Neftyanik Almetyevsk is an ice hockey team in Almetyevsk,

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. They play in the VHL, the Supreme Hockey League, which is the second level of Russian ice hockey.

History

The club was founded in 1965 as Sputnik. In 1986, they were renamed Neftyanik, Russian for oiler. In 2008, Neftyanik joined the Vysshaya Liga (VHL), and affiliated with

Ak Bars Kazan Hockey Club Ak Bars (russian: Ак Барс, tt-Cyrl, Ак Барс, en, Snow Leopard), also known as Ak Bars Kazan, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Kazan. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey ...

of the KHL.

Achievements

* Pervaya Liga champion: 1979. *Vysshaya Liga champion: 1994, 2000.

External links

Official site
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