist of the USSR Cup 1969, 1970, 1974.
4 times (1973-1976) included in the list of 6 and 7 times (1968-1976) 34 and 40 best hockey players of the season. World Champion 1970, 1973-1975. European Champion 1970, 1973-1975. Olympic champion 1972, 1976. Second medalist of the World Championship 1972, 1976 and European Championship 1972. Third medalist of the European Championship 1976, In 1973 recognized as the best defender of the championship. Played in these tournaments 63 matches, scored 10 goals. Champion of Europe among juniors in 1969. The second prize-winner of the championship in 1968. In 1968 he was recognized as the best defender of the tournament. Participated in matches with professional hockey players in the NHL and WHA in 1972, 1974, 1975/76. One of the best defenders of Soviet and world hockey. Physically strong, superbly built, skates well, maneuverable, excellent in power combat, skillfully joins the attack. Understanding the game and a perfect pass allow him to be the initiator of sharp counterattacks. He was awarded the medal "For Labor Valor" (1975).

KHARLAMOV Valery Borisovich (01/14/1948 - 08/07/1981), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports (1969). Multiple champion of the USSR (1968-79), Europe (1969-79), World (1969-71, 1973-75, 1978-79) and Olympic Games (1972 and 1976). He was one of the most successful hockey players, the top scorer of the 1971 USSR Championship (40 goals) and the 1972 Olympic Games (9 goals). In 1972 (together with A.I. Maltsev) and in 1973 the best hockey player of the year in the country. Cavalier of the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, "Badge of Honor" and many medals. Awarded with the badge of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League "Sports Valor". Died in a car accident near Moscow. He was buried at the Novokuntsevo cemetery.

VIKULOV Vladimir (07/20/1946), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1964 - 1979 in CSKA, in 1979 - in SKA Leningrad. Champion of the USSR 1966, 1968, 1970 - 1973, 1975, 1977. In the championships of the USSR - 520 matches, 283 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup - 1966 - 1969. World Champion 1966-1971, 1975. European Champion 1966-1970 and 1975. Champion of the OWG 1968 and 1972. Repeatedly became the best striker and the best sniper of the USSR championships.

MALTSEV Alexander Nikolaevich (04/20/1949), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1967-1983 he was a forward of HC Dynamo (Moscow). 9 times became the world champion and twice the Olympic champion. In 1970, 1972 and 1981 he was named the best forward of the World and European Championships. In 1970, 1971, 1978 he was included in the symbolic team of the world as the right edge of the attack, and in 1972 and 1981 as a central forward. He was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, "Badge of Honor", Honor, two medals "For Labor Valour".

FIRSOV Anatoly Vasilievich (1.02.1941-24.07.2000), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports, three-time Olympic champion, eight-time world champion, seven-time European champion, nine-time champion of the USSR. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1972), two Orders of the Badge of Honor (1965 and 1968).

Yakushev Alexander Sergeevich (01/02/1947), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports (1970), Honored Coach of the USSR, Honored Coach of Russia. Head coach of the Russian national team (1998-2000). Spartak player (Moscow, 1964-80). Two-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976), 7-time world and European champion (1967, 1969, 1970, 1973-75, 1979), 3-time champion of the USSR (1967, 1969, 1976), member of the legendary super series USSR - Canada 1972 of the year. In the championships of the USSR, he played 568 matches and scored 339 goals. In 2003, Alexander Yakushev was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was recognized as the best striker of the 1975 World Cup, the top scorer of the 1972 and 1974 World Cups, twice in 1974 and 1975 he was elected to the symbolic team of the World Cup.

MISHAKOV Evgeny Dmitrievich (02/22/1941), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. Since 1956, he played for Labor Reserves (Moscow), in 1959-1962 - for Lokomotiv, in 1962-1963 - for the team of Kalinin (MVO), in 1963-1974 - for CSKA. Two-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion, three-time European champion. (35 matches, 24 goals). Champion of friendly armies (1970). 8-time champion of the USSR. He spent about 400 matches in the USSR championships, scored 183 goals. Five-time winner of the USSR Cup. Listed six times the best players season. Champion of the 1st Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (1962). He worked as a senior coach at SKA (Sverdlovsk), SKA MVO (Lipetsk and Moscow), for two years he served as an assistant head of one of the departments in the Cheryomushkinsky district military registration and enlistment office in Moscow, in 1984-1991 he was a trainer-teacher at the AZLK sports club, in 1999 he was a coach for hockey players at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant ( Polyarnye Zori), in 2000 - Vice President hockey club"Siberia" (Novosibirsk). In 1994-1998, he repeatedly traveled to the United States to study under a contract with young hockey players. Three-time world champion among veterans, champion of the Olympic Games of veterans. He was awarded two medals "For labor prowess" (1968 and 1972).

PETROV Vladimir Vladimirovich (06/30/1947), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. Forward of the CSKA team; multiple champion of the USSR (1968 - 81). Repeated champion of Europe, the world (1969 - 81) and the Olympic Games (1972, 1976). One of the most productive players in domestic hockey (over 400 goals). Three times at the world championships he was the top scorer, at the 1973 world championship in Moscow he scored 18 goals (an absolute record). Three forwards: - Boris Mikhailov - Vladimir Petrov - Valery Kharlamov long years was not only the leader in CSKA and the national team, but also the leader in world hockey.

MIKHAILOV Boris Petrovich (10/06/1944), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. USSR champion 1968, 1970-1973, 1975 and 1977-1981, second prize-winner of the USSR championships 1969, 1974 and 1976. In the USSR championships - 572 matches, 428 goals, USSR Cup winner 1968, 1969, 1973 and 1977, finalist of the USSR Cup 1976 World champion 1969-1971, 1973-1975, 1978 and 1979, second prize-winner of the World Cup 1972 and 1976, third prize-winner of the World Cup 1977. European champion 1969, 1970, 1973-1975, 1978 and 1979, second prize-winner of the European Championship zer European Championship 1976 and 1977. Champion of the OWG 1972, 1976, second prize-winner of the OWG 1980. In the World Cup and the OWG - 120 matches, 108 goals ( best result). In 1981-1984 and 1992-1997 - the head coach of SKA (L and S-P) - the third winner of the MHL championship in 1994, since 1997 - the head coach of CSKA. Since 2000 -Main coach Russian team.

SHADRIN Vladimir Nikolaevich (06/06/1948), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. Forward of HC "Spartak" (1965-79). Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas. Gubkin. Olympic hockey champion in 1972 and 1976, champion of the USSR (1967, 1969, 1976), European champion (1970, 1973-1975), world champion (1970-1971, 1973-1975). USSR Cup winner 1970 and 71. Top scorer Olympic Games 1976. Now Shadrin is the Vice-President of the Mining and Chemical Complex "SPARTAK", the General Director of the Sokolniki Sports Palace.

ZIMIN Evgeny Vladimirovich (08/06/1948), Soviet athlete (hockey), Honored Master of Sports. In 1964-1965 - in Lokomotiv Moscow, in 1965-1974 - in Spartak Moscow, in 1974-1976 - in SKA MVO, in 1976-1977 - in Wings of the Soviets. Champion of the USSR 1967, 1969, second prize winner in 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973, third prize winner in 1972. In the USSR championships - 315 matches, 185 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1970, 1971. World champion 1968, 1969, 1971. European champion 1968, 1969., second prize-winner of the European Championship 1971. Champion of the OWG 1968 and 1972. In the World Cup and OWG - 19 matches, 7 goals. In 1984-1985 he was the head coach of Spartak. The author of the first puck thrown by our hockey players against Canadian professionals in 1972.

The USSR ice hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international ice hockey competitions. The USSR Ice Hockey Federation acted as the managing organization of the national team. Officially, within the framework of the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. For 39 years of its existence, the national team has been the strongest in the world. She took part in 34 world championships, 22 of which she won. She became a participant in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, 7 of which she won. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and the Olympic Games without a set of awards. At the same time, it should be noted that the success of the national team to some extent depended on the dubious nature of the amateur status of Soviet players: in the USSR, hockey, like all sports, was nominally amateur, unlike North Americans and Western Europeans. In 2008, on the eve of its 100th anniversary, the International Ice Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 specialists from 16 countries of the world in order to determine the symbolic hockey team of the world over the past 100 years, and according to the results of the survey, four out of six places in the world team went to hockey players of the USSR .
In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not particularly popular, but the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the international league ice hockey (under this name the International Ice Hockey Federation existed until 1978), but this step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country has not changed. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national game winter sport, the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what he wrote about new game at that time, the magazine "Physical Culture and Sport" (1932, No. 9): "The game is purely individual and primitive in nature, very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot be compared with" bandy ". The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ... ”The turning point in the development of ice hockey occurred in 1946, when the All-Union Committee for physical culture and sports decided to hold the first ice hockey championship of the USSR, and this decision gave impetus to the development of hockey throughout the country. The first international matches were played by Soviet hockey players, who played under the flag of the Moscow national team, in 1948 with the Czechoslovak team of the LTC (Prague). The match ended with the score 6:3 in favor of Muscovites. In 1952, higher sports guide countries decided to join the All-Union Ice Hockey Section in the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave the right Soviet athletes to compete at the World Championships, and the previous decision of 1951 to join Olympic Committee USSR in the IOC - and to participate in the Olympic hockey tournaments.

The Red Machine is the nickname of the USSR national ice hockey team. For the first time, they started talking about the "Red Machine" in the 1970s, when the USSR national team shone on both "hockey" continents. These words appeared in the American press, causing some displeasure among the players of the USSR national team: not everyone was satisfied with the comparison with robots.

But, really, how many of you know the history of the emergence of Soviet ice hockey? I don't think so, not many. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Simply, we loved and love this game so much that we didn’t even think about how, when and why the familiar ball was transformed into a puck.

And, frankly, my dahushim pushed me to learn the history of ice hockey in the USSR. Which I am very happy about.

And in fact, I already wrote about, talked about, found, but my hands did not reach to tell about how it all began. It's time to fix... Believe me, a very interesting story.

Only, just ended the Great Patriotic War. The country was reborn, grandiose plans were made and the shortest path to communism was determined. And among other things, we definitely needed to “give our sonorous names to all records.” Yes, the country that defeated fascism had to be faster, higher and stronger in everything.

By the way, do you know why our athletes did not participate in the 1948 Olympic Games? Yes, everything is simple. They thought at the top that we wouldn’t take enough gold, so they didn’t let us in.

Olympic principle “…. the main participation” is not for us.

And if, in Helsinki on Summer Olympics 1952 we went and flashed there to the fullest (if you are interested, read about our first Olympic champions), then in Oslo winter Games our athletes still missed. Hockey was to blame! More precisely, ice hockey, which was not just olympic view sports, but was very popular and victory in hockey was considered almost the most prestigious. However, we simply did not have such hockey before 1946.

Well, you yourself, you understand that without gold in this sport of the USSR, there was nothing to do either in St. Moritz (Switzerland) in 1948 or in Oslo (Norway) in 1952.

For reference. Canadians were the ice hockey champions of the 5th and 6th Winter Olympic Games.

Team Canada - Olympic champion in ice hockey. St. Moritz (Switzerland) 1948

Rather, the final birth.

The first attempt to be born was in 1932. There were even several meetings with the German Fichte club of the German Workers' Sports Union.

First there were two friendly matches (without spectators): the Moscow team - Fichte and Dynamo (Moscow) - Fichte. Muscovites won both with a devastating score. Then there were 3 official matches. The first took place on January 11, 1932, in which CDKA beat Fichte 3:0. And then the second team of Moscow dealt with the Germans twice 6:0 and 8:0.

What kind of hockey it was, it’s hard to imagine now, but judging by what Physical Culture and Sport wrote (No. 9, 1932), it was clear that we don’t need such hockey either:

“The game has a purely individual and primitive character, is very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot be compared with bandy. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ...»

And really, why? When the USSR already had its own, beloved by millions and even more Russian hockey - bandy, or as it was called "Bendy".

"Dynamo" Moscow - the first champion of the USSR in bandy 1932

So, for 13 years, ice hockey was forgotten.

However, time passed and the country's sports leadership decided to ignore the verdict of the weekly "Physical Culture and Sport". And already in 1945, the resolution of the Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, appeared:

"It is necessary to immediately put this Canadian hockey on Russian rails."

It was entrusted to bring it to life Sergey Alexandrovich Savin, who after the war served as head of the football and hockey department of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. And the car turned over. Although where to start was not clear. Lots of questions...

What is the point?
How to play (game rules)?
How to judge?
What and how to play?

But, the main one remained the same:

Will a foreign and alien game take root in a country where there is still its own, and still beloved by millions of bandy?

To the credit of Sergei Alexandrovich, the complexity of the project did not frighten him at all. On the contrary, he set to work with such enthusiasm that by the end of 1946 the first USSR ice hockey championship was held. However, everything is in order.

Travel to Latvia and ask what is Canadian hockey

And Savin went to Riga. In Latvia, where Canadian hockey was already fully cultivated, Savin received an invaluable gift - the rules of the game of overseas hockey translated into Russian. Already a small step to the Olympic podium!

Savin also took a stick, gloves, skates, several pucks and footage of pre-war newsreel of the Latvian championship to Moscow.

Live experiment. Real students play hockey

There is a beginning and it inspires. Here is such an elated Savin moved from theory to practice.

A very representative organizational meeting was immediately held. Judge for yourself, representatives of the Moscow, Leningrad and several republican sports committees, heads of departments sports games central councils of voluntary sports societies and departments, representatives of the educational and research institutes of physical education.

In addition, well-known coaches and players of Russian hockey. : Alexander Igumnov (Spartak), Arkady Chernyshev and Mikhail Yakushin (Dynamo).

All those present were introduced in great detail to the principle and essence of the new game. They were given to understand what broad opportunities it gives for the development of the Olympic movement.

I didn't have to explain twice. The opinion was unanimous: - We will try ...
However, the question: will the people accept, remained still open. Here we decided to "live experiment".

Any experiments, as you know, are best done on students, so they did.

From among the students of the State Central Institute of Physical Education, two teams were created, with which systematic work began to prepare them for exhibition matches.

The work was carried out very painstakingly. Photos and translations of articles from Canadian, Swedish and Czechoslovak newspapers and magazines were carefully studied. The masters of Russian hockey were invited, who in 1932 managed to taste the “puck” and who immediately appreciated it, despite the general negative.

Come on, let's take a look at the curiosity!

February 1946. Small stadium in Petrovsky park. The semi-final match of the second post-war USSR Cup in Russian hockey, in which two of our super clubs met - CDKA and Dynamo Moscow.

The match has just ended (CDKA won), but thousands of spectators do not disperse. Their attention was drawn to a radio announcement that a Canadian hockey demonstration game was about to take place. The reaction of the audience was mixed, some were skeptical, some enthusiastically welcomed, and most were just curious. In any case, all remained.

Stayed and weren't disappointed. The audience liked the new game. About what the audience informed the participants and organizers with grateful applause.

First USSR Ice Hockey Championship

Demonstration performances and the first “FOR” of the people are, of course, very cool. However, this is not enough for development. Any development requires competition. You need a competitive spirit.

This was well understood in the sports leadership and work began on organizing and holding the first USSR ice hockey championship.

Watching educational films
Newsletter of rules and regulations
Gatherings of players and coaches
Referee training
Workouts, workouts, workouts
…. first posters

And the tournament took place. Contrary to rather modest forecasts, applications were submitted by as many as 12 teams:

The draw was held in mid-November. All participants were divided into three preliminary groups:

"A" - TsDKA (Moscow), Air Force (Moscow), House of Officers (Sverdlovsk) and House of Officers (Leningrad);

"B" - "Spartak" (Moscow), "Dynamo" (Riga), "Dynamo" (Tallinn) and "Dynamo" (Leningrad);

"B" - "Dynamo" (Moscow), "Vodnik" (Arkhangelsk), Kaunas (national team), "Spartak" (Uzhgorod).

And the army teams of Moscow and Sverdlovsk were the very first to take to the ice. They played on the field of the Dynamo Small Stadium. In the presence of thousands of Muscovites, CDKA won 11:5.

From the memoirs of S.A. Savina

This match is still in front of my eyes. The guys, in my opinion, felt more like students than mature masters. Far from everything worked out during the duel: sometimes the puck obviously did not want to obey the players, it was as if tied to the ice - most of the athletes, especially those from Sverdlovsk, were not yet able to tear it off the surface. I'm not talking about the fact that no one had a clue about such things as power struggles, changes in the course of the struggle, etc. And yet, when, having completed the struggle, the teams left the field, all ten thousand fans watching duel, staged a hot, prolonged ovation. She was addressed this time not to any goalkeeper or forward, not even to any team, but to the game - a new game that these people liked and now acquired the rights of citizenship.

I won't go into details now about the first USSR championship. Let me just say that it was very interesting and kept the intrigue right up to the last meeting, which took place January 26, 1947. CDKA and Dynamo (Moscow) fought for the championship. Dynamo won 2:1. Here are the newsreels. Watch and rejoice.

It's good to see that, right? In any case, we now have an idea of what ice hockey was like in the bud.

Here he is the first champion of the USSR in ice hockey.

Have you noticed that Dynamo became the first champions of the USSR in both Russian and Canadian hockey? Let's rejoice for them...

Well, friends, that's all. A start was made. Then there was a second season and a third. Then they went international.

And studied, studied and studied again

And they learned. They learned to throw on top, they learned to win face-offs, they mastered power moves, they learned to think. In general, we learned to play in such a way that the people no longer had a question

Why do we need this Canadian hockey?

And in the press, instead of libelous articles, very interesting “debriefings” of matches began to appear, which are now a great pleasure to read. 🙂

Finally, my friends are specially posting a selection of newspaper reports from the USSR championship of the 1948-1949 season. Read, drive into the past! 🙂

Note …. 17 degrees below zero. Resistant still our fan

The USSR national ice hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international hockey competitions. The USSR Ice Hockey Federation acted as the managing organization of the national team. Officially, within the framework of the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. For 39 years of its existence, the national team has been the strongest in the world. She took part in 30 world championships, 19 of which she won. She became a participant in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, 7 of which she won. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and the Olympic Games without a set of awards. At the same time, it should be noted that the success of the national team to some extent depended on the dubious nature of the amateur status of Soviet players: in the USSR, hockey, like all sports, was nominally amateur, unlike North Americans and Western Europeans. In 2008, on the eve of its 100th anniversary, the International Ice Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 specialists from 16 countries of the world in order to determine the symbolic hockey team of the world over the past 100 years, and according to the results of the survey, four out of six places in the world team went to hockey players of the USSR .

In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not particularly popular, but the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League, created three years earlier (under this name, the International Ice Hockey Federation existed until 1978), but this step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country has not changed. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national game winter sport, the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what the magazine “Physical Culture and Sport” (1932, No. 9) wrote about the new game at that time: “The game is of a purely individual and primitive nature, it is very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot stand any comparison with“ bandy ”. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ... ”The turning point in the development of ice hockey occurred in 1946, when the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports decided to hold the first USSR ice hockey championship, and this the decision gave impetus to the development of hockey throughout the country. In 1952, the country's top sports leadership decided to join the All-Union Ice Hockey Section to the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave the right to Soviet athletes to compete in the World Championships, and the previous decision in 1951 on the entry of the USSR Olympic Committee into the IOC - and to participate in Olympic hockey tournaments.

Domestic hockey developed by leaps and bounds. In 1948, the international matches of Soviet hockey players, then under the flag of the Moscow national team, with the Czechoslovak team of the LTC (Prague) became a big event. The guests included players who formed the basis of the national team of their country, which won gold medals at the World Championship a year earlier (albeit in the absence of Canadians, the founders of hockey, at that tournament in Prague). Those distant friendly matches showed that our hockey players can not only compete on equal terms with the world's leading teams, but also outplay them. In the first game on February 28 on the ice Central Stadium Dynamo Muscovites won 6:3. Soviet hockey players were distinguished by excellent skating technique and high-speed play. And this is not surprising - most of them went through the school of bandy, 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. They became Anatoly Tarasov.

The next season was marked by two events: on February 18, 1951, the Krylya Sovetov team (Moscow) became the first owner of the USSR Cup, defeating the then national champion, the MVO Air Force, with a score of 4: 3 in the final, and readers saw the first Soviet book about hockey called "Hockey". Its author was Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov.

In the 1951-52 season. The first television report on a hockey match was made in the USSR.

1954 - a phenomenal triumph of domestic 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 team, led by its unsurpassed leader Vsevolod Bobrov, became the champion, defeating decisive match Canadians - 7:2. Bobrov was the first of our hockey players in tournaments of this level to be recognized as the best forward. The national team was coached by Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev and Vladimir Kuzmich Egorov.

1956 - the golden debut of domestic hockey at the Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy). Together with the gold medals of the Olympics, Soviet hockey players became the owners of the highest honors of the World Championship and the European Championship. Vladimir Egorov, Anatoly Tarasov and Arkady Chernyshev were awarded the title of Honored Trainer of the USSR established in the same year. In the same season, the first skating rink in our country was put into operation in Moscow with artificial ice- Sokolniki summer skating rink.

On November 3, 1956, the Palace of Sports 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 world ice hockey championship was held in our country for the first time. On the Moscow ice, the USSR national team, without losing a single match, won only silver medals. In the decisive duel with the Swedes, our hockey players needed only a victory. After two periods, the hosts of the championship were 4:2. In the third twenty minutes of this dramatic fight, the Scandinavians scored two goals, achieved a draw, and with it the 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 medals in the USSR championship. Gorky's "Torpedo" won silver, at the gates of which Viktor Konovalenko shone.

After a seven-year break in 1963 in Sweden, the Soviet Union team became the world champion. This victory marked the beginning of a nine-year hegemony on the world podium of our team. For the first time, the USSR national team was led by the duet Chernyshev-Tarasov.
The hockey tournament at 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 already in March 1965, their first All-Union final was held in Moscow. It was these competitions that gave national hockey many "stars" shining 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.

January 1, 1965 established the title of "Master of Sports of the USSR international class". The first to be awarded it were the hockey players of the Soviet national team, who once again won the World Championship in Finland.
March 15-24, 1967 in Yaroslavl was held for the first time international tournament teams of juniors from eight countries, which became the predecessor of the European Youth Championships (the first of which took place at the turn of 1967 and 1968 in Finland). The juniors of our team became champions for the first time a year later at the second championship of the continent in Germany.
November 30, 1967 - the first international tournament for the Prize of the Izvestia newspaper started on the Luzhniki ice.

1968 In French Grenoble, the USSR national team won gold medals for the third time. Olympic medals and at the same time excels in the European Championship.
On October 10-12, 1969, CSKA hockey players in Klagenfurt (Austria) successfully made their debut in the final of the 4th European Cup, having won this honorary trophy after defeating the local Klagenfurt (9:1, 14:3).
In February 1972, the USSR national team once again won Olympic gold in Japanese Sapporo. It was the last competition in which main team our country was headed by Chernyshev and Tarasov. Three-time Olympic champions are Vitaly Davydov, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin and Anatoly Firsov.
September 2, 1972 The first match of the Super Series-72 with Canadian hockey professionals. The stunning success of the Soviet team under the leadership of Vsevolod Bobrov. NHL legends defeated with a score of 7:3.

On March 31 - April 15, 1973, Moscow hosted the Ice Hockey World Championship for the second time. The competitions ended with the unconditional victory of the USSR national team.
In the 1973-74 season. For the first time, three referees began to conduct matches of the national championship: main judge and two assistants, and the first unofficial world championship among youth teams was held in Leningrad, which ended in victory for 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. They became Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov. Next to the portrait are the words: “Anatoly Tarasov is an outstanding hockey theorist and practitioner who has made a huge contribution to the development of world hockey. The world should thank Russia for giving Tarasov hockey.”

In September-October 1974, the USSR national team successfully played a series of eight matches with 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 "Wings of the Soviets" in a difficult struggle turned out 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 World Championship-76 in Katowice, Poland, Soviet hockey players were content with only silver medals.

In September 1976, the first international tournament "Cup of Canada" 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 WHA 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 became the winner of the first official world championship among youth teams.
At the World Championship-77 in Vienna, the USSR team won only bronze. Organizational conclusions were not long in coming. Viktor Tikhonov replaced Boris Kulagin as her head coach.
1978 The USSR national team in a difficult struggle on Prague ice regains the world title.
On 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 came out 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 Cup for the third time. Enchanting game of the USSR national team and regular gold medals.
Misfire Soviet hockey players at the Olympics-80 in Lake Placid. In the decisive duel, ours unexpectedly lost to the hosts of the competition - the US team.
September 1981 - the victory of the USSR national team at the Canada Cup. In the final, the 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 for the third time becomes Olympic champion.
April 1986 - Moscow hosted the fourth World Cup. The national team of the Soviet Union for the twentieth time became the strongest on the planet.
February 1987, a series of two Rendezvous-87 matches between the USSR and NHL teams. Results - 3:4, 5:3.
February 1988 - the victory of the Soviet hockey team at the Calgary Olympics (Canada).

1989 CSKA, under the leadership of Viktor Tikhonov, became the national champion for the 12th time in a row. The beginning of the mass departure overseas of our hockey players.
1990 The hegemony of the army team of Moscow on the hockey throne in the country, which won 32 times, including in 13 consecutive seasons, has been broken. Dynamo Moscow hockey players won the gold medals of the USSR championship. CSKA wins the European Cup for the 20th time. At the end of the overseas season the best newcomer NHL recognized Sergey Makarov (Calgary Flames). He was the first of the domestic hockey players to receive an individual prize from this North American league.
1991 For the first time since 1951, CSKA found itself below the line of winners of the national championship. The championship of the USSR, which started in the fall of 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December, ended in the spring of 1992 already as the championship of the CIS.
February 1992 - the national team of our country wins the Olympics for the 8th time. She already wins the gold medals of Albertville (France) under the name of the CIS team. Andrey Khomutov becomes a three-time Olympic champion. But this is no longer the USSR national team ... Another story began ...

Olympic awards
Hockey
Gold 1956
Bronze 1960
Gold 1964
Gold 1968
Gold 1972
Gold 1976
Silver1980
Gold 1984
Gold 1988

Sports awards
Ice Hockey World Championships
Gold Sweden 1954
Silver Germany 1955
Gold Italy 1956
Silver USSR 1957
Silver Norway 1958
Silver Czechoslovakia 1959
Bronze USA 1960
Silver Switzerland 1961
Gold Sweden 1963
Gold Austria 1964
Gold Sweden 1965
Gold Yugoslavia 1966
Gold Austria 1967
Gold France 1968
Gold Sweden 1969
Gold Sweden 1970
Gold Switzerland 1971
Silver Czechoslovakia 1972
USSR Gold 1973
Gold Finland 1974
Gold Germany 1975
Silver Poland 1976
Bronze Austria 1977
Gold Czechoslovakia 1978
USSR Gold 1979
Gold Sweden 1981
Gold Finland 1982
Gold Germany 1983
Bronze Czechoslovakia 1985
USSR Gold 1986
Silver Austria 1987
Gold Sweden 1989
Gold Switzerland 1990
Bronze Finland 1991

HALL OF FAME
BABICH Evgeny Makarovich
01/07/1921 - 06/11/1972 BOBROV Vsevolod Mikhailovich
01.12.1922 - 01.07.1979
BYKOV Vyacheslav Arkadievich
24.07.1960
BYCHKOV Mikhail Ivanovich
22.05.1926 - 17.05.1997
Vasiliev Valery Ivanovich
03.08.1949
VINOGRADOV Alexander Nikolaevich
28.02.1918 - 10.12.1988
GURYSHEV Alexey Mikhailovich
14.03.1925 - 16.12.1983
DAVYDOV Vitaly Semenovich
03.04.1939
ZHIBURTOVICH Pavel Nikolaevich
08.09.1925 - 21.02.2006
KOMAROV Alexander Georgievich
25.06.1923
KRYLOV Yury Nikolaevich
11.03.1930 - 00.00.1979
KUZKIN Viktor Grigorievich
06.07.1940
KUCHEVSKY Alfred Iosifovich
17.05.1931 - 15.05.2000
MAYOROV Boris Alexandrovich
attack
11.02.1938
MIKHAILOV Boris Petrovich
06.10.1944
MKRTYCHAN Grigory Mkrtychevich
03.01.1925 - 14.02.2003
Puchkov Nikolay Georgievich
30.01.1930 - 08.08.2005
RAGULIN Alexander Pavlovich
05.05.1941 - 17.11.2004
SIDORENKOV Genrikh Ivanovich
11.08.1931 - 05.01.1990
STARSHINOV Vyacheslav Ivanovich
06.05.1940
Tretyak Vladislav Alexandrovich
25.04.1952
UVAROV Alexander Nikolaevich
07.03.1922 - 24.12.1994
UKOLOV Dmitry Matveevich
23.10.1929 - 25.11.1992
Fetisov Vyacheslav Alexandrovich
20.04.1958
FIRSOV Anatoly Vasilievich
01.02.1941 - 24.07.2000
Khlystov Nikolay Pavlovich
10.11.1932 - 14.02.1999
KHOMUTOV Andrey Valentinovich
21.04.1961
EGOROV Vladimir Kuzmich
25.09.1911 - 09.06.1996
ZAKHVATOV Sergey Ivanovich
29.09.1918 - 29.12.1986
Kostryukov Anatoly Mikhailovich
07.07.1924
KULAGIN Boris Pavlovich
31.12.1924 - 25.01.1988
Tarasov Anatoly Vladimirovich
10.12.1918 - 23.06.1995
TIKHONOV Viktor Vasilievich
04.06.1930
CHERNYSHEV Arkady Ivanovich
16.03.1914 - 17.04.1992
EPSHTEIN Nikolai Semenovich
27.12.1919 - 06.09.2005
ALFER Vladimir Filippovich
10.03.1927 - 09.12.2003
BELAKOVSKY Oleg Markovich
06.09.1921
KOROLEV Yuri Vasilievich
19.06.1934
STAROVOYTOV Andrey Vasilievich
06.12.1915 - 23.03.1997
SYCH Valentin Lukich
21.09.1937 - 22.04.1997
KARANDIN Yury Pavlovich
22.03.1937
SEGLIN Anatoly Vladimirovich
08.08.1922

The USSR ice hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international ice hockey competitions. The USSR Ice Hockey Federation acted as the managing organization of the national team. Officially, within the framework of the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. For 39 years of its existence, the national team has been the strongest in the world. She took part in 34 world championships, 22 of which she won. She became a participant in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, 7 of which she won. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and the Olympic Games without a set of awards. At the same time, it should be noted that the success of the national team to some extent depended on the dubious nature of the amateur status of Soviet players: in the USSR, hockey, like all sports, was nominally amateur, unlike North Americans and Western Europeans. In 2008, on the eve of its 100th anniversary, the International Ice Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 specialists from 16 countries of the world in order to determine the symbolic hockey team of the world over the past 100 years, and according to the results of the survey, four out of six places in the world team went to hockey players of the USSR .
In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not particularly popular, but the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League, created three years earlier (under this name, the International Ice Hockey Federation existed until 1978), but this step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country has not changed. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national game winter sport, the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what the magazine “Physical Culture and Sport” (1932, No. 9) wrote about the new game at that time: “The game is of a purely individual and primitive nature, it is very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot stand any comparison with“ bandy ”. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ... ”The turning point in the development of ice hockey occurred in 1946, when the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports decided to hold the first USSR ice hockey championship, and this the decision gave impetus to the development of hockey throughout the country. The first international matches were played by Soviet hockey players, who played under the flag of the Moscow national team, in 1948 with the Czechoslovak team of the LTC (Prague). The match ended with the score 6:3 in favor of Muscovites. In 1952, the country's top sports leadership decided to join the All-Union Ice Hockey Section to the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave the right to Soviet athletes to compete in the World Championships, and the previous decision in 1951 on the entry of the USSR Olympic Committee into the IOC - and to participate in Olympic hockey tournaments.

It was not particularly popular, however, the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League, created three years earlier (the International Ice Hockey Federation existed under this name until 1978), but this the step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization.

In 1953, the USSR national team was preparing to participate in the World Cup, but the injury of the team leader Vsevolod Bobrov forced the Soviet leadership to refuse to participate. A year later, the USSR national team made its debut at the world championships and sensationally won the world title, even defeating the favorites from Canada. During the 1950s, a kind of hockey derby formed between the USSR and Canada, but the story changed in 1961, when the Canadians did win the gold medals. The USSR missed the next World Cup for political reasons: the GDR team was not allowed to the World Cup, since the US State Department refused to issue entry visas to players due to the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the teams of the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Romania joined the protest.

Until 1972, the USSR national team consistently won world championships. IIHF rules did not allow professional players to compete in the World Championships and the Olympics, which angered Canada, which boycotted the World Championships in 1970. In 1972, the Super Series took place between the USSR national team and the Canadian national team, and the latter was represented by star players from the NHL. 8 games have passed, 4 of which were won by the Canadian team (in last match Canadians pulled out a victory 34 seconds before the end), 3 - the USSR national team and one more game ended in a draw. In 1976, the USSR team suffered a sensational defeat from the Polish team at the start of the World Cup, losing 6:4.

In 1980, the USSR national team, which by that time had won 5 Olympics and 16 world championships, suffered another sensational defeat from the US team, which became known as the Miracle on Ice. The Americans, whose team was made up of students, outplayed the most experienced Soviet players with a score of 4: 3 and won gold medals - this was the second time that the USSR team did not win gold medals at the Olympics. In the 1980s Soviet hockey has undergone changes: against the backdrop of glasnost and democracy, criticism of the national team coach, Viktor Tikhonov, intensified, in addition, the players received the right to play in the NHL since 1989. Since 1992, the Russian national team has been considered the successor of the USSR national team.