Energia Kemerovo (russian: Энергия Кемерово) was an ice hockey team in
Kemerovo
Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Ba ...
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Russia
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History
The club was founded in 1997 as HC Kemerovo and was renamed Energia Kemerovo a year later. In 2000, they made it to the promotion round of the
Vysshaya Liga and won promotion to the league by defeating
Motor Barnaul
Motor Barnaul (russian: Мотор Барнаул) was an ice hockey team in Barnaul, Russia.
History
The club was founded in 1959 as the successor club to Spartak Barnaul, which had been founded in 1954. In Soviet times, Barnaul participated in ...
three games to two in a best-of-five series. From 2001-2007, the club participated annually in the Vysshaya Liga.
The team withdrew from the Vysshaya Liga in the summer of 2007 as their home rink, SCC Oktiabrski, was undergoing renovations. Since then, they have only fielded junior teams.
External links
Official website
Ice hockey teams in Russia
Sports clubs disestablished in 2007