Alevtina Pavlovna Polunina, (; born 9 February 1997) is a Russian

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player and member of the Russian national team. She most recently played with Tornado Dmitrov of the

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(ZhHL) in the 2019–20 season. Polunina represented Russia at the

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

, and

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, winning a bronze medal at the 2016 tournament, and at the

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, winning gold medals at both tournaments. She participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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with the Olympic Athletes from Russia team. As a member of the Russian national under-18 team, she participated in three

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during

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

, winning a bronze medal at the 2015 tournament. She made her debut in the Russian Championship league at age 16 with HC Tornado and has remained with the team throughout the entirety of her club career, from the 2013–14 RWHL season onward. With Tornado, Polunina is a three-time Russian Champion, three-time ZhHL All-Star, and was the league’s top

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scorer in the 2015–16 and 2017–18 seasons, scoring 29 goals and 23 goals in 24 games respectively. The birth of her first child prompted her to sit out the

2020–21 ZhHL season The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

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* * 1997 births Living people Russian women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Moscow HC Tornado players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Russia FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-icehockey-player-stub