Barys Astana Hockey Club Barys ( kk, Барыс хоккей клубы , translit=Barys Hokkei Kluby), also referred to as Barys Astana or HC Barys, is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is one of the founding members of the Kon ...

is a

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team based in

Astana Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...

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. They play in the

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of the Eastern Conference in the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

(KHL). The team founded in 1999. Barys is owned by

Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kazakhstan Temir Joly (KTJ; kk, Қазақстан Темір Жолы, Qazaqstan Temır Joly (QTJ)), also National Company Kazakhstan Temir Joly, is the national railway company of Kazakhstan. Organization Founded by the government in 2002 as ...

(Kazakhstan Rail Ways),

Nurlan Orazbayev Nurlan Sairanuly Orazbayev ( kk, Нұрлан Сайранұлы Оразбаев; born June 5, 1968) is a former Kazakh professional ice hockey player, who played for Avtomobilist Karagandy, Bulat Temirtau and Barys Astana. Orazbayev served a ...

is their president, Vadim Gusseinov is their

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Andrei Nazarov Andrei Viktorovich Nazarov (russian: Андрей Викторович Назаров; born May 22, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and head coach of HC Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly manag ...

is their

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and

Brandon Bochenski Brandon Louis Bochenski (born April 4, 1982) is an American former professional ice hockey player and politician. He played 156 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for several teams before serving as captain of Barys Astana in the Kontinenta ...

is the team captain. There have been 11

es for the team. The Barys's first head coach was Nikolai Myshagin, who coached for four seasons.

Alexander Vysotsky Alexander Anatolyevich Vysotsky (russian: Александр Анатольевич Высоцкий, born July 24, 1968) is a former Kazakhstani professional ice hockey player, who played for Kazakhstan National Hockey Team. Vysotsky is the gr ...

is the first Barys head coach to have won the major trophy. He guided Barys to

Kazakhstan Hockey Championship The Pro Hokei Ligasy formerly known as ''Republic of Kazakhstan Open Ice Hockey Championship'' ''( kk, Шайбалық хоккей бойынша Қазақстан Республикасының ашық чемпионаты, russian: Откры ...

win in 2007. He is also coached the team at those inaugural season in the

, however was replaced by

Andrei Shayanov Andrei Viktorovich Shayanov (russian: Андрей Викторович Шая́нов, born June 1, 1968) is a Kazakhstani-Russian professional ice hockey coach. He currently serves as assistant coach at Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey Le ...

in mid-season. On June 4, 2013,

Ari-Pekka Selin Ari-Pekka Selin (born May 17, 1963) is a former professional ice hockey player and coach. During the 2013–2014 season, he coached both Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team. He ...

signed a 2-year contract and announced as a new head coach of Barys for 2013–14 KHL season. On June 18, 2014, the KHL reported that Andrei Nazarov would move from

Donbass Donetsk Hockey Club Donbass ( uk, Хокейний Клуб Донбас; russian: link=no, Хоккейный Клуб Донбасс, '' tr. Hokeinyi Klub Donbas'') is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey team based in Druzhkivka, currently playing in th ...

to become the new head coach at Barys, replacing Ari-Pekka Selin who had been sacked as coach of the

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on June 11 for unsatisfactory result in the

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Key

Coaches

Notes

* A running total of the number of coaches of Barys. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.

References

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