The Ice Hockey Federation of Russia (russian: Федерация хоккея России, ''Federatsiya Khokkeya Rossii'') is the

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overseeing

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in Russia. In 2019 Russia had 110,624 ice hockey players registered with its ice hockey federation. After the

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, the

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suspended Russia from all levels of competition.

History

The federation was founded on 12 November 1991, during the existence of the

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and the

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

, as the "Ice Hockey Federation of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic / Ice Hockey Federation of Russia" (russian: Федерация Хоккея Российской Советской Федеративной Социалистической Республики / russian: Федерация хоккея России). On 19 January 1992, after the Soviet Union was dissolved and Russia took over the international rights and obligations of the Soviet Union, the federation became the official successor of the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation and its successes and its full membership in the

. After the

, the

suspended Russia from all levels of competition.

National teams

Men

* Men's national ice hockey team * Men's national under-20 ice hockey team * Men's national under-18 ice hockey team

Women

* Women's national ice hockey team * Women's national under-18 ice hockey team

Leagues

Active

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

(KHL) – highest men's hockey league in Europe and Asia (since 2008) * Women's Hockey League (ZhHL) – top–tier women's hockey league in Russia and China (since 1995; reorganized in 2015) *

Supreme Hockey League The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league ...

(VHL) – second highest men's league (since 2010) * Supreme Hockey League Championship (VHL-B) – third highest men's league (since 2011) * Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH) – fourth highest men's league (since 2003) * Junior Hockey League (MHL) – men's junior league (since 2009) *

National Junior Hockey League The National Junior Hockey League (NMHL) (formerly Junior Hockey League Division B) (russian: Национальная молодежная хоккейная лига (НМХЛ)) is the second level of the Junior Hockey League, the KHL's junio ...

(NMHL) – men's junior league (since 2011)

Defunct

* International Hockey League – former highest men's league) (1992–1996) *

Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (russian: Чемпионат России Суперлига, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was consi ...

– former highest league (1996–2008) *

Russian Hockey Second League The Second League (russian: Вторая лига, Romanization of russian, translit. ''Vtoraya Liga'', also seen as RUS-4) was an ice hockey league in Russia. It was a fourth level league in the Russian ice hockey and it was divided into a two D ...

– fourth highest men's league

Notable leadership

Yury Karandin Yury Pavlovich Karandin (russian: Карандин, Юрий Павлович; born 22 March 1937) is a Russian retired ice hockey referee, and an active ice hockey administrator as of 2018. Karandin officiated for 26 seasons in the Soviet Uni ...

, president of the Siberia–Far East branch of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia since 1991 *

Yuri Korolev Yuri Nikolayevich Korolyov (russian: Юрий Николаевич Королёв; born 25 August 1962 in Vladimir) is a Soviet artistic gymnast who competed during the 1980s, winning many World and European Medals. Part of a deep Soviet team t ...

, vice-president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia from 1992 to 2001, and secretary general from 2001 to 2003 *

Andrey Starovoytov Andrei Vasilyevich Starovoytov (russian: Андрей Васильевич Старовойтов; 16 December 1915 – 22 March 1997) was a Soviet ice hockey administrator, referee and player. He won three Soviet ice hockey championships as a p ...

, general secretary of the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation from 1969 to 1986 *

Vladislav Tretiak Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak, MSM ( rus, links=no, Владислав Александрович Третьяк, p=trʲɪˈtʲjak; born 25 April 1952) is a Russian former goaltender for the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Considere ...

, president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia since 2006

References

External links

Official websiteIIHF profile
{{Sports governing bodies of Russia 1991 establishments in Russia

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Ice hockey in Russia

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Sports organizations established in 1991