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11-825: Soviet Wings may refer to: Krylya Sovetov Moscow , ice hockey club that competes in the Russian VHL MHC Krylya Sovetov , former ice hockey club that competed in the Russian VHL and MHL Soviet Wings Sport Palace , home of the two above teams, in Moscow , Russia . Soviet Wings (IHL) , touring Russian ice hockey club that played in the International Hockey League for one season USC Soviet Wings , universal sports hall, it can also be used to host boxing matches, in Moscow , Russia . Topics referred to by

22-582: A new team, MHC Krylya Sovetov was created. PHC Krylya Sovetov played at the Minor Arena and Vityaz Ice Palace in Podolsk until 2010, when the team was reunited with MHC Krylya Sovetov and returned to the Soviet Wings Sport Palace. But after 2011, it was not able to continue to operate as a professional hockey club and withdrew from the championship on all levels. In 2016, the team returned to play in

33-517: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Krylya Sovetov Moscow HC Krylya Sovetov (Russian: ХК Крылья Советов ; Soviet Wings ) is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. The team played in the top divisions of Soviet and Russian hockey. In 2008, the team was expelled from the Soviet Wings Sport Palace and

44-636: The MHL . Krylya Sovetov Moscow (Wings of the Soviets, Soviet Wings) was founded in 1947 by the Krylya Sovetov sports society that represented Soviet aircraft industry. In 2008, the owner of the Soviet Wings Sport Palace , the All-Russia Institute of Light Alloys (VILS) (Russian: Всероссийский институт лёгких сплавов (ВИЛС ) accused Krylya Sovetov of overdue rent payments. This led to the subsequent eviction of

55-1872: The VHL , a newly created independent league that was supposed to replace Vysshaya Liga. After the KHL president Alexander Medvedev interfered in the conflict, the situation was settled and both teams reunited to play in the VHL starting with its 2010–11 season. Albeit due to financial hardship the club had to resign from the league in the next season. De facto Krylya ceased to exist as a professional team in 2011. [REDACTED] Soviet Championship League Championship (2) : 1957, 1974 [REDACTED] USSR Cup (3) : 1951, 1974, 1989 [REDACTED] European Cup (1) : 1974 [REDACTED] Spengler Cup (1) : 1979 [REDACTED] Ahearne Cup (2) : 1961, 1968 [REDACTED] Soviet Championship League Championship (4) : 1955, 1956, 1958, 1975 [REDACTED] Soviet Championship League Championship (9) : 1950, 1951, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1973, 1978, 1989, 1991 [REDACTED] IHL Championship (1) : 1993 [REDACTED] USSR Cup (2) : 1952, 1954 [REDACTED] Spengler Cup (1) : 1987 [REDACTED] Alexei Guryshev (1947–1961) [REDACTED] Alfred Kuchevsky (1949–1961) [REDACTED] Vladimir Petrov (1965–1967) [REDACTED] Alexander Sidelnikov (1967–1984) [REDACTED] Sergei Pryakhin (1979–1989) [REDACTED] Yuri Khmylev (1980–1991) [REDACTED] Viktor Gordiuk (1986–1992) [REDACTED] Alexander Korolyuk (1992–1997) [REDACTED] Alexei Morozov (1993–1997) [REDACTED] Alexander Frolov (2000–2002) [REDACTED] Anton Volchenkov (2001–2002) Soviet Championship League The Soviet Hockey Championship ( Russian : Чемпионат СССР по хоккею )

66-547: The amateur rules of the International Olympic Committee to retain their amateur status and compete in the Olympics . The league was dominated by Moscow-based teams, who won every title in the league's existence. Far and away the most dominant club in league history was HC CSKA Moscow , the famous "Red Army Team," which won 32 titles, including all but six from 1955 to 1989 and 13 in a row from 1976 to 1989. CSKA

77-458: The military or police. The teams were populated with amateur players who were actually full-time athletes hired as regular workers of a company ( aircraft industry , food workers , tractor industry ) or organization ( KGB , Red Army , Soviet Air Force ) that sponsored what would be presented as an after-hours social sports society hockey team for their workers. In other words, all Soviet hockey players were de facto professionals who circumvented

88-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Soviet Wings . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_Wings&oldid=1043408342 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

99-562: The team. The main team left under president Aleksandr Tretiak 's lead and took a name PHC Krylya Sovetov, but Krylya's hockey school, junior subsidiary teams, and other infrastructure opted to remain under the effective ownership of VILS. After playing one season in Vysshaya Liga , the VILS team decided to change its affiliation to the Junior League. While PHC Krylya Sovetov failed to qualify for

110-689: Was able to pull off such a long run of dominance because during the Soviet era, the entire CSKA organization was a functioning division of the Soviet Armed Forces via the Ministry of Defence. As all able-bodied Soviet males had to serve in the military, the team was thus able to draft the best young hockey players in the Soviet Union onto the team. All players were commissioned officers in the Soviet Army . There

121-1105: Was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union , running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia , instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy . Following the dissolution of the USSR , the league was temporarily renamed the CIS Championship in 1992. This organization was the direct predecessor of the International Hockey League ( Russian : Межнациональная хоккейная Лига ), and subsequent Russian Superleague (RSL) and current Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The Soviet Championship League began in 1946, with 12 teams playing 7 games each. Teams were based in Arkhangelsk , Kaunas , Leningrad , Moscow , Riga , Sverdlovsk , Tallinn and Uzhhorod , and eight of them were from

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