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The Russian Football Championship, or Russian Premier League, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. The competition is administered by the Russian Football Premier League. There are 16 teams in the competition. The league has three Champions League qualifying spots given to the top three teams at the end of the season and the two Europa League spots will be allocated to the fourth and fifth placed teams. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian National Football League at the end of the season.
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Russians ever in each of those sports.
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in the world, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold in 1984, 1988, and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.
PBC CSKA Moscow is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. CSKA won two titles between 2006 and 2008, in Europe's principal club competition, the EuroLeague, making the final in all four seasons, and has advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four 16 times in the 21st century.
The Traktor Ice Hockey Club, also known as Traktor commonly Traktor Chelyabinsk, is a professional ice hockey team based in Chelyabinsk, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Viktor Grigoryevich Shuvalov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Ruzayevka, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1953. He also played soccer in the Soviet Top League for VVS Moscow from 1950 to 1952.
The Russian Volleyball Super League is the top league of Russian volleyball. It was founded in 1992, and it is considered to be the continuer of the Soviet top league, founded in 1933.
Following are the results of the 1950 Soviet Top League football championship. Nineteen teams took part in the competition, with CDKA Moscow winning the championship.
Following are the results of the 1951 Soviet Top League football championship. Fifteen teams took part, with CDSA Moscow winning the championship.
The Vysshaya Liga, also referred as Higher League or Major League and commonly abbreviated as RUS-2, was a second level professional ice hockey league in Russia.
The KHL's Bobrov Division was formed in 2008 as part of the league's inauguration and is part of the Western conference since the second season of KHL when the conferences were established. It is one of 4 divisions. It is named in honor of Vsevolod Bobrov; storied ice hockey gold medalist for the Soviet Union and former CSKA and VVS player.
VVS Moscow was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football, ice hockey, basketball, and volleyball. They won the Soviet national basketball league championship in 1952, as well as the Soviet national volleyball league championship in 1952, and the Soviet national ice hockey league championship three times, in the years 1951, 1952, and 1953.
The 1952–53 Soviet Championship League season was the seventh season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Seventeen teams participated in the league, and VVS MVO Moscow won the championship.
The 1950–51 Soviet Championship League season was the fifth season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. 12 teams participated in the league, and VVS MVO Moscow won the championship.
The Soviet Cup was the national ice hockey cup competition in the Soviet Union. It was contested on-and-off from 1951-1989.
The 1992 Russian Women's Football Championship was the inaugural edition of the premier championship for Russian women's football teams, succeeding the 1991 Soviet Championship. Interros Moscow won the championship with a one-point advantage over CSK VVS Samara. However it was disbanded following the end of the season along with Spartak Moscow, Interlenprom Saint Petersburg, Sturm Petrozavodsk and Sedin-Shiss Krasnodar.
The 1945 Soviet First League was the first post-war season and the fifth since the establishing of the second tier. The tier was named the Second Group which before carried name Group B.
The Soviet First League (1936-91) was the second tier league of association football in the Soviet Union. In the 1946 season, VVS Moscow finished top of the Southern Group, and FC Pishchevik Moscow finished top of the Eastern Group. VVS won the two-leg playoff.
Alexander Vinogradov was a Russian ice hockey player.
