VVS Moscow
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VVS Moscow was a Soviet
sports club representing the Soviet Air Force
. Among the sports the club participated in were soccer, ice hockey
, basketball
, and volleyball
. They won the championships in basketball and volleyball in 1952, and the hockey team won three championships.
Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin
, was the president of the club. Vsevolod Bobrov
played on the soccer team 1950-52 and the hockey team 1949-53. Viktor Tikhonov
, the future Soviet national team's coach, played on the hockey team, as did Boris Kulagin, future coach of other Moscow
-based hockey teams. Yevgeny Babich, otherwise a CDKA/CSKA
player, played with the VVS hockey team for its three championship seasons.
with Anatoly Tarasov as player-coach. VVS finished second in group A in the opening phase and fifth overall. Tarasov scored 14 goals, the highest total of the season. Angry with Vasily Stalin in the next season, he quit and joined CDKA, later known as CSKA.
At the end of the 1947-48 season, after the team finished seventh out of ten, Vasily Stalin brought the first line of forwards from Spartak Moscow
to the team: Zdenek Zigmund, Ivan Novikov, and Yuri Tarasov. They finished second in 1948-49.
On January 7, 1950, as the team was on the way to Chelyabinsk
, their airplane crashed in Yekaterinburg
(then Sverdlovsk), and the only surviving players were Viktor Shuvalov and Vsevolod Bobrov, who survived because they never took that flight. Bobrov overslept and took the train instead, and Shuvalov was injured. VVS finished fourth in that season. Shuvalov led the league with 31 goals, and Bobrov placed second with 29.
The 1950-51 season saw the best players from other teams starting to play on VVS, and the team won the league championship. That year was also the first year of the USSR Cup, where VVS lost the final 4-3 to Krylya Sovetov
, also of Moscow.
In 1951-52, VVS won another championship and the USSR Cup, beating CDSA (CDKA before, CSKA later) 3-2 in the tiebreaking game for the former and Krylya Sovetov 6-5 in the final for the latter. They won the championship again in 1952-53 despite Bobrov's injury. After Joseph Stalin died, destalinization resulted in the unceremonious dissolution of VVS.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
sports club representing the Soviet Air Force
Soviet Air Force
The Soviet Air Force, officially known in Russian as Военно-воздушные силы or Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily and often abbreviated VVS was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces...
. Among the sports the club participated in were soccer, 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...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. They won the championships in basketball and volleyball in 1952, and the hockey team won three championships.
Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
, was the president of the club. Vsevolod Bobrov
Vsevolod Bobrov
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in both football , bandy, and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Russians ever in all of those sports.- Biography :...
played on the soccer team 1950-52 and the hockey team 1949-53. Viktor Tikhonov
Viktor Tikhonov
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov is a Russian former ice hockey player and coach. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the most dominant team in the world...
, the future Soviet national team's coach, played on the hockey team, as did Boris Kulagin, future coach of other Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
-based hockey teams. Yevgeny Babich, otherwise a CDKA/CSKA
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...
player, played with the VVS hockey team for its three championship seasons.
Hockey Team
In 1946-47, the VVS hockey team played in the new Soviet ChampionshipSoviet 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...
with Anatoly Tarasov as player-coach. VVS finished second in group A in the opening phase and fifth overall. Tarasov scored 14 goals, the highest total of the season. Angry with Vasily Stalin in the next season, he quit and joined CDKA, later known as CSKA.
At the end of the 1947-48 season, after the team finished seventh out of ten, Vasily Stalin brought the first line of forwards from Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946...
to the team: Zdenek Zigmund, Ivan Novikov, and Yuri Tarasov. They finished second in 1948-49.
On January 7, 1950, as the team was on the way to 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:...
, their airplane crashed in Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
(then Sverdlovsk), and the only surviving players were Viktor Shuvalov and Vsevolod Bobrov, who survived because they never took that flight. Bobrov overslept and took the train instead, and Shuvalov was injured. VVS finished fourth in that season. Shuvalov led the league with 31 goals, and Bobrov placed second with 29.
The 1950-51 season saw the best players from other teams starting to play on VVS, and the team won the league championship. That year was also the first year of the USSR Cup, where VVS lost the final 4-3 to Krylya Sovetov
PHC Krylya Sovetov
PHC Krylya Sovetov or PHC Krylya Sovietov are a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They played in the Russian Major League in the 2009–10 season...
, also of Moscow.
In 1951-52, VVS won another championship and the USSR Cup, beating CDSA (CDKA before, CSKA later) 3-2 in the tiebreaking game for the former and Krylya Sovetov 6-5 in the final for the latter. They won the championship again in 1952-53 despite Bobrov's injury. After Joseph Stalin died, destalinization resulted in the unceremonious dissolution of VVS.
Soccer Team History
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup , was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union.-Finals:-Performance by club:-Performance by republic:-References:*, rsssf.com. Accessed on 16 May 2006.... |
Top scorer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Group 2 Soviet First League The Soviet First League was the second highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet Top League. The division lasted from the inception of Soviet league football in 1936 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.-Overview:... (2nd) |
2 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 32 | 12 | 24 | Round of 32 | |
| 1946 | Group 2, South Soviet First League The Soviet First League was the second highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet Top League. The division lasted from the inception of Soviet league football in 1936 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.-Overview:... (2nd) |
1 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 56 | 22 | 37 | Round of 16 | |
| 1947 | Group 1 Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
13 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 54 | 11 | Round of 16 | Viktor Ponomaryov (8) |
| 1948 | Group 1 Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
9 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 33 | 52 | 21 | Quarterfinal | Viktor Piskovatsky (8) |
| 1949 | Group 1 Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
8 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 48 | 42 | 35 | Round of 64 | Sergei Korshunov (12) |
| 1950 | Class A Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
4 | 36 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 78 | 52 | 45 | Quarterfinal | Viktor Shuvalov (16) |
| 1951 | Class A Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
10 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 44 | 56 | 26 | Semifinal | Sergei Korshunov (13) |
| 1952 | Class A Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons... (1st) |
11 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 10 | Quarterfinal | Sergei Korshunov (4) |
Notable players
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- Anatoli IsayevAnatoli IsayevAnatoli Konstantinovich Isayev is a retired Soviet football player and Soviet and Russian coach.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1956.* Soviet Top League winner: 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962.* Soviet Cup winner: 1958....
- Konstantin KrizhevskyKonstantin KrizhevskyKonstantin Stanislavovich Krizhevsky was a Soviet football player.-International career:Krizhevsky made his debut for USSR on July 15, 1952 in a 1952 Olympics game against Bulgaria. He played for USSR at the 1958 FIFA World Cup....
- Aleksei ParamonovAleksei ParamonovAleksei Aleksandrovich Paramonov is a retired Soviet football player and manager.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1956.* Soviet Top League winner: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958.* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1954, 1955....
- Anatoli PorkhunovAnatoli PorkhunovAnatoli Nikolayevich Porkhunov was a Soviet football player.-International career:Porkhunov made his debut for USSR on August 21, 1955 in a friendly against West Germany.-External links:...