The USSR national hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international hockey competitions. The governing organization of the team was the USSR Hockey Federation. Officially, within the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. Over the course of 39 years of its existence, the national team was the strongest in the world. She took part in 30 world championships, winning 19 of them. She took part in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, winning 7 of them. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and Olympic Games without a set of awards. It should be noted that the success of the team depended to some extent 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 Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 specialists from 16 countries to determine the symbolic world hockey team for the last 100 years, and according to the survey results, four out of six places on the world team went to USSR hockey players . 
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 did not have an impact on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country did not change. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national winter sport; the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what the magazine “Physical Culture and Sports” wrote about the new game at that time (1932 No. 9): “The game is of a purely individual and primitive nature, is very poor in combinations and in this sense does not withstand any comparison with “bandy”. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative...” A 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 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 in the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave the right Soviet athletes compete at the World Championships, and the previous decision in 1951 to enter Olympic Committee USSR in the IOC - and to participate in the Olympic hockey tournaments. 
Domestic hockey developed by leaps and bounds. A big event was in 1948 the international matches of Soviet hockey players, then under the flag of the Moscow team, with the Czechoslovak team of the LTC (Prague). The guests included players who formed the basis of their country's national team, which had won gold medals at the World Championships the year before (albeit in the absence of the Canadians, the founders of hockey, at that tournament in Prague). Those distant ones friendly matches showed that our hockey players can not only compete with the leading teams in the world on equal terms, but also outplay them. In the first game on February 28 on the ice of the Dynamo Central Stadium, the 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 bandy school, and some continued to combine performances in both sports.
In 1949, a hockey player was awarded the title of “Honored Master of Sports” for the first time. It was Anatoly Tarasov.
The next season was marked by two events: on February 18, 1951, the first winner of the USSR Cup was the Krylya Sovetov team (Moscow), which in the final defeated the then national champion, the MVO Air Force, with a score of 4:3, 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 carried out 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 the Canadians in the decisive match - 7:2. Bobrov was the first of our hockey players to be recognized as the best forward at tournaments of this level. The 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). Along with Olympic gold medals Soviet hockey players became winners of the highest awards of the World Championship and European Championship. Vladimir Egorov, Anatoly Tarasov and Arkady Chernyshev were awarded the title “Honored Coach of the USSR” established in the same year. In the same season, the first skating rink in our country with artificial ice– summer skating rink “Sokolniki”. 
On November 3, 1956, the Sports Palace was opened in Luzhniki (Moscow), 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 for the first time in our country. On the Moscow ice, the USSR national team, without losing a single match, won only silver medals. In the decisive match with the Swedes, our hockey players only needed a victory. After two periods, the championship hosts led 4:2. In the third twenty minutes of this dramatic match, the Scandinavians scored two goals, achieved a draw, and with it the gold medals. 
1957 – highest state award At that time, Vsevolod Bobrov was awarded the Order of Lenin.
In 1961, for the first time, a provincial team won medals at the USSR Championship. Gorky's Torpedo won silver, with Viktor Konovalenko shining in goal. 
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 for our team. The USSR national team was led for the first time by the Chernyshev-Tarasov duo.
The hockey tournament at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck (Austria) ended in victory for Soviet hockey players.
On December 8, 1964, the most popular children's hockey tournament for the Golden Puck club prize was born, and already in March 1965, their first All-Union final took place in Moscow. It was these competitions that gave domestic hockey many “stars” who shone on ice arenas around 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 “Master of Sports of the USSR” was established international class" The first to receive it were the hockey players of the Soviet national team, in Once again winners of the World Championships in Finland.
On March 15-24, 1967, it was held for the first time in Yaroslavl international tournament junior teams of 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 continental championship in Germany.
November 30, 1967 - the first international tournament for the Izvestia Newspaper Prize started on the Luzhniki ice. 
1968 In Grenoble, France, the USSR team won Olympic gold medals for the third time and at the same time excelled in the European Championship.
On October 10-12, 1969, CSKA hockey players in Klagenfurt (Austria) successfully debuted in the final of the 4th European Champions Cup, winning this honorable trophy after defeating the local Klagenfurt (9:1, 14:3).
In February 1972, the USSR team once again won olympic gold in Sapporo, Japan. These were latest competitions, in which the main team of our country was led by Chernyshev and Tarasov. Vitaly Davydov, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin and Anatoly Firsov become three-time Olympic champions.
September 2, 1972. The first match of the '72 Super Series with Canadian hockey professionals. The stunning success of the Soviet team under the leadership of Vsevolod Bobrov. The NHL legends were defeated with a score of 7:3. 
From March 31 to April 15, 1973, the World Hockey Championship was hosted by Moscow for the second time. The competition ended with the unconditional victory of the USSR team.
In the 1973-74 season. For the first time, matches of the national championship began to be conducted by three referees: the chief referee 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 for the first time in the Hockey Hall of Fame (Toronto, Canada). It 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 to 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 club teams of the USSR and the NHL. CSKA and Krylya Sovetov in a difficult struggle turned out to be stronger than the 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 at the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck (Austria). However, at the 76 World Championships in Katowice, Poland, Soviet hockey players were content with only silver medals.
In September 1976, the first international tournament, the Canada Cup, was held. Our country was represented by an experimental team led by Viktor Tikhonov, which failed to reach the finals.
December 1976 - for the first time, overseas professionals, represented by the WHA team “Winnipeg Jets,” 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 1977 World Championships in Vienna, the USSR team won only bronze. Organizational conclusions were not long in coming. Boris Kulagin was replaced as her senior coach by Viktor Tikhonov.
1978 The USSR national team, in a difficult struggle on the Prague ice, regains the title of world champions.
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 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 opponents - 6:0.
March 14-27, 1979 – Moscow hosted the World Championships for the third time. An enchanting performance by the USSR national team and yet another gold medal.
Misfire of Soviet hockey players at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. In the decisive match, our team unexpectedly lost to the hosts of the competition, the US team.
September 1981 – 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 - victory of Soviet hockey players at the Olympics in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia). Legendary goalkeeper Vladislav Tretyak for the third time becomes Olympic champion.
April 1986 – the fourth World Championship was hosted by Moscow. The Soviet Union team 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. Results – 3:4, 5:3.
February 1988 - Soviet victory hockey team at the Olympics in Calgary (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 of our hockey players overseas.
1990 The hegemony of the Moscow army team on the hockey throne in the country, which won 32 times, including 13 seasons in a row, has been broken. The gold medals of the USSR Championship were won by the Dynamo Moscow hockey players. CSKA wins the European Cup for the 20th time. Based on the results of the overseas season best newcomer Sergei Makarov (Calgary Flames) is recognized by the NHL. He was the first Russian hockey player to receive an individual prize in this North American league.
1991 For the first time since 1951, CSKA found itself behind the national championship medalists. 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.
February 1992 – our country’s team wins the Olympics for the 8th time. She is already winning gold medals in 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 has begun... 
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
Germany Gold 1975
Silver Poland 1976
Bronze Austria 1977
Gold Czechoslovakia 1978
USSR Gold 1979
Gold Sweden 1981
Gold Finland 1982
Germany Gold 1983
Bronze Czechoslovakia 1985
USSR Gold 1986
Silver Austria 1987
Gold Sweden 1989
Gold Switzerland 1990
Bronze Finland 1991
HALL OF FAME
BABICH Evgeniy 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 Yuri 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
KHLISTOV Nikolay Pavlovich
10.11.1932 - 14.02.1999
KHOMUTOV Andrey Valentinovich
21.04.1961
EGOROV Vladimir Kuzmich
25.09.1911 - 09.06.1996
ZAKHVATOV Sergei 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
EPSTEIN Nikolay 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
STAROVOITOV Andrey Vasilievich
06.12.1915 - 23.03.1997
SYCH Valentin Lukich
21.09.1937 - 22.04.1997
KARANDIN Yuri Pavlovich
22.03.1937
SEGLIN Anatoly Vladimirovich
08.08.1922
The USSR national ice hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international ice hockey competitions. The governing organization of the team was the USSR Hockey Federation. Officially, within the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. Over the course of 39 years of its existence, the national team was the strongest in the world. She took part in 34 world championships, 22 of which she won. She took part in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, winning 7 of them. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and Olympic Games without a set of medals. It should be noted that the success of the team depended to some extent 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 Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 experts from 16 countries to determine the symbolic world hockey team for the last 100 years, and according to the survey results, four out of six places on the world team went to USSR hockey players .
In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not particularly popular, but attempts by 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), however, this step did not have an impact on the popularity of the game, and Russia soon left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country did not change. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national winter sport; the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what the magazine “Physical Culture and Sports” wrote about the new game at that time (1932 No. 9): “The game is of a purely individual and primitive nature, is very poor in combinations and in this sense does not withstand any comparison with “bandy”. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative..." A turning point in the development of ice hockey occurred in 1946, when the All-Union Committee on 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. Soviet hockey players, performing under the flag of the Moscow national team, played their first international matches in 1948 with the Czechoslovak team LTC (Prague). The match ended with a score of 6:3 in favor of the Muscovites. In 1952, the country's top sports leadership decided to join the All-Union Ice Hockey Section in the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave Soviet athletes the right to compete at 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.
Washers: 60
Played in the national team: 1973 – 1983
Matches: 87
In his debut World Championship, he scored four goals in one match, scoring 10 goals at the end of the championship. He is the only hockey player to win the World Cup while playing for three different clubs - Krylya Sovetov (1974, 1975), CSKA (1978, 1979) and Spartak (1981, 1982, 1983). In 1976 he won the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck.
Washers: 64
Played in the national team: 1967 – 1979
Matches: 90
The tallest striker in the USSR national team (190 cm), he also had high technology. This combination was uncharacteristic for Soviet hockey players. During his career, he won the Olympic Games twice in 1972 and 1976, and also became a seven-time world champion (1967, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979). At the 1975 World Cup, held in Germany, he was awarded an individual prize - the best striker of the tournament.
Washers: 64
Played in the national team: 1961 – 1971
Matches: 78
He is one of the pioneers in the USSR in active play on the patch. He scored most of his goals from close range. He won gold at the World Championships nine times in a row (1963-1971), as well as gold at two Olympic Games (1964, 1968). The best striker of the World Cup - 1965, held in Finland.
Washers: 66
Played in the national team: 1964 — 1972
Matches: 67
The best striker of the Olympic Games and the World Cup in 1967, 1968 (the World Cup was held as part of the Olympic Games), and 1971, he had incredible power with a snap shot. He became the first hockey player in the USSR national team to use a stick with a curved hook, although before that it was believed that a player must wield the stick equally well on both sides. A. Firsov, with his play, was able to convince A. Tarasov (coach of the USSR national team) that a bent hook with strong impact allows you to more accurately guide the puck. After that, other players of the national team received permission to use such sticks. Firsov won three Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972) and became the world champion in ice hockey eight times (1964 - 1971).
Washers: 67
Played in the national team: 1978 — 1991
Matches: 123
He was able to repeat the achievement of A. Firsov, becoming the top scorer of the World Cup three times in a row (1983, 1985, 1986). Apart from the two of them, not a single hockey player in the world has become the top scorer of the world championships even twice in a row. At the disastrous 1985 World Cup for the USSR national team in Czechoslovakia ( bronze medals) was recognized as the best striker of the tournament. He is a two-time Olympic champion (1984, 1988) and an eight-time world champion (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990).
Washers: 68
Played in the national team: 1957 — 1968
Matches: 76
One of the most technical hockey players of his time, who invented innovative game elements. A. Tarasov called the attacking trio V. Alexandrov - A. Almetov - K. Loktev the first in Soviet hockey to play on an intuitive basis, which set an example for others. The forward with the USSR national team won the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and became a multiple world champion (1963-1968).
Washers: 84
Played in the national team: 1969 — 1981
Matches: 118
The first member of the legendary attack trio V. Kharlamov - V. Petrov - B. Mikhailov, presented in our rating. Won the scorers' race at 3 world championships (1973,1977,1979). The 34 points scored (18+16) at the home World Cup in 1973 remain a record to this day. In 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979 he was included in the symbolic World Cup team. Winner of two Olympic Games (1972, 1976) and nine-time World Cup winner (1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981).
Washers: 89
Played in the national team: 1969 — 1980
Matches: 123
The unofficial leader of the legendary trio had exemplary skating and a unique dribbling style, with an elusive movement forcing the defenders to part in front of him, opening the way for him to the goal. Among his teammates, he scored the least number of goals, while distributing a lot of assists. At the 1972 Olympic Games, Kharlamov played in the same attacking trio with Firsov and Vikulov, where he revealed his talent as a scorer, becoming the best in the tournament in points scored (16 (9+7)). Winner of the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976 and eight-time winner of the World Cup in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979. He was included in the symbolic World Cup team four times (1972,1973,1975,1976).
Washers: 94
Played in the national team: 1969 — 1983
Matches: 126
Possessed high speed, a sharp and well-aimed wrist throw. As a representative of Dynamo M (1967-1984) in the USSR national team, he played in 68 different combinations of attacking threes, playing in the positions of extreme left, right and center forward. At the same time, he was included in the symbolic World Cup team as a right (1970, 1971, 1978) and central (1972, 1981) forward. He is a two-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976) and a nine-time world champion (1969 - 1971, 1973 - 1975, 1978 - 1983). Three times he became the best forward of the World Cup (1970, 1972, 1981).
Washers: 109
Played in the national team: 1969 — 1983
Matches: 120
He is the most productive representative of one of the best trios in world hockey (M-P-H) at the Olympic Games and World Championships as part of the USSR national team. He became the first Soviet striker who provoked an opponent into forceful, contact hockey. He was distinguished by his special sporting audacity in front of the enemy's goal. He had natural speed. Thanks to his hard work, he achieved extreme endurance in training, which helped him in the second and third periods to distinguish himself in the goal of his opponents, who were exhausted by his maneuvers. Became the best sniper of the 1977 and 1978 World Cup, top scorer 1974. Winner of two Olympics (1972, 1976), and eight World Championships (1969 - 1971, 1973 - 1975, 1978, 1978).
P Note: statistical data are given for games in the USSR national team at the Olympic Games and World Championships. The website championat.com was used to prepare the material.
This is exactly how you can imagine famous Soviet hockey players. A short poem is attached.
The note reported that at the beginning of next year, Soviet people would be able to get acquainted with a new sport - Canadian hockey. Already in the winter of 1947, the first hockey championship took place in the USSR. Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow and the CDKA team reached the finals, and Anatoly Tarasov, forward of the MVO Air Force team, was named the best sniper of the championship (the first hockey legend in the USSR).
Many of the first hockey players continued to play football at the same time - this was the case in the biography of Anatoly Tarasov or Vsevolod Bobrov. By the way, it was Tarasov who became the first athlete awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports” in 1949.
Literally from the very beginning, hockey became one of the most beloved sports in the USSR. Serious passions were playing out around him. This was the case in the 50s, when the CDKA team was dispersed, and in the 70s, when the USSR-Canada super series became one of the priority points in the Cold War.
The best trio of Soviet hockey in the 40s and 50s was the Babich – Bobrov – Shuvalov trio, in the 60s – Konstantin Loktev, Alexander Almetov and Veniamin Alexandrov; Boris Mayorov, Vyacheslav Starshinov and Evgeny Mayorov; Vladimir Vikulov, Viktor Polupanov and Anatoly Firsov.
World Hockey Champions
In 1963, the Soviet Union national hockey team became the world champion and remained on this podium for 9 years, winning victory after victory at the world's largest tournaments, including the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck and 1968 in Grenoble and 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. After victories in the international arena, the title “Master of Sports of International Class” was established in the USSR.
On September 2, 1972, the brightest page in the history of Soviet hockey begins - the USSR-Canada super series starts, and already in the first match, Soviet hockey players defeat the NHL legends with a score of 7:3. The hero of the decade is the troika Mikhailov - Petrov - Kharlamov, which is replaced after the death of Valery Kharlamov by the famous Larionov quintuplet: Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Makarov, Vyacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov, some of whom were personally trained by Kharlamov. These names are legends of Soviet hockey, a measure and example, glory and pride for those who are not indifferent to Soviet hockey and its history.
In 1978, the coach of the USSR national team, Anatoly Tarasov, was forced to resign after the USSR national team won only bronze at the 1977 World Championships in Vienna - a prize-winning place, but regarded as shameful. A young coach, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, comes to take his revenge, and in 1978 the team again becomes the world champion.
In April 1986, the Soviet Union team became the strongest for the twentieth time. But already in February 1992, the former glory was waning. The team performs under the name of the CIS team and, although it wins Olympic gold medals in Albertville, the level of Soviet hockey is gradually declining.
Here's the story...
The USSR Hockey Federation annually approves lists of the country's 34 best hockey players. This list features three goalkeepers, ten defenders and seven forwards of each role: right, center and left. In this way, two teams of the best hockey players of the Soviet Union are determined. And indeed it is. Any of the hockey players named in the list necessarily played in the 1963/64 season in either the first or second national team.
More than a third (12) of the hockey players included in the list represent the national champion team - CSKA. Capital clubs are represented in the list by another 19 hockey players (Dynamo - 8, Spartak - 6, Lokomotiv - 4, Krylya Sovetov - 1). In addition, among the best there are two hockey players from Gorky’s Torpedo and one from the Elektrostal team.
The youngest among the strongest are Spartak's Viktor Yaroslavtsev (19 years old) and torpedo fighter Vyacheslav Zhidkov (21 years old). The most experienced are army men Konstantin Loktev (31 years old) and Leonid Volkov (30 years old). The tallest are army players Anatoly Drozdov (186 cm), Alexander Ragulin (185 cm) and Dynamo player Stanislav Petukhov (185 cm). The heaviest are Alexander Ragulin (100 kg) and Dynamo Vladimir Yurzinov (94 kg).
The first line-up of the team, made up of the “first numbers” in each position, would look interesting: goalkeeper Viktor Konovalenko (Torpedo), defenders Eduard Ivanov and Alexander Ragulin (CSKA); forwards - Konstantin Loktev (CSKA), Vyacheslav Starshinov (Spartak) and Anatoly Firsov (CSKA).
And finally, about the trainers and educators of the best of the best. Here are their names: Anatoly Tarasov (CSKA), Arkady Chernyshev (Dynamo), Vsevolod Bobrov (Spartak), Anatoly Kostryukov (Lokomotiv), Alexander Prilepsky (Torpedo), Alexander Vinogradov (Wings of the Soviets) and Nikolai Nilov (“Elektrostal”). All of them are former players of the leading Moscow clubs CSKA, Dynamo, Krylia Sovetov, Spartak and VVS.
Goalkeepers
1., Honored Master of Sports (Torpedo, Gorky). Year of birth: 1938. Height: 168 cm, weight: 76 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe.
2., Honored Master of Sports (Dynamo, Moscow). 1937, 177 cm, 76 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship.
3., master of sports (CSKA; until 1962 he played in the SKA team, Kalinin). 1939, 175 cm, 71 kg. Champion of the USSR.
Defenders
1., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA; until 1962 he played in the teams “Khimik”, Voskresensk, and “Krylya Sovetov”, Moscow). 1938, 177 cm, 82 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. IN Olympic tournament In 1964 he scored 5 goals, in the 1963/64 national championship - 2 goals.
2., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA; until 1962 he played in the Khimik team, Voskresensk). 1941, 185 cm, 100 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic tournament he scored 4 goals, in the national championship - 9 goals.
3., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA). 1940, 181 cm, 88 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic tournament he scored 2 goals, in the national championship - 5 goals.
4., Honored Master of Sports (Dynamo, Moscow). 1939, 170 cm, 71 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. In the Olympic tournament he scored 1 goal, in the national championship - 7 goals.
5., master of sports (CSKA; until 1962 he played in the teams “Wings of the Soviets”, Moscow, and SKA, Kalinin). 1939, 178 cm, 84 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the national championship he scored 2 goals.
6., master of sports (Torpedo, Gorky). 1943, 176 cm, 83 kg. In the national championship he scored 3 goals.
7., master of sports (CSKA; until 1957 he played in the SKA team, Kalinin); 1935, 180 cm, 86.5 kg. Champion of the USSR. In the national championship he scored 1 goal.
8., master of sports (Spartak, Moscow; until 1958 he played in the SKA team, Kalinin). 1937, 176 cm, 82 kg. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. In the national championship he scored 1 goal.
9., master of sports (Spartak, Moscow). 1941, 182 cm, 80 kg. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. He scored 4 goals in the national championship games.
10., master of sports (Lokomotiv, Moscow). 1937, 173.5 cm, 79 kg. In the national championship he scored 3 goals.
Right wingers
1., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA; until 1954 he played in the Spartak team, Moscow). 1933, 170 cm, 75 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic tournament he scored 6 goals, in the national championship games - 24 goals.
2., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA; until 1957 he played in the Torpedo team, Gorky). 1934, 166 cm, 69 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic Games he scored 6 goals, in the national championship - 5 goals.
3., Honored Master of Sports (Spartak, Moscow). 1938
172 cm, 72.5 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. In the Olympic tournament he scored 3 goals, in the national championship - 20 goals.
4., Honored Master of Sports (Dynamo, Moscow). 1937, 185 cm, 91 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. He scored 4 goals in the Olympic Games and 21 goals in the national championship.
5., master of sports (Lokomotiv, Moscow). 1940, 182 cm, 73 kg. He scored 21 goals in the national championship games.
6., master of sports (Dynamo, Moscow). 1940, 166 cm, 69 kg. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. He scored 9 goals in the national championship games.
7., master of sports (“Wings of the Soviets”, Moscow). 1941, 175 cm, 72 kg. In the national championship he scored 7 goals.
Center forwards
1., Honored Master of Sports (Spartak, Moscow). 1940, 175 cm, 81 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. He scored 8 goals in the Olympic Games and 34 goals in the national championship.
2., Honored Master of Sports (Lokomotiv, Moscow). 1937, 172 cm, 72 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. In the Olympic Games he scored 9 goals, in the national championship games - 7 goals.
3., Honored Master of Sports (Dynamo, Moscow). 1940, 183 cm, 94 kg. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. He scored 10 goals in the national championship games.
4., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA). 1940, 178 cm, 83 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic Games he scored 5 goals, in the national championship - 40 goals.
5., master of sports (Dynamo, Moscow; until 1964 he played in the teams SKA, Kalinin, and Elektrostal). 1937, 172 cm, 76 kg. In the national championship he scored 17 goals.
6., master of sports (Dynamo, Moscow; until 1959 he played in the Dynamo team, Novosibirsk). 1937, 180 cm, 80 kg. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. He scored 14 goals in the national championship games.
7., master of sports (CSKA; until 1962 he played in the SKA team, Leningrad). 1941, 186 cm, 81 kg. Champion of the USSR. He scored 14 goals in the national championship games.
Left wingers
1., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA; until 1961 he played in the Spartak team, Moscow). 1941, 177 cm, 75 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. In the Olympic tournament he scored 6 goals, in the national championship games - 34 goals.
2., Honored Master of Sports (CSKA). 1937, 178 cm, 77 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, world, Europe and USSR. He scored 7 goals in the Olympic Games and 39 goals in the national championship.
3., Honored Master of Sports (Spartak, Moscow). 1938, 176 cm, 73 kg. Champion of the Olympic Games, World and Europe. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. In the Olympic tournament he scored 7 goals, in the national championship games - 20 goals.
4., Honored Master of Sports (Dynamo, Moscow; until 1960 he played in the Lokomotiv team, Moscow). 1937, 176 cm, 76.5 kg. Second prize-winner of the USSR Championship. He scored 11 goals in the national championship games.
5., master of sports (Spartak, Moscow). 1945, 178 cm, 77 kg. Third prize-winner at the USSR Championship. He scored 17 goals in the national championship games.
6., master of sports (Lokomotiv, Moscow). 1937, 174 cm, 66.5 kg. He scored 25 goals in the national championship.
7., master of sports (Dynamo, Moscow; until 1962 he played in the Traktor, Chelyabinsk, and CSKA teams). 1936 176 cm, 73 kg. In the national championship he scored 19 goals.
The national hockey championship has already started. And in the picture you see how CSKA hockey players Igor Romishevsky, Anatoly Ionov and Evgeny Mishakov with a stick in their hands entered into a fight... no, not for the puck! This time they are engaged in a heated battle for a small ball, and not on the ice, but on the ground. This photo was taken back in mid-August, when the hockey players of the capital’s clubs began pre-season training. The training program included not only ice training and special technical training, but also weightlifting” gymnastics, acrobatics, running, jumping, throwing, football, basketball, rugby, water polo. There were also “hybrids”, such as this mixture of Canadian, Russian and grass hockey, and there were others that were equally original. Developing attentiveness, hockey players played on the basketball court with two balls at once - both football and basketball... All this diversity training exercises hockey players laid the foundation for future victories on ice fields.