The Russian men's national ice hockey team (russian: Сборная России по хоккею с шайбой) is the national men's

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team of Russia, overseen by the

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. As of 2021, they were rated third in the

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. The team has competed internationally from 1992 until a 2022 ban, and is recognized by the

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as the successor to the

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team and CIS team. Russia has been one of the most successful national ice hockey teams in the world and a member of the so-called " Big Six," the unofficial group of the six strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with

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, the

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, and the

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. The European nations of the Big Six participate in the

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, which Russia won nine times since 2005. Since September 2021, the head coach is

Alexei Zhamnov Alexei Yuryevich "Alex" Zhamnov (russian: Алексей Юрьевич Жамнов; born October 1, 1970) is the current head coach of the Russia men's national ice hockey team and former professional ice hockey centre who played in the Nation ...

, who took over from Valeri Bragin. Since the establishment of the team, Russia has participated in 29

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tournaments and nine Olympic ice hockey tournaments, winning five world championships and one Olympic gold medal. After the

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, the

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suspended Russia from all levels of competition on February 28, 2022. In April 2022, the Federation banned Russia from participating in the 2023 IIHF World Championship.

History

Origins

The Allrussian Hockey League was founded by some clubs in the

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and entered the

(IIHF) in 1911. However, probably due to misunderstandings ("hockey" was identified with

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or Russian hockey in Russia, not with the modern ice hockey rules developed in Canada) the Russian team left the organization. There were no matches involving a team from Imperial Russia. Interest in this sport grew in the

in the 2nd half of the 1940s. The first reactions were skeptical; one sports journal, ''Physical Culture and Sports'', characterized it as such: "The game is quite individual and primitive, with few combinations, not as in bandy. Therefore, Canadian hockey should not be cultivated into our country..." However, Canadian hockey became more and more popular in the Soviet Union. The first Soviet Championships League was introduced in 1946. The national team was formed shortly after, playing their first matches in a series of exhibitions against

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in 1948. In 1952, the Hockey Federation of the USSR joined the International Ice Hockey League, and so received the permission to play in the

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and the

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. That year is seen as the birth of the Soviet national ice hockey team, the predecessor team of the Russia men's national ice hockey team. The Soviets won the 1954 Ice Hockey World Championships, and two years later they won gold at the

1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...

. From then until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, the "Red Machine" (russian: Красная Машина; ''Krasnaya Mashina'') was one of the most dominant teams in international play, winning nearly every World Championship and Olympic tournament, as well as defeating many teams with professional players, such as in the

1974 Summit Series The 1974 Summit Series was the second of two competitions between Soviet and Canadian professional ice hockey players, following the same format as the 1972 Summit Series, with four games across Canada and four in Moscow. The Soviet team won the ...

, the

Super Series The Super Series were exhibition games between Soviet teams and NHL teams that took place on the NHL opponents' home ice in North America from 1976 to 1991. The Soviet teams were usually club teams from the Soviet hockey league. The exception w ...

, and the

1981 Canada Cup The 1981 Labatt Canada Cup was the second best-on-best ice hockey world championship and involved the world's top six hockey nations. Tournament games were held in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. The Soviet Union national ice hockey team ...

. Until 1977, professional players were not able to participate in the World Championship, and it was not until 1988 that they could play in the Winter Olympics. The Soviet team was populated with amateur players who were hired by Soviet enterprises ( aircraft industry, food workers, tractor industry) or organizations (

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Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

) that sponsored what would be presented as an after-hours social sports society hockey team for their workers but were set-up for the athletes to train full-time. This type of amateur player was contested by Canada and the United States whose best players were participating in professional leagues.

After the USSR's dissolution

The Soviet Union dissolved shortly before the

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, so a Unified Team largely consisting of the former Soviet republics competed instead. The

CIS national ice hockey team The CIS national ice hockey team was an ephemeral national ice hockey team that represented the Commonwealth of Independent States. Essentially the former Soviet team under a different name, the CIS team existed in the few months between the dis ...

, consisting of 21 Russian players, 1 Lithuanian and 1 Ukrainian, competed as part of this Olympic delegation. The team finished second in its preliminary group, beating co-favorites Canada, 5–4, but losing to Czechoslovakia, 3–4. The CIS team then defeated the Finns and Americans, 6–1 and 5–2, respectively. In the final, they played Canada again, winning 3–1 and claimed the gold medal. The team was coached by the Russian and former Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov. In later years, the IIHF recognized this gold medal as being won by the Russian national team, rather than by the CIS. However, the

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has not recognized Russia as the Olympic champions for this Winter Games. Russia joined the IIHF as an independent state on 6 May 1992, along with 10 other states, including seven other former Soviet republics. Unlike the others, which applied as new member states and had to begin playing at the bottom tiers of the World Championship, Russia was allowed to replace the Soviet Union in its position and was thus entered into the elite division for the 1992 World Championship. Russia's first actual games after the Soviet dissolution were a series of five friendly games between

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and

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, all taking place in April 1992, the debut game occurring on 12 April 1992 against Sweden and ending in a 2–2 draw. At the 1992 World Championship Russia finished first in its preliminary group but lost to Sweden in the quarterfinals, 2–0. They, however, won the next

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of the tournament, beating Germany, Canada, and Sweden in the playoffs and clinching their first title as Russia.

The post-Soviet drought

As the USSR fell apart, so did Russia's elite hockey program. At the

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they finished fourth overall, losing the bronze medal match to

. Russia also competed at the 1996 World Cup, the successor tournament to the

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, where the team lost in the semi-finals to the eventual winner, the

. At the

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, Russia won five consecutive games and reached the gold medal match, where they lost to the

, 0–1. During the drought in 1994, Russian journalist

Vsevolod Kukushkin Vsevolod Vladimirovich Kukushkin (russian: link=no, Всеволод Владимирович Кукушкин; born 3 May 1942) is a Russian journalist, writer and ice hockey administrator. He has written for ''Komsomolskaya Pravda'', TASS, RI ...

reported that "The people are upset. Russia is a nation of critics." He said the Russian team was struggling with finances to support training, no funding was received from the national level, and professional teams in Russia were struggling to stay afloat. He also reported that the Russian people were upset at losing the nation's best players to the

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, and not playing on the Russian national team.

The Russian resurgence

The Bykov period

After failing to win the gold medal between 1993 and 2007, the Russians restructured the national league as the KHL and hired the 1993 World Champion, Vyacheslav Bykov, as the head coach. Another 1993 champion, Sergey Fedorov, was named the team captain. Afterwards, Russia won the

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and

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World Ice Hockey Championships with perfect records, beating Canada in the finals two times in a row. The Russians would make another run in 2010, losing to the Czech Republic in the gold medal game. However, the disastrous 2010 Olympics and 2011 World Championships led to Bykov's removal.

Bilyaletdinov at the helm

Bykov was replaced with Bilyaletdinov, under whose leadership Russia won the 2012 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships with yet another perfect record, beating Slovakia, 6–2, in the gold medal game. However, as a result of the 2013 Championship and 2014 Olympic performances, Bilyaletdinov was replaced with Oleg Znarok.

The Znarok years

Znarok then led the Russians to the gold medal in the 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship after defeating Finland 5–2 in the final, with a perfect record. The 2014 tournament result set the most perfect records in the IIHF World Championships. For this accomplishment, the Russian team was honored in the Kremlin. Russia earned a medal in each subsequent tournament, including the silver medal in 2015 and the bronze medals in 2016 and 2017. The team also reached the semi-finals of the

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, losing to Canada, the eventual winner. In 2018, the

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was disqualified by the

for doping, but the Russian players were cleared to participate by the IOC under the

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as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) using professional Russian hockey players with no previous drug violations and a consistent history of drug testing. Like the rest of the Olympic hockey teams in 2018, the Russian team could not use NHL players due to the league's prohibiting player participation in the Olympics. As a result, the team relied on players from the KHL (15 from a reigning champion,

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, 8 from

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and 2 from

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). After a loss in their first game to Slovakia, the OAR team defeated Slovenia and the United States, qualifying for the quarterfinals. The team then defeated Norway and the Czech Republic to reach the finals. The team won the gold medal after a 4–3 overtime victory over the German team in the final. Kovalchuk and

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each won their first gold in their fifth Olympic appearance and together with Slava Voynov, were the only players with prior Olympic experience on the team. In its post-Olympics World Ranking, the IIHF considered the OAR team as the Russian team in its rankings. The IIHF considers this victory to be Russia's second gold medal in the Olympics, as they also attributed the 1992 Unified Team gold medal to Russia, however, the IOC does not attribute either of these results to Russia. After the Olympics, Znarok became a consultant for the Russian National Team. He retired as Russia's most decorated modern head coach, with a World Championship, an Olympic gold medal, and a Euro Hockey Tour victory.

Vorobiev as head coach

Ilya Vorobiev was hired as the interim head coach of the Russian national hockey team in April 2018 for the

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and the second half of

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. In the remainder of

, Vorobiev led the Russian team to a 1–5 record, following the 5–1 record of the Znarok-led team in the first half of 2017–18 Euro Hockey Tour, for the team to finish 6–6 on the season. At the 2018 World Championship, Russia finished second in its group and lost to Canada 4–5 in the quarterfinal, finishing sixth overall. Next season, Russia went 8–4 in the 2018–19 Euro Hockey Tour, winning the competition and went all the way to the semi-final at the 2019 World Championship, where it lost to Finland before beating the Czech Republic for the bronze. Following the World Championship, Vorobiev was dismissed and replaced with

Alexei Kudashov Alexei Nikolaevich Kudashov (russian: Алексей Николаевич Кудашов; born July 21, 1971) is a Russian former professional ice hockey Forward (ice hockey), forward and current head coach for HC Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental ...

Kudashov's realm

Kudashov went 3–6 at the 2019–20 Euro Hockey Tour before the 2020 IIHF World Championship was canceled due to the

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. Kudashov was sacked in June 2020 and replaced with Valeri Bragin, a coach of the Russia men's U20 team.

Bragin's team

Bragin proceeded to win the 2020–21 Euro Hockey Tour with a 10–2 record. At the

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, Russia went 6–1 in the group stage but then lost in the quarter-finals to Canada, which finished with a 3–4 record in the group stage but went on to win the tournament. Bragin was replaced by

in September 2021.

Zhamnov's team

With Zhamnov the Russian national team participated at the 2022 Olympics in

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(under the

flag and the moniker ROC), where they reached the second Olympic final in a row, losing to

1–2 and winning silver medals. After the

, the

suspended Russia from all levels of competition. In April 2022, the Federation banned Russia from participating in the 2023 IIHF World Championship. Despite the ban, the team will participate in the 2023 Channel One Cup, alongside Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

World Championship

World Cup

Euro Hockey Tour

The

(EHT) started in 1996 and is held every season between the quartet of European nations of the Big Six nations of ice hockey. The usual format is to have the teams play against each other four times, once in Finland, once in Russia, once in Sweden, and once in the Czech Republic. There are occasional deviations from the format if additional nations, such as Canada, are invited to compete. Russia has won the EHT nine times .

Euro Hockey Tour medal table

Tournament summary

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: ** Gold medal (

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) ** Silver medal ( 1998,

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) ** Bronze medal (

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) * Channel One Cup: ** Gold medal (

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) ** Silver medal (

) ** Bronze medal (

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) *

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: ** Gold medal (

) ** Silver medal (

) ** Bronze medal (

) * Czech Hockey Games: ** Gold medal (

, 2009 (April)) ** Silver medal (

, 2009 (September),

, 2013 (April), 2013 (August)) ** Bronze medal (

)

Russia's Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) Cup medal table

As of February 2022

Other tournaments

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: Gold medal (

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, 1993,

) *

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: Silver medal (

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) * Northern Lights Tournament: Bronze medal ( 1993)

Team

Current roster

Roster for the

. Head coach: Valeri Bragin

Coaching history

;Olympics *

– Viktor Tikhonov * 1998 – Vladimir Yurzinov (Pyotr Vorobyov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov) *

–

Viacheslav Fetisov Viacheslav Alexandrovich "Slava" Fetisov (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Фетисов, ''Vjačeslav Aleksandrovič Fetisov''; born 20 April 1958) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for HC CSK ...

(Vladimir Yurzinov,

Vladislav Tretiak Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak, Meritorious Service Decoration (Canada), MSM ( rus, links=no, Владислав Александрович Третьяк, p=trʲɪˈtʲjak; born 25 April 1952) is a Russian former goaltender for the Soviet Un ...

) *

– Vladimir Krikunov (Vladimir Yurzinov, Boris Mikhailov) *

– Vyacheslav Bykov (

Igor Zakharkin Igor Vladimirovich Zakharkin (russian: Игорь Владимирович Захаркин; born March 16, 1958, Bryansk, RSFSR, USSR) is a former head coach of Russian national hockey team. Honored coach of Russia. Head of the Department of ic ...

) *

– Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (Valery Belov, Dmitry Yushkevich, Igor Nikitin, Valeri Belousov, Vladimir Myshkin) *

– Oleg Znarok (Harijs Vītoliņš, Ilya Vorobiev, Rashit Davydov, Igor Nikitin,

) *

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– Alexei Zhamnov (

Sergei Fedorov Sergei Viktorovich Fyodorov (; born December 13, 1969) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). During his playing career, for which he is best known fo ...

Sergei Gonchar Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar ( rus, Серге́й Ви́кторович Гонча́р, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪdʑ ɡɐnʲˈtɕar; born 13 April 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and a former assistant coach f ...

) ;World Championships * 1993 – Boris Mikhailov ( Pyotr Vorobyov, Igor Tuzik, Gennady Tsygurov) *

– Boris Mikhailov (Pyotr Vorobyov, Igor Tuzik, Gennady Tsygurov) *

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– Boris Mikhailov (Pyotr Vorobyov, Igor Tuzik, Gennady Tsygurov) *

– Vladimir Vasiliev (Gennady Tsygurov, Viktor Tikhonov) *

– Igor Dmitriev (Boris Mikhailov, Igor Tuzik) * 1998 –

Vladimir Yurzinov Vladimir Yurzinov (born February 20, 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a retired ice hockey player who played as a centre in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Dynamo Moscow. He was inducted as a player into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Ha ...

(Pyotr Vorobyov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov) *

–

Alexander Yakushev Alexander Sergeyevich Yakushev (russian: Александр Серге́евич Якушев) (born January 2, 1947) is a former ice hockey player and coach for the Soviet Union. Born in Moscow, Soviet Union, Alexander Yakushev is best known to ...

(Pyotr Vorobyov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov) *

– Alexander Yakushev (Pyotr Vorobyov, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov) *

– Boris Mikhailov (Valeri Belousov, Vladimir Krikunov ) *

– Boris Mikhailov (Valeri Belousov, Vladimir Krikunov) *

– Vladimir Plyushchev (Alexander Yakushev, Nikolai Tolstikov) *

– Viktor Tikhonov *

–

Vladimir Krikunov Vladimir Vasilievich Krikunov (russian: Владимир Васильевич Крикунов, born March 24, 1950) is retired Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and former head coach of team Russia. He is currently a coach of the KHL club Din ...

(Vladimir Yurzinov, Boris Mikhailov) *

– Vladimir Krikunov (Vladimir Yurzinov, Boris Mikhailov) *

–

Vyacheslav Bykov Vyacheslav Arkadevich "Slava" Bykov (russian: Вячеслав Аркадьевич Быков, born 24 July 1960 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a former Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and a former head coach of the ...

(Igor Zakharkin) *

– Vyacheslav Bykov (Igor Zakharkin) *

– Vyacheslav Bykov (Igor Zakharkin, Valeri Bragin,

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 ...

) *

– Vyacheslav Bykov (Igor Zakharkin) *

–

Zinetula Bilyaletdinov Zinetula Khaidarovich "Bill" Bilyaletdinov (russian: Зинэтула Хайдарович Билялетдинов, tt-Cyrl, Зиннәтулла Хәйдәр улы Билалетдинев; born 13 March 1955) is a former Russian ice hockey ...

(Valery Belov, Dmitry Yushkevich, Igor Nikitin,

Vladimir Myshkin Vladimir Semenovich Myshkin (russian: Владимир Семёнович Мышкин; born June 19, 1955) is a Russian former ice hockey goaltender. He was a goaltender for HC Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team in the ...

) *

– Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (Valery Belov, Dmitry Yushkevich, Igor Nikitin, Vladimir Myshkin) *

–

Oleg Znarok Oleg Valerievich Znarok (russian: Олег Валерьевич Знарок, lv, Oļegs Znaroks; born 2 January 1963) is a Soviet-Latvian professional ice hockey player. In 2022, he was the head coach of Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey L ...

(

Harijs Vītoliņš Harijs Vītoliņš (Harijs Vitolinsh; born April 30, 1968) is a Latvian former professional ice hockey centre. After being selected twice in the NHL Entry Draft, Vītoliņš played eight games in the National Hockey League with the Winnipeg Jets ...

, Vladimir Fedosov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Zhdanov, Rashit Davydov, Oleg Kupryanov) *

– Oleg Znarok (Harijs Vītoliņš, Vladimir Fedosov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Zhdanov, Rashit Davydov, Oleg Kupryanov) *

– Oleg Znarok (Harijs Vītoliņš, Ilya Vorobiev, Rashit Davydov, Igor Nikitin) *

– Ilya Vorobiev (

, Anvar Gatiyatulin, Rashit Davydov, Igor Nikitin) *

– Ilya Vorobiev (Alexei Zhamnov, Anvar Gatiyatulin, Rashit Davydov, Igor Nikitin) *

– Valeri Bragin (Albert Leschov, Stefan Persson, Konstantin Shafranov, Alexander Titov) ;World Cup *

– Boris Mikhailov *

–

Uniform evolution

File:Russia national ice hockey team jerseys 1994 (WOG).png, 1994 Olympic jersey File:Russia national ice hockey team jerseys 1998-1999.png, 1998-1999 IIHF jerseys File:Russia national hockey team jerseys.png, former IIHF jerseys File:Russia national hockey team jerseys 2014.png, 2014-2018 IIHF jerseys File:Russia national hockey team jerseys - 2014 Winter Olympics.png, 2014 Olympic jersey File:Russian national team jerseys 2016 (WCH).png, 2016 WCH jersey File:Russia national ice hockey team jerseys 2018 IHWC.png, 2018–2021 IIHF jerseys File:OAR national ice hockey team jerseys 2018 (WOG).png, 2018 OAR Olympic jersey File:ROC national ice hockey team jerseys 2021 IHWC.png, 2021- IIHF jerseys File:ROC national ice hockey team jerseys 2022 (WOG).png, 2022 ROC Olympic jersey

Notes

References

External links

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History

Origins

After the USSR's dissolution

The post-Soviet drought

The Russian resurgence

The Bykov period

Bilyaletdinov at the helm

The Znarok years

Vorobiev as head coach

Kudashov's realm

Bragin's team

Zhamnov's team

Tournament record

Olympic Games

World Championship

World Cup

Euro Hockey Tour

Euro Hockey Tour medal table

Tournament summary

Russia's Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) Cup medal table

Other tournaments

Team

Current roster

Coaching history

Uniform evolution

See also

Notes

References

External links