Women's Basketball Club of Moscow Aviation Institute (студенческий женский баскетбольный клуб Московского авиационного института), also known as MAI was a basketball club based in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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History

The team was founded in 1945 on the basis of female student's sports club of the

Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (MAI; russian: Московский авиационный институт, МАИ) is one of the major engineering institutes in Moscow, Russia. Since its inception MAI has been spearhe ...

and participated in the first championship of the All-Union competition in 1945 where it won the silver medal, defeated in the final by

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. The following season (1945–46) MAI became national champion for the first time in its history, an achievement that repeated one year later. The next decade is critical to women's Soviet basketball: 4 times champion, 4 times silver medalist, winner of the USSR Women's Cup, winner of three championships of Trade Unions, and in 1956, five players of the teams were part of the champion I Games of the peoples of the USSR national team in Moscow.

Honours & achievements

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* Winners (5): 1945–46, 1946–47, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1954–55

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References

{{Reflist Basketball teams established in 1945