Rubin Tyumen

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Rubin Tyumen
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City Tyumen, Russia
League VHL 2010–present
Founded1972
Home arena Sports Palace Tyumen (3,300 seats)
Colours   
Head coach Miskhat Fakhrutdinov
Affiliate Tyumen Legion (MHL)
Website http://www.hcrubin.ru/

Rubin Tyumen is a professional ice hockey team in Tyumen, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.

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History

The club's direct predecessor was a team called Vodnik Tyumen. It participated in lower levels of the Soviet hockey championship representing a Tyumen shipbuilding plant. In 1972, its place was taken by a team called Rubin ("Ruby") that began to represent a Tyumen automobile plant. It participated in the second group of the USSR championship "A". In 1995, it was reestablished as Gazovik Tyumen and changed its name back to Rubin Tyumen in 2010. In 2011, Rubin became the first VHL champions.

Achievements

Bronze medal icon.svg IHL Championship(1): 1996