Pervaya Liga
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The Russian Hockey League , until 2010 known as the First League ' onMouseout='HidePop("85189")' href="/topics/Romanization_of_Russian">translit.
Romanization of Russian
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 Pervaya liga, also known as RUS-3), during the 2010–11 season known as the Championship of Russia between the club teams of regions , is an ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 league in Russia
Russia
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. It is a feeder league to the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....

 and the Vysshaya Khokkeynaya Liga. Majority of teams are simply junior versions of their professional counterparts. During the era of the Soviet Hockey League
Soviet Hockey League
The Soviet Championship 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, with history of the game in Russia dating several centuries into...

, it was referred to as "Class B"

The league in 2010–11 featured clubs from the 2009–10 of Pervaya Liga and also clubs that played in Vysshaya Liga but were not accepted into the VHL for 2010–11.

On 23 August, 2011 the FHR
Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
The Ice Hockey Federation of Russia is the governing body overseeing ice hockey in Russia.- History :The federation was founded on November 12, 1991 as "Ice Hockey Federation of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic / Ice Hockey Federation of Russia" established during the existence of...

 announced the creation of the Russian Hockey League that will replace the Pervaya Liga. The league will have 2 divisions. The West division will feature teams from the Center division and Povolzhie division of Pervaya Liga. The East division will feature teams from Ural and West Siberia division and Siberian and Far East division. It is to be noted that Russian Hockey League is also the name of the organization responsible for organizing the top tier league of Russia
Russian Superleague
The Russian Superleague , commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second best league in the world, after the National Hockey League of North America...

 between 1996 and 1999.

Teams for 2010–2011 Season

Division Team City
Povolzhie Division HC Chelny
HC Chelny
HC Chelny is an ice hockey team in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. The team plays in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1970....

  Naberezhnye Chelny
Naberezhnye Chelny
Naberezhnye Chelny is the second largest city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.A major industrial center, Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River some 225 km east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoir. It serves as the administrative center of Tukayevsky District, although it is not...

Sokol Novocheboksarsk
Sokol Novocheboksarsk
Sokol Novocheboksarsk is an ice hockey team in Novocheboksarsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1975....

  Novocheboksarsk
Novocheboksarsk
Novocheboksarsk is a city in the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located about east of the republic's capital city of Cheboksary, on the southern bank of the Volga River. Population: -History:...

Progress Glazov
Progress Glazov
Progress Glazov is an ice hockey team in Glazov, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey.-History:The club was founded in 1954 as Traktor Glazov. They changed their name to Torpedo Glazov in 1957, before taking on their current name, Progress Glazov, in 1962....

  Glazov
Glazov
Glazov is a town located in the north of the Udmurt Republic, Russia along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Population: It was founded in the 16th century as a village; town status was granted to it in 1780. Olga Knipper, wife of the famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov, was born in Glazov. During the...

Toros Neftekamsk-2
Toros Neftekamsk
Toros Neftekamsk is an ice hockey team in Neftekamsk, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga , the second level of Russian ice hockey.-History:...

  Neftekamsk
Neftekamsk
Neftekamsk is a city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Kama River, from the republic's capital Ufa. Population: The city's territory borders with Krasnokamsky and Yanaulsky Districts of the republic. A road network connects the town to Ufa, Birsk, Yanaul, Agidel,...

Neftyanik Almetyevsk-2
Neftyanik Almetyevsk
Neftyanik Almetyevsk is an ice hockey team in Almetyevsk, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey.-History:...

  Almetyevsk
Almetyevsk
Almetyevsk , also spelled Almat and Elmet, is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Zay River southeast of Kazan. Population: 77,000 ; 49,000 ....

Metallurg Mednogorsk
Metallurg Mednogorsk
Metallurg Mednogorsk is an ice hockey team in Mednogorsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1956....

  Mednogorsk
Mednogorsk
Mednogorsk is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1933 and was granted town status in 1939....

Izhstal Izhevsk-2
Izhstal Izhevsk
Izhstal Izhevsk are a professional ice hockey team based in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, Russia. They are currently playing in the Central Division of the Russian Supreme League....

  Izhevsk
Izhevsk
Izhevsk is the capital city of the Udmurt Republic, Russia, situated on the Izh River in the Western Urals. Population: From 1984 to 1987 Izhevsk carried the name Ustinov |Minister of Defense of the USSR]], Marshal of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Ustinov). The city is an important industrial center,...

CSK VVS Samara
CSK VVS Samara (ice hockey)
CSK VVS Samara are a professional ice hockey team based in Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia. They are currently playing in the Central Division of the Russian Supreme League....

  Samara
Samara, Russia
Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...

Kristall Saratov-2
Kristall Saratov
Kristall Saratov is an ice hockey team in Saratov, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey.-History:The club was founded as Bolshevik Saratov in 1948...

  Saratov
Saratov
-Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...

Yurmaty Salavat
Yurmaty Salavat
Yurmaty Salavat is an ice hockey team in Salavat, Russia. They were founded in 2008, and play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey....

  Salavat
Salavat
Salavat is a city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: The city is named after the Bashkir national hero Salawat Yulayev. It was founded in 1948 and granted city status in 1954....

Central Division THC Tver
THC Tver
THC Tver is an ice hockey team in Tver, Russia. They were founded in 1949, and play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey....

  Tver
Tver
Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...

HC Tambov
HC Tambov
HC Tambov is an ice hockey team in Tambov, Russia. They were founded in 1981, and play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of ice hockey in Russia....

  Tambov
Tambov
Tambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow...

HC Bryansk
HC Bryansk
HC Bryansk is an ice hockey team in Bryansk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey....

  Bryansk
Bryansk
Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: -History:The first written mention of Bryansk was in 1146, in the Hypatian Codex, as Debryansk...

Buran Voronezh
Buran Voronezh
Buran Voronezh is an ice hockey team in Voronezh, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey.The club was founded as Dynamo Voronezh in 1936.-Notable Players:*Jakob Ratschinski * Ivan Chlynzov...

  Voronezh
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

HC Belgorod
HC Belgorod
HC Belgorod is an ice hockey team in Belgorod, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of ice hockey in Russia. The club was founded in 1994....

  Belgorod
Belgorod
-Twin towns/sister cities:Belgorod is twinned with: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia Opole, Poland Vyshhorod, Ukraine Kharkiv, Ukraine-External links:...

Kristall Elektrostal
Kristall Elektrostal
Kristall Elektrostal is an ice hockey team in Elektrostal, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey.-History:The club was created as Khimik Elektrostal in 1949...

  Elektrostal
Elektrostal
Elektrostal , known as Zatishye until 1938, is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: 135,000 ; 123,000 ; 97,000 ; 43,000 . Town status was granted to it in 1938.-Industry:...

HC Vladimir
HC Vladimir
HC Vladimir is an ice hockey team in Vladimir, Russia. The team plays in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. They were founded in 2008....

  Vladimir
Vladimir
Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...

Slavutych Smolensk
Slavutych Smolensk
Slavutych Smolensk is an ice hockey team in Smolensk, Russia. The club was founded in 2010, and plays in the Pervaya Liga....

  Smolensk
Smolensk
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...

Titan Klin
Titan Klin
Titan Klin is an ice hockey team in Klin, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1991....

  Klin
Klin
Klin is a town and the administrative center of Klinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Moscow. The M10 highway connecting Moscow to St. Petersburg and the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway run through the town. It was home to Klin air base during the Cold War. ...

HC Zelenograd
HC Zelenograd
HC Zelenograd is an ice hockey team in Zelenograd, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 2009....

  Zelenograd
Zelenograd
Zelenograd is a city, which, along with the territories and settlements under its jurisdiction, forms one of the administrative okrugs of Moscow - Zelenograd Administrative Okrug...

Rusich Podolsk
Rusich Podolsk
Rusich Podolsk is an ice hockey team in Podolsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey.The club was founded in 2009....

  Podolsk
Podolsk
Podolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...

HC Lipetsk
HC Lipetsk
HC Lipetsk is an ice hockey team in Lipetsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1979. Lipetsk was admitted into the Vysshaya Liga for the 2010-11 season, but decided to remain in the Pervaya Liga due to financial difficulties....

  Lipetsk
Lipetsk
Lipetsk is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow.-History:...

Dizel Penza-2
Dizel Penza
Dizel Penza is an ice hockey team in Penza, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club is affiliated with Severstal Cherepovets of the KHL.-History:...

  Penza
Penza
-Honors:A minor planet, 3189 Penza, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978, is named after the city.-Notable residents:...

Ural & West Siberian Division Avangard-Yugra Kogalym
Avangard-Yugra Kogalym
Avangard-Yugra Kogalym is an ice hockey team in Kogalym, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 2009....

  Kogalym
Kogalym
Kogalym is a town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Inguyagun River northeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. Population: It was founded in 1975 due to the development of the oil fields in its vicinity. It was granted town status on August 15, 1985. Economy of the town is based on...

Kedr Novouralsk
Kedr Novouralsk
Kedr Novouralsk is an ice hockey team in Novouralsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1967.-External links:*...

  Novouralsk
Novouralsk
Novouralsk is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: The town, formerly known as Sverdlovsk-44, is situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, about north of Yekaterinburg...

Mechel Chelyabinsk-2   Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...

Sputnik Nizhny Tagil-2
Sputnik Nizhny Tagil
Sputnik Nizhny Tagil is an ice hockey team in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club is affiliated with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.-History:...

  Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...

Zauralje Kurgan-2   Tyumen
Tyumen
Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River east of Moscow. Population: Tyumen is the oldest Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 16th century to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most...

HC Oktan Perm
HC Oktan Perm
HC Otkan Perm is an ice hockey team in Perm, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 2008....

  Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

Siberian & Far East Division Primorye Ussuriysk
Primorye Ussuriysk
Primorye Ussuriysk is an ice hockey team in Ussuriysk, Russia. The club plays in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey....

  Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the fertile valley of the Razdolnaya River, north of Vladivostok and about from both the Chinese border and the Pacific Ocean. Population: -Medieval history:...

Altai Barnaul
Altai Barnaul
Altai Barnaul is an ice hockey team in Barnaul, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of ice hockey in Russia. The club was founded in 2006....

  Barnaul
Barnaul
-Russian Empire:Barnaul was one of the earlier cities established in Siberia. Originally chosen for its proximity to the mineral-rich Altai Mountains and its location on a major river, the site was founded by the wealthy Demidov family in the 1730s. In addition to the copper which had originally...

Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk
HC Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk
HC Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk is an ice hockey team in Prokopyevsk, Russia. The club plays in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of ice hockey in Russia. They were founded in 1960....

  Prokopyevsk
Prokopyevsk
Prokopyevsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1918 as the settlement of Prokopyevsky from the existing villages of Monastyrskoye and Prokopyevskoye, and was granted town status and renamed in 1931....

Sokol Krasnoyarsk
Sokol Krasnoyarsk
Sokol Krasnoyarsk is an ice hockey team in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1977....

  Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

Yantar Seversk
Yantar Seversk
Yantar Seversk is an ice hockey team in Seversk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 1965....

  Seversk
Seversk
Seversk is a closed city in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Tomsk on the right bank of the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1949, it was known as Pyaty Pochtovy until 1954 and as Tomsk-7 until 1992. Town status was granted to it in 1956.The current Chair of the City Duma and Mayor...

Amur Khabarovsk-2
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

  Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

Kristall Berdsk
Kristall Berdsk
Kristall Berdsk is an ice hockey team in Berdsk, Russia. They play in the Pervaya Liga, the third level of ice hockey in Russia....

  Berdsk
Berdsk
Berdsk is a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, a satellite of Novosibirsk, situated on a bank of the Berd River. Population: It was founded in 1716 as a fortress. Town status was granted to it in 1944...

Ermak Angarsk-2
Ermak Angarsk
Ermak Angarsk is an ice hockey team in Angarsk, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club is affiliated with Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the KHL.-History:...

  Angarsk
Angarsk
Angarsk is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Angara River, from Moscow. It serves as the administrative center of Angarsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:...


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