Dynamo Alma-Ata (russian: Динамо Алма-Ата) was the bandy department of the sports club

Dynamo Alma-Ata Dynamo Alma-Ata (russian: Динамо Алма-Ата) was a multi-sports club from the then capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty in the Soviet era. The club participated in wrestling, gymnastics, athletics, water polo, bandy, and the most successful br ...

in Alma-Ata (now

Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of ...

) in

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at the time of the

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. The club was established in 1932 and disbanded in 1995, just some years after Kazakhstan became independent. In 1977 and in 1990, the club became Soviet national champions in

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 ...

. The club also won the silver in 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981 and the bronze in 1966, 1967, 1971, 1974, and 1983. In 1978, the club won the

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

, beating

Edsbyns IF Edsbyns IF, is a bandy team from Edsbyn in Ovanåker Municipality in Sweden founded on 6 June 1909. The bandy section of the club was founded as late as in 1925 was formally made a club of its own on 28 June 2000. Edsbyns IF has played in th ...

in the final.

Honours

International

: ** Winners (1): 1978

References

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