The Commonwealth of Independent States national bandy team was the new name for the

Soviet Union national bandy team The Soviet Union national bandy team represented the Soviet Union in bandy. It was controlled by the Federation of bandy and field hockey USSR. Even if bandy was a popular sport domestically in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union did not com ...

after the dissolution of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

in December 1991. The team only existed in January and February 1992, playing games which the Soviet Union previously had been booked for. Its last appearance was at the

Russian Government Cup 1992 Russian Government Cup 1992 was played in Krasnojarsk during the period 28 January-2 February 1992. Sweden won the tournament. This was the first time the Russia national bandy team played, and the last time the Commonwealth of Independent States ...

on 28 January – 2 February 1992, where it was also playing against the new

Russia national bandy team The Russia national bandy team represents Russia in international bandy. There is a national team for men's competitions and a Russia women's national bandy team. This article deals chiefly with the men's national bandy team. Until 1991 there w ...

. Since then, the

Commonwealth of Independent States The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. ...

does not have a unified bandy team, as many of the member states of the commonwealth have set up their own national teams. There was also an equally short-lived youth team for the Commonwealth, taking part in the 1992

Bandy World Championship Y-23 The Bandy World Championship Y-21 is a Youth Bandy World Championship up to the age of 21 years. Usually, only the core bandy playing nations take part. The designation is sometimes given as U-21 instead of Y-23 or U-23, probably as a way to co ...

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Bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

Bandy in Russia