Federation of bandy and field hockey USSR (Russian: Федерация хоккея с мячом и хоккея на траве СССР) was the governing body for the sports of bandy and

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. The federation was governing these two sports since 1967, when

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

was split off to form the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation; ice hockey had only been introduced to the Soviet Union some twenty years earlier. The federation was one of the founding members of the

Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; french: Fédération internationale de bandy, russian: Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, sv, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing bo ...

in 1955. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, the federation was replaced by the All Russian Bandy Federation in early 1992. For field hockey, the

Russian Field Hockey Federation Russian Field Hockey Federation (russian: Федерация хоккея на траве России), is the governing body for field hockey in Russia. The federation is a member of the European Hockey Federation. The federation was created in ...

was created in its place. The following former states of the Soviet Union now have their own bandy federations: Russia (founded in 1992), Kazakhstan ( Kazakhstan Bandy Federation, 1993), Belarus ( Belarusian Bandy Federation, 1999), Estonia ( Estonian Bandy Association, 2002), Kyrgyzstan ( Bandy Federation of Kyrgyzstan, 2004), Latvia (

Latvia's Bandy Federation Latvia's Bandy Federation (Latvijas Bendija Federācija) is the governing body for bandy and rink bandy in Latvia. Its headquarters is in Mārupe Mārupe (german: Marienbach) is a town in and the centre of Mārupe Municipality, Latvia. Mārupe ...

, 2006), Ukraine (

Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation (Ukrainian: Українська федерація хокею з м'ячем та рінк-бенді (УФХМР)) known by the abbreviation, "UBRF", is the governing body for the sports of bandy and ...

, 2007), and Lithuania (

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, 2008).

National teams

Bandy

* men's team * women's team

Field hockey

* men's team * women's team

References

{{Sports governing bodies in the Soviet Union Bandy in the Soviet Union

Field hockey in the Soviet Union Bandy Former members of Federation of International Bandy