Hc tractor club history. Tractor chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk hockey club"Tractor"- one of the leading Russian teams ice hockey. The history of the club dates back to 1947, when it was founded at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. The Traktor team is a 1973 USSR Cup finalist, a Continent Cup winner and a 2012 Gagarin Cup bronze medalist.

Club history

Hockey club "Traktor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he performed under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (from 1948 to 1953),

Avangard (from 1954 to 1958). The club has been named "Traktor" since the 1958/1959 season.

The Chelyabinsk team made their debut in the national championship on January 1, 1948, when they took part in the tournament of the teams of the second group. In the first season, the team won the right to compete in the first group. December 12, 1948 - the day of the Chelyabinsk "Dzerzhintsy" debut in the top league. The first rival of the team was the national champion CDKA. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the first goal of the Chelyabinsk team in the Major League. Top scorer in the first season - Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team.

Sergei Zakhvatov in the 50s became the first Chelyabinsk citizen to be awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR (in Soviet hockey Zakhvatov became the fourth coach to receive such an honor).

In the 1954/1955 season, Avangard finished fourth in the elite league for the first time. In the 1961/1962 season, HC Traktor defeated the famous CSKA for the first time. In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 "Traktor" played in the second group. The team was returned to the first group by coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov.

The seventies became a golden era in the Soviet history of the Chelyabinsk holding company "Traktor". In 1973, the team made it to the USSR Cup final for the first time. In the crowded Luzhniki Stadium on September 6, 1973, Albert Danilov's team played against CSKA. In the battle with the eminent rival, the Chelyabinsk team even led 2: 0, but lost 2: 5. Then the team was coached by the honored coach of the USSR Anatoly Kostryukov for four seasons. In the 1976/1977 season, for the first time in the club's history, Kostryukov brought Traktor to bronze medals.

Three hockey players of HC "Traktor" at the turn of the 70-80s became world champions, directly involved in the USSR national team from "Traktor": forward Sergei Makarov (World Cup-78), defenders Sergei Starikov (World Cup-79) and Nikolai Makarov (World Cup -81). Sergei Starikov and Sergei Makarov won more than a dozen gold medals each as part of the USSR national team at the World, European and Olympic Games... Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper country, and in 1988 in Calgary became Olympic champion, and in 1986, 1989 and 1990 - three times world champion.

The next golden era in the history of the club began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in the history of "Traktor" Valery Belousov, the team twice in a row - in 1993 and 1994 - won the "bronze" of the national championship. In addition, in 1993, five hockey players from Traktor became world champions at once: goalkeeper Andrei Zuev, defender Andrei Sapozhnikov, forwards Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Igor Varitsky and Valery Karpov. Then no one could have imagined that this "gold" would be the last for Russia at the world championships for a long fourteen years, and that the next time the Russian team would become the world champion only in 2008. Vyacheslav Bykov, a trainee of the Chelyabinsk Tractor, led the Russian national team to this title at the 2008 World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup, Bykov's team managed to win the world "gold" for the second time in a row.

In 1994, six Traktor players took part in the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway: goalkeeper Andrei Zuev, defenders Oleg Davydov and Sergei Tertyshny, forwards Igor Varitsky, Valery Karpov and Ravil Gusmanov. However, Russia has become only the fourth.

Since the 1995 season, "Traktor" began to slowly enter the crisis period. And in the 1998/1999 season, the team left the Super League. As it turned out later - for seven long years. In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons, Traktor twice unsuccessfully tried to complete the task of returning to the Super League. And only in the 2005/2006 season the problem was solved. Gennady Tsygurov's team played confidently all season, and in the semifinal series they beat Dieselist from Penza and officially returned to the Super League.

Since the 2006/2007 season, Traktor has been writing its newest history. In the first championship after returning from the top league, Gennady Tsygurov's team successfully coped with the task of retaining a place in the elite Russian hockey.

Already in next year the club's management relied on the young Andrei Nazarov, who became the twentieth head coach in Traktor's history. With Nazarov, the team in the first season of his work from the 14th place in the regular season reached the playoffs - for the first time in ten years. In 2008, Traktor became full participant championship of the Continental Hockey League and again made it to the playoffs, this time from a higher 12th place.

In the 2008/2009 season, another event of the greatest importance for Chelyabinsk hockey took place. On January 17, 2009, the Arena Traktor, seating 7,500 spectators, was opened. In their debut meeting in the new palace, the black-and-whites played with their principal rival, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, and won with a score of 3: 2. As a result, the Chelyabinsk team took 12th place in the championship and in the first ever Gagarin Cup in the 1/8 finals they lost to Atlant near Moscow.

The 2009/2010 season was not easy. The team was left recognized leaders and "Traktor" had to fight to the last for a ticket to the playoffs, but Andrei Nazarov's charges successfully completed this task. In the second Gagarin Cup, our team was opposed by the same Magnitogorsk team. Having lost in two away matches, in the third Chelyabinsk team snatched a 2: 1 victory in overtime at home, but the next day Metallurg's hockey players were luckier, who went on to the playoffs.

The offseason seemed to be a turning point for Traktor. In April, Andrei Nazarov was replaced by Andrei Sidorenko as head coach of the club, but he did not work with the team for six months. On October 8, 2010, an event took place that can truly be considered historical. Valery Belousov was appointed the head coach of Traktor. Parting one of the best Russian coaches with the home club lasted more than 15 years. In his first season, the eminent mentor failed to take the team to the playoffs. Traktor finished the championship in ninth place and the 2011/2012 season was started by almost a different team ...

In the offseason, the club strengthened significantly, and the fans had the right to expect serious results from the team. From the very beginning of the championship, the Chelyabinsk HC "Traktor" established itself at the top of the overall League table, for a long time was in the lead and eventually finished the 2011/2012 KHL Regular Championship in first place, having won 39 wins in 54 matches and won the Continent Cup. Valery Belousov also received his well-deserved award. By decision of the executive committee of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, Traktor's mentor was inducted into the Russian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.

In the first round of the 2012 Gagarin Cup, the "black and white" did not experience special problems in a series with the Khanty-Mansiysk "Ugra", having won it in five meetings. In the minds of all fans and specialists, the third match of the series, which our team played at a party, will forever remain. Before the final period, Traktor was 2: 6 behind, but eventually snatched a victory in regulation time with a score of 7: 6. The next rival of the black-and-whites was Ak Bars from Kazan. It was one of the most charismatic playoff series, in which there were many injuries, a 50-minute overtime in the fifth match and an overall victory for Traktor with a score of 4: 2. Then the final of the conference. Guaranteed bronze medals. Avangard. Having won in the first meeting, Valery Belousov's team lost in the next four and stopped one step away from the final. The step that Traktor will take in the 2012/2013 season. The step that will be taken by the team that won the medals of the national championship for the first time in 18 years.

Club achievements

1972 - Spengler Cup Final
1973 - USSR Cup Final
1977 - Bronze medals of the USSR Championship
1993 - Bronze medals of the International Hockey League
1994 - Bronze medals of the International Hockey League
2012 - Continent Cup
2012 - Bronze medals of the Gagarin Cup

Yurevich Mikhail Valerievich Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region

Mosharov Stanislav Ivanovich

Head of Chelyabinsk (Chairman of the City Duma)

Serebrennikov Yuri Nikolaevich

Minister for physical culture, sports and tourism of the Chelyabinsk region

Krechin Vladimir Nikolaevich Director of the hockey club "Traktor"

Club management

Krechin Vladimir Nikolaevich

Club director

Vinnitsky Mark Moiseevich

Deputy Director

Tsybuk Evgeniy Konstantinovich Manager

Club achievements

1948 - Winners of the II group of the USSR Championship

1968 - Winners of the II group of class "A" of the USSR Championship

1973 - Spengler Cup Finalists

1973 - USSR Cup Finalists

1977 - Bronze medalists of the USSR Championship

1993 - Bronze medalists of the Championship (Cup) of the International Hockey League

1994 - Bronze medalists of the International Hockey League Championship

2004 - Bronze medalists of the Higher League of the Championship of Russia

2006 - Winners of the Higher League of the Russian Championship

2012 - Continent Cup Winners

2012 - Bronze medalists of the Continental Hockey League Championship, Russian Championship

2013 - Winners of the Eastern Conference Cup

2013 - Silver medalists of the Continental Hockey League Championship, Russian Championship

2018 - Bronze medalists of the Continental Hockey League Championship

Club history

Everything you need to know about one of the oldest ice hockey clubs in the country.

December 27, 1947 in the voluntary sports society "Dzerzhinets" on the initiative of the director of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Isaak Zaltsman, the first ice hockey section in Chelyabinsk and the South Urals was created. This day becomes the club's official birthday (until 1953 - "Dzerzhinets", from 1953 - "Avangard", from 1958 to the present - "Traktor"). A little earlier, in October 1947, the football and hockey department of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR approved the calendar of the USSR Championship 1947/1948. Canadian hockey in the second group. The ChTZ factory team is included in the list of participants in the competition. On the basis of a directive from Moscow, Isaac Zaltsman, by order, relieves the team members from their main place of work for the period of preparation and holding of the competition.

Viktor Vasiliev becomes the first coach of Traktor (playing) and captain. Before serving in the army, he works as a physical education instructor at a nickel plant in his native Verkhniy Ufaley. After the service, Vasilyev moved to Chelyabinsk, where he linked his fate with the sports team of ChTZ, became the coach of the first factory team in football and Russian hockey. A few months before the founding of "Traktor" Vasiliev was taking courses in Canadian hockey in Moscow.

On January 1, 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) played the first ever official match. The team receives the Gorky "Torpedo" in Chelyabinsk. Six (!) Pucks by Pyotr Chernenko, the "poker" of the future Olympic champion Viktor Shuvalov (who also became the author of the first goal in the history of the Chelyabinsk club) and Sergei Zakhvatov's goal bring the hosts an 11: 2 victory. The opponents play the second match two days later. It also ends with a win for the hosts. This time - 7: 4. Viktor Shuvalov has one more poker, Sergey Zakhvatov has a double, Peter Chernenko has one goal.

The first line-up of "Traktor" ("Dzerzhinets") will go down in history forever. Goalkeepers: Boris Rebyansky, Mikhail Peshkov; defenders: Alexander Yashchenko, Viktor Vasiliev (captain, playing coach), Sergey Zakhvatov, Evgeny Rogov, Mikhail Petrov, Nikolay Yaschenkov; forwards: Vladimir Shtyrkov, Alexander Ponomarev, Petr Chernenko, Viktor Shuvalov, Nikolai Epshtein, Zinovy Pevzner.

On January 25, 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) beat the local Lokomotiv in Vologda with a score of 18: 2. Pyotr Chernenko has five goals, Viktor Shuvalov makes a hat-trick. This victory is still the largest in the history of the Chelyabinsk club. Almost four years later, on December 7, 1951, Chelyabinsk residents suffer the biggest defeat in their history from the Moscow Air Force (2:20).

In March 1948 "Traktor" ("Dzerzhinets") issued a ticket to the top division of Russian hockey. At the first stage, Viktor Vasiliev's team wins ten matches out of twelve in their zone, scores 100 goals, but finishes only second - after Dynamo from Sverdlovsk. The final tournament takes place in Molotov (present-day Perm). "Dzerzhinets" beats Moscow "Burevestnik" (7: 4), for the third time this season it is inferior to "Dynamo" from Sverdlovsk (2: 3), and in the final match beats the Leningrad SKIF (3: 2). Chelyabinsk citizens are gaining 4 points, the same amount for SKIF and Dynamo, but according to additional indicators the first place goes to "Dzerzhinets".

December 12, 1948 "Traktor" ("Dzerzhinets") will make its debut in the elite of Soviet hockey in a match with reigning champion CDKA. The game in Chelyabinsk is watched by 6,000 spectators. Georgy Zhenishek opens the scoring in the tenth minute (this is the club's first goal on the highest level). Leonid Stepanov increases his team's advantage by sixteenth. The hosts lead 2-0 after the first period. 2: 1 - after the second. But in the third they concede twice more and lose (2: 3).

December 18, 1948 Traktor (Dzerzhinets) won their first match at the highest level. Dynamo Riga was defeated in Chelyabinsk (3: 2). Due to the frost, the match takes place in an unusual format - in six periods of ten minutes. Victory to the hosts is brought by Viktor Shuvalov's double and Leonid Stepanov's goal. However, Dynamo protested the result and is seeking a replay. It takes place in Moscow on March 1, 1949 and ends with another victory for Traktor (Dzerzhinets). This time - 5: 4. Georgy Zhenishek and Viktor Shuvalov make a double, Leonid Stepanov is responsible for the goal.

In 18 matches of its first season in the elite, the Chelyabinsk club is gaining 14 points (5 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses, washers 45:58) and finishes in 7th place (out of ten possible). Above are only Moscow CDKA, Air Force MVO, "Dynamo", "Krylia Sovetov" and "Spartak", as well as Riga "Dynamo".

February 24, 1954 "Traktor" ("Avangard") plays the first international match in its history. On home ice Vasily Karelin's team beat the GDR national team (6: 2). Victory to the hosts is brought by Viktor Sokolov's double and goals by Rudolf Dokumentov, Boris Glushkov, Nikolai Linyaev and Boris Semenov.

Since 1955, hockey players of the Chelyabinsk club have been invited to the USSR national team. The pioneer is the forward Rudolf Dokumentov, who, as part of the country's second national team, participates in a tour of Germany and Holland. In March 1956, as part of the USSR student team, Nikolai Ulanov, Eduard Polyakov, Anatoly Olkov, Vladimir Karavdin, Rudolf Dokumentov, Viktor Sokolov, Valery Kiselyov and coach Sergei Zakhvatov won the World student games in Warsaw. In November 1957, Anatoly Olkov became the first Chelyabinsk player in the main USSR national team. He takes part in the first ever tour of Canada. And a little later, in September 1962, Gennady Tsygurov, Stanislav Malkov and Viktor Kungurtsev play for the USSR youth team on a tour of Czechoslovakia.

In the 1954/1955 season, Traktor (Avangard) set a new club achievement - for the first time in its history, it occupies 4th place in the elite of Russian hockey, losing only to the Moscow teams CSK MO, Krylya Sovetov and Dynamo. In 1956, the Chelyabinsk residents were fifth, and in 1957 they repeated their success, bypassing the Moscow "Spartak" and ODO Leningrad. These achievements bring Chelyabinsk hockey players the titles of masters of sports of the USSR, and senior coach Sergei Zakhvatov - the title of Honored Coach of the USSR and a certificate for number 4, the first three - from Anatoly Tarasov, Arkady Chernyshev and Vladimir Egorov.

In January 1958 "Traktor" ("Avangard") embarked on its first foreign tour. The team travels to the GDR, where they play six matches in four cities (Weiswasser, Dresden, Berlin and Krimitschau) in a week and achieve six victories. Avangard beat the GDR national team three times (5: 4, 8: 1, 7: 4), the GDR youth team (12: 1), as well as the combined teams of the local Dynamo and Weiswasser (3: 1) and Bismuth "And" Einkhet "(6: 0). In the future, such tours become regular. "Traktor" travels to Czechoslovakia, Finland, Romania, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Canada, USA, Italy, Yugoslavia.

At the end of the 1958/1959 season, for the first time, a list of 34 the best hockey players THE USSR. It includes the goalkeeper of "Traktor" Yuri Nikonov and 17-year-old forward Viktor Kungurtsev, with 12 goals, became one of the best snipers of his team.

On February 7, 1962, Traktor beat CSKA at home in a fantastic match (5: 4), returning to the game with 0: 3. Victor Kungurtsev scored the winning goal on the 56th minute. The match is watched live by 5500 spectators. Thousands watch it on TV - on this day, for the first time in history, television broadcasts the game from Chelyabinsk.

In the 1964/1965 season, Traktor took the last 10th place and left the top division. The team wins only two matches out of 36, scores only 10 points, scores the least (75), concedes the most (183). In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 "Traktor" plays in the second group.

On November 3, 1967, the Yunost Sports Palace was opened in Chelyabinsk, which became a home for Traktor for forty years. The palace was built according to the revised project of the sports palace in Minsk; construction work has been going on since September 1966. The 1967/1968 season "Traktor" plays out on the old open skating rink at ChTZ, and in the new one, having already returned to the top league, it moves to "Yunost". September 15, 1968 in the first match of the season and the first in the history of the new palace "Traktor" takes Kiev "Dynamo" and achieves a victory (2: 1). The author of the first goal in Yunost is Yuriy Potekhov from Kiev. The author of the first goal of "Traktor" is Vyacheslav Nesterov, who equalizes the score in the 36th minute. Nikolay Betz brings the victory to Traktor.

In the spring of 1968 "Traktor" won the championship in the second group and returned to the elite. The team of Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov plays excellent decisive matches in March, where they successfully play with key rivals: Dieselist in Chelyabinsk (1: 0 and 6: 4) and Kristall in Elektrostal (2: 2 and 5: 2).

In the 1968/1969 season, Yuri Mogilnikov scored 44 goals and set a new club sniper record, which has not yet been broken. In the top three in history - Igor Varitsky (29 goals in the 1994/1995 season) and Nikolai Betz - (28 goals in the 1965/1966 season).

On October 10, 1971, 22-year-old striker Valery Belousov, who came from Sputnik, Nizhny Tagil, plays his first match for Traktor. In Moscow, Viktor Stolyarov's team is losing to Dynamo (3: 5) - this very club will become, perhaps, the main rival in Belousov's coaching career in the future. Six days later, on October 16, 1971, in the second match for himself in the new team, Belousov scored his first goal for Traktor. On this day, at the ChTZ stadium, in the presence of 9000 spectators, Traktor played a draw with Spartak (5: 5), the striker made the score 2: 2 in the 26th minute. Ten and a half years later, on May 3 and 4, 1982, Belousov scored his last goals for Traktor. In Riga in matches with the local "Dynamo" in the tournament for 5-8 places. In the first game "Traktor" is inferior (3: 5), and Belousov makes a double, in the second - "Traktor" takes revenge (5: 4), and the forward scores one goal on his account. On May 7, 1982 in Chelyabinsk, within the framework of the same tournament for 5-8 places, Belousov plays his last match for Traktor. The game with SKA ends in a draw (1: 1). In the USSR, Belousov only plays in Traktor. In its first season in Chelyabinsk, Traktor became the best provincial team in the USSR championship, finishing fifth, right after four Moscow clubs CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and Krylia Sovetov. Twice more during this period, "Traktor" stops one step away from the podium, in fourth place - in the seasons 1977/1978 and 1980/1981. In 1973, the team played in the USSR Cup final, and in 1977 won bronze. In eleven seasons (1971/1972 - 1981/1982) Belousov plays 443 matches, scores 240 goals and makes 202 assists and inscribes his name in the history of the club as the top scorer of all time. Currently, the "Traktor" organized the "Club of snipers named after Valery Belousov." Its top 5 includes:

1 - Valery Belousov - 240, 2 - Anatoly Kartaev - 224, 3 - Nikolay Betz - 223, 4 - Nikolai Shorin - 161, 5 - Yuri Shumakov - 141

September 6, 1973 "Traktor" for the first time in its history plays in the USSR Cup final. On the way to the finals, Albert Danilov's team beat local Dynamo in the 1/8 finals in Kiev (7: 2), in the quarterfinals Dinamo Riga (4: 2) plays at home, and in the semifinals in Moscow, they sensationally knock out Spartak (9: 4) due to the phenomenal play in the third period (6: 1). In the final against CSKA in Moscow, Traktor leads 2: 1 after two periods at the expense of the goals of Nikolai Makarov and Valery Ponomarev, but concedes five goals in the third and loses (2: 6).

In December 1973 - January 1974 Traktor participated for the first time in the Spengler Cup, the oldest club tournament in the world, held in Davos, Switzerland. In the opening match, the Chelyabinsk team beat Jokerit (10: 4), then - Fussen (7: 1) and Davos (10: 1), but in the dispute for the first place on January 3, 1974 they were inferior to Slovan (2 :4). On January 5 and 6, Traktor again plays against Slovan (already in the usual exhibition matches in Arese and Basel) and wins twice (4: 3 and 6: 2). In December 1993, Traktor took part in the Spengler Cup for the second time and took third place.

In September 1976, Traktor's forward Valery Belousov played for the USSR national team in the first ever Canadian Cup. Belousov's partners in the team led by Viktor Tikhonov are Vladislav Tretyak, Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov, Valery Vasiliev, Sergey Babinov, Vladimir Krikunov, Alexander Maltsev, Helmut Balderis, Boris Alexandrov. The USSR plays the first three matches in Montreal. On September 3, the USSR loses to Czechoslovakia (3: 5), on September 5, it also draws with Sweden (3: 3), and on September 7 beats Finland (11: 2). Beat the USA on September 9 in Philadelphia (5: 0). And finally, on September 9, in the final match, he lost in Toronto to Canada with Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and Bobby Hull (1: 3) and did not make it to the final. Belousov has five matches and one assist.

January 6, 1974 Sergei Babinov becomes the first Traktor player to win youth championship the world. The first tournament in history is considered unofficial and takes place in Leningrad. The first seven MFM are won by the USSR. The current Traktor players are directly involved in six victories: Sergei Babinov (USA, 1975), Valery Evstifeev (Finland, 1976), Sergei Mylnikov, Sergei Starikov, Sergei Makarov and Valery Evstifeev (Czechoslovakia, 1977), Sergei Mylnikov, Sergei Starikov , Sergey Makarov, Sergey Paramonov (Canada, 1978), Andrey Sidorenko (Sweden, 1979). In the future, seven more active Traktor players become U20 world champions: Evgeny Davydov (Canada, 1986), Sergey Gomolyako (USA, 1989), Artem Kopot, Ravil Gusmanov (Germany, 1992), Konstantin Gusev (Canada, 1999), Evgeny Kuznetsov, Anton Burdasov (USA, 2011)

In the 1976/1977 season, for the first time in its history, "Traktor" won the medals of the USSR championship (bronze). Ripe for big victories Anatoly Kostryukov's team wins 20 matches out of 36 and gains 45 points. Traktor is in the top 3 leagues in terms of defense reliability (106 conceded goals in total), team leader Valery Belousov is in the top five scorers of the season with 49 (20 + 29) points. On March 9, 1977, in the key match of the season, Traktor beat their main rival, Dinamo Riga, at home (4: 2). The victory for the Chelyabinsk team is brought by the goals of Anatoly Egorkin, Gennady Tsygurov, Valery Belousov, who realized the bullet, and Anatoly Kartaev. In the three remaining matches of the season, "Traktor" needs to score one point, the problem is solved in Gorky on March 16, 1977.

Sergey Makarov wins the 1978 World Championship with the USSR national team and becomes the first champion in the history of Traktor. The tournament takes place in the capital of Czechoslovakia, Prague, the hosts are champions of two recent years and are considered favorites. But in the decisive match, on May 14, 1978, Viktor Tikhonov's team achieved victory with the required score (3: 1) and won gold. 19-year-old Makarov plays in all ten league matches and scores 5 (3 + 2) points. After that, only nine current Traktor players become world champions: Sergey Starikov (USSR, 1979), Nikolai Makarov (Sweden, 1981), Sergey Mylnikov (USSR, 1986 and Sweden, 1989), Andrey Zuev, Valery Karpov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Andrey Sapozhnikov, Igor Varitsky (all - FRG, 1993) and Evgeny Kuznetsov (Finland / Sweden, 2012).

In the 1979/1980 season, Traktor's defender Nikolay Makarov scores 21 goals. the best sniper among defense players. Already in the 2000s, his record will be broken by Oleg Piganovich, who distinguished himself 22 times in the 2007/2008 season. In the 2008/2009 season, Barys defender Kevin Dallman will set a new achievement - 28 goals.

The 1986/1987 season is the last in Traktor and Yuri Shumakov's playing career, who holds the record for the number of matches for the club. The universal hockey player spends 19 seasons at the Chelyabinsk club, plays over 702 matches and scores 238 (138 + 100) points. He is a finalist of the 1973 USSR Cup and a bronze medalist of the 1977 USSR Championship. Currently, the top 10 of the Yuri Shumakov Club (for hockey players who have played 500 or more matches for Traktor) include:

1 - Yuri Shumakov - 702, 2 - Gennady Tsygurov - 650, 3 - Andrey Popov - 590, 4 - Alexander Rozhkov - 589, 5 - Valery Ponomarev - 585, 6 - Sergey Paramonov - 569, 7 - Alexey Zavarukhin - 541, 8 - Pavel Lazarev - 523, 9 - Nikolay Makarov - 516, 10 - Nikolay Betz - 514

At the end of the 1986/1987 season, Traktor retains its place in the elite only thanks to the expansion of the Major League. After the first and second stages, the team of Anatoly Shustov takes tenth place (out of twelve), and then loses in transitional matches to Sverdlovsk Avtomobilist (2: 2 and 2: 3 - away, 2: 4 and 4: 4 - at home). A month later, on May 29, 1987, the Presidium of the USSR Ice Hockey Federation expands Major league up to 14 teams, additionally keeping the "Tractor" in it and providing a place for the "Torpedo" from Ust-Kamenogorsk. In the summer, Gennady Tsygurov (assisted by Valery Belousov and Valery Kiselev) becomes the new head coach of the Chelyabinsk club, and in the 1987/1988 season Traktor takes seventh place.

In February 1988, Sergei Mylnikov became the first (and still the only) Olympic champion as the current player of Traktor. Mylnikov wins games in Calgary, Canada. Traktor's goalkeeper plays number one at the Olympics and makes a huge contribution to the overall victory. At the preliminary stage, Viktor Tikhonov's team, in which, in addition to Mylnikov, leading roles are played by Vladimir Krutov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergey Makarov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Valery Kamensky, as well as 19-year-old Alexander Mogilny, beats Norway (5: 0), Austria ( 8: 1), USA (7: 5), Germany (6: 3) and Czechoslovakia (6: 1). On final stage The USSR beats Canada (5: 0) and after the victory over Sweden (7: 1) secures gold for the round to the end. The defeat in the final match against Finland (1: 2) does not mean anything anymore. Mylnikov has 8 matches in the tournament and 13 goals conceded in total.

Six years later, "Traktor" goes down in history once again. A unique case: six players of the club at once - Andrey Zuev, Sergey Tertyshny, Oleg Davydov, Ravil Gusmanov, Igor Varitsky, Valery Karpov represent Chelyabinsk at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Alas, the Russian national team is left without medals - it is in fourth place.

In 1989, for the first time in the history of the club, Traktor players were selected for the NHL draft. Sergey Mylnikov - in the 7th round under the general number 127 "Quebec Nordics", Sergey Gomolyako - in the 9th round under the general number 189 "Calgary Flames". Mylnikov becomes the first Soviet goalkeeper in the NHL, but his career in North America limited to ten matches. Gomolyako spends his entire career in Russia, where he becomes one of the most prominent players of the nineties.

On March 17, 1990 Valery Belousov becomes the acting head coach of Traktor. This appointment changes the history of the club. Belousov's first match as head coach was on March 22, 1990, at home against Salavat Yulaev in the 1989/1990 transition tournament. Traktor wins (4: 0), the first goal of Belousov's team is scored by Valery Karpov with a pass from Sergei Gomolyako. In 14 matches of Belousov's first season, Traktor scored ten victories, finished third in the transition, leaving Ust-Kamenogorsk and Kazan ahead, and retained its place in the elite.

Valery Belousov has been working with Traktor for two historical periods, which in total included 524 official matches... The first segment lasted from March 17, 1990 to June 1995. The second - from October 8, 2010 to April 30, 2014. With Belousov as head coach, Traktor wins bronze in 1993 and 1994, Continent Cup and bronze in 2012, and in 2013 it reaches the final Gagarin Cup.

In the spring of 1993, Traktor won medals of the national championship for the second time in its history - bronze again. At the first stage of the 1992/1993 season, the juicy team of Valery Belousov wins the fourth zone by a wide margin, and at the second stage it finishes second in the eastern conference, losing 4 points to Gennady Tsygurov's Lada. In the first round of the playoffs, Traktor competes with Sokol Kiev (2-1), in the second round it wins the derby against Magnitka (2-0), and then loses to Dynamo Moscow (1-2) in the dramatic semifinals ...

Traktor's strikers Igor Varitsky and Igor Fedulov are in the top 5 scorers of the season with 44 (27 + 17) and 43 (18 + 25) points, respectively. Andrey Zuev becomes the best goalkeeper of the season. Valery Karpov is the best hockey player.

In May 1993, five Traktor players Andrei Zuev, Andrei Sapozhnikov, Valery Karpov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Igor Varitsky won the World Championship in Germany. At the first stage, Russia plays with Italy (2: 2), Austria (4: 2), Switzerland (6: 0), Sweden (2: 5) and Canada (1: 3) and finishes only third in its group. But in the playoffs, Boris Mikhailov's team is transformed. In the quarterfinals Russia passes Germany (5: 1), in the semifinals - Canada (7: 4), and in the final it beats Sweden (3: 1). This gold becomes the last for Russia until 2008.

In the spring of 1994, "Traktor" repeats the bronze success. The team is in third place in the first stage, losing six points to Lada and one to Dynamo Moscow. Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod(2-0), in the second - "Torpedo" from Yaroslavl (2-0), and in the semifinals again yields to Moscow "Dynamo" (0-2). Sergey Tertyshny and Andrey Sapozhnikov were recognized as the best defenders of the season, Valery Karpov - the best striker.

In 1999 Traktor left the Super League. Later it turns out - for seven long years. The team takes 18th place out of 22 in the first stage, and then fails in the transition tournament.

In the 2005/2006 season, Traktor won the Major League and returned to the elite division. Gennady Tsygurov's team is confidently going through the championship and playoffs, in the semifinal series they will beat Dieselist Penza and officially return to the Super League. The bonus is the victory in the final over Krylia Sovetov (3-2) and the winning of the Major League Cup.

On January 10, 2009, forward Andrei Nikolishin becomes the first ever representative of Traktor at the All-Star Game. The first KHL All-Star Game is being held in Moscow at a skating rink built on Red Square with a capacity of 4,000 spectators. Nikolishin plays for Alexei Yashin's team, which includes the best Russian players league. The team of Jaromir Jagr, where the best legionnaires are gathered, wins the match (7: 6). In the future, eight more Traktor players, as well as Valery Belousov, will participate in the All-Star Games.

All representatives of "Traktor" at the cost center:
2009 - Andrey Nikolishin
2011 - Evgeny Kuznetsov
2012 - Valery Belousov / Evgeny Kuznetsov, Michael Garnett, Alexander Ryazantsev
2013 - Valery Belousov / Evgeny Kuznetsov, Michael Garnett, Deron Quint
2016 - Vladimir Denisov
2017 - Kirill Koltsov, Pavel Frantsouz
2018 - Paul Schechura

On January 17, 2009, the Traktor Arena for 7,500 spectators opens in Chelyabinsk. In the opening match, Andrei Nazarov's Traktor beat Metallurg Magnitogorsk Valery Belousov (3: 2). The author of the first washer on new arena the Austrian black-and-white defender Andre Lakos becomes the Austrian black-and-white defender, Oleg Kvasha makes a double for Traktor. Six years later, in June 2015, the Arena was named after Valery Belousov

The 2011/2012 season gives the fans a new strong "Traktor". Valery Belousov's team (who returned to Chelyabinsk fifteen years later in the 2010/2011 season) gains 114 points, wins the Eastern Conference and the Continent Cup - as the best team regular season, and then goes for medals. In the first round of the Gagarin Cup, Traktor competes against Ugra (4-1), in the second round - Ak Bars (4-2), but stops in the semifinals with Avangard (1-4).

On January 13, 2013, Chelyabinsk will host the fifth ever KHL All-Star Game. The stellar weekend starts at the Traktor Arena the day before with the Match of Legends, in which Sergey Makarov's team draws with Vyacheslav Fetisov's team (4: 4) in the presence of 6,000 spectators; and then the West defeats the East in the master show. The next day, Alexey Morozov's team beat Ilya Kovalchuk's team (18:11), Evgeny Kuznetsov makes poker for the winners, Deron Quint makes a double. One of the goalkeepers of the East is Michael Garnett. One of the coaches is Valery Belousov. The game is sold out.

In the 2012/2013 season Valery Belousov takes Traktor to the Gagarin Cup final. This is the highest achievement in the history of the club. The team will finish third in the Eastern Conference. In the first round of the playoffs, Barys (4-3), in the second - Avangard (4-1), and in the semifinals, losing in the course of the series 0-2 and 1-3 - Ak Bars (4 -3). The final with Dynamo Moscow becomes an epic. On April 7 and 8, Traktor will lose the opening matches in Moscow (1: 2 and 2: 3). April 11 in Chelyabinsk reduces the gap in the series (3: 1), but the next day he loses at home (0: 1). On April 15, in Moscow, black and white are again closing the gap (4: 3). The fate of the Cup is decided in the sixth match of the series, on April 17 in Chelyabinsk. An overtime victory (3: 2) brings Oleg Znark's Dynamo trophy. KHL names Valery Nichushkin best newbie season.

On February 16, 2016, the American defender of Traktor Deron Quint takes part in the match with Magnitka (1: 0) and becomes the oldest hockey player in the history of the Chelyabinsk club to play in an official match. At the time of the match, Quint is 39 years old, 11 months and 4 days old. According to this indicator, Quint is ahead of ex-Traktor players Andrey Zuev (39 years, 10 months and 30 days), Sergey Khrushchev (39 years, 3 months and 27 days) and Andrey Balandin (39 years, 2 months and 24 days). The 2015/2016 season is the last for the American in Traktor and the KHL. In the background of the defender - 5 seasons for black and white, 311 matches (the best among legionnaires), 143 (57 + 86) points, bronze and 2012 Continent Cup, 2013 Gagarin Cup final.

On November 23, 2015, Anvar Gatiyatulin, who twice won the Kharlamov Cup bronze with Polar Bears, becomes the acting head coach of Traktor. He is the 25th Main coach in the history of the club after Viktor Vasilyev, Vasily Karelin, Sergei Zakhvatov, Nikolai Sidorenko, Vladimir Karavdin, Yuri Nikonov, Viktor Stolyarov, Vladislav Smirnov, Albert Danilov, Anatoly Kostryukov, Gennady Tsygurov, Anatoly Shustov, Valery Belousov, Anatoly Kartin Timofeev, Sergey Paramonov, Alexander Glazkov, Nikolay Makarov, Anatoly Bogdanov, Andrey Nazarov, Andrey Sidorenko, Curry Kiwi and Andrey Nikolishin.

During the 2017/2018 season, 26-year-old striker Alexei Kruchinin becomes the 50th captain in Traktor's history. In the absence of the injured main black-and-white captain Alexander Shinin, Kruchinin comes out with a captain's patch for the match against Barys (September 30, 2: 1), and then for the away matches against Admiral (October 4, 2: 3 from) and "Cupid" (October 6, 3: 2). Kruchinin finds himself in a very serious company: the first captain of the Chelyabinsk club was Viktor Vasiliev, in addition, in different years and periods of history, the captains of Traktor were Sergey Zakhvatov, Gennady Tsygurov, Anatoly Kartaev, Nikolai Betz, Valery Belousov, Yuri Shumakov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Maxim Smelnitsky, Vladimir Vorontsov, Vladimir Antipov and Evgeny Kuznetsov.

On October 14, 2017, in the match against Slovan from Bratislava, the black and white win their 1000th victory in the history of the top division of the national championships. Traktor beat the rival with a minimal advantage 2: 1, the winning goal was scored by Alexei Kruchinin.

On December 25 and 27, 2017, Traktor celebrates its 70th anniversary with matches against Dinamo Minsk and Lokomotiv. At the Valery Belousov Arena, the largest media cube in the KHL begins to work, a capsule with messages for the club's 100th anniversary in 2047 has been laid.

On March 7, 2018, having beaten Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik with a score of 3: 2, Traktor finished the longest 10-match winning streak v recent history... The series began with Traktor's 3-0 victory in Bratislava on January 11, 2017. Before the end of the regular season, Traktor won 7 games Slovan Bratislava 3: 0, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 4: 0, 2: 1, Avangard Omsk 2: 1, 3: 1, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 3: 1, Siberia Novosibirsk 4: 1, and won three times in the first round of the playoffs against Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 4: 3OT, 4: 1, 3: 2.

On March 27 in Ufa, Traktor won 4 wins in a seven-match series with Salavat Yulaev 2: 1, the victorious goal was scored by Vinus Videll, securing bronze medals in the KHL Championship. In the final of the conference, Traktor lost 0: 4 in the series against Ak Bars Kazan, the future KHL champion and winner of the 2017/2018 Gagarin Cup.

Vitaly Kravtsov established new record KHL performance for 18 year olds in the playoffs - 11 points (6 + 5), surpassing the achievement of Evgeny Kuznetsov in 2012 - 9 (7 + 2) and Valery Nichushkin in 2013 - 9 (6 + 3). In the history of Russian hockey, Vitaly Kravtsov is the third among players under 20 years old after Maxim Afinogenov 19 years old 1999 -16 (10 + 6), Evgeny Malkin 19 years old 2006 - 15 (5 + 10).

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Encyclopedia

Hockey club "Traktor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he played under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (from 1948 to 1953), "Avangard" (from 1954 to 1958). The club has been named "Traktor" since the 1958/1959 season.

The Chelyabinsk team made their debut in the national championship in the 1947/1948 season, when they took part in the tournament of the teams of the second group. In the first match in the history of the club, the rival of "Dzerzhinets" was the Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo". The game took place on January 1, 1948 in Chelyabinsk and ended in a convincing victory for the hosts with a score of 11: 2. In the first season, "Dzerzhinets" won the right to play in the first group.

December 12, 1948 - the day of the debut of "Dzerzhinets" in the top league. The first rival of the team was the national champion CDKA. Chelyabinsk even led 2: 0, but in the end they still lost 2: 3. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the club's first puck in the top league. The best scorer in the first season is Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team.

In the 1954/1955 season, the Chelyabinsk club finished at the top of the table for the first time, finishing fourth. The following year, the team was fifth and for the first time in its history finished the championship with a positive difference between goals scored and conceded. In addition, in the spring of 1956 "Avangard" became the champion of the third winter Spartakiad of trade unions.

And in the 1956/1957 season he again took fourth place. In the same season, for the first time, a hockey player from Chelyabinsk was invited to the national team. Anatoly Olkov has written his name in history forever. He made his debut in the USSR national team on February 10, 1957 in a duel against Sweden. The game ended with the victory of the USSR with a score of 7: 3.

In September 1957, the Chelyabinsk team reached the final of the first ever tournament for the prizes of the newspaper "Soviet Sport", where it lost to the Moscow CSK MO (6:12).

In November 1957, the head coach of Avangard, Sergei Zakhvatov, was the first Chelyabinsk citizen to be awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR. In Soviet hockey, Zakhvatov became the fourth coach to receive this honor, after Arkady Chernyshev, Vladimir Egorov and Anatoly Tarasov.

In the summer of 1958, the club changed its name to Traktor.

In the 1959/1960 season, the national championship was for the first time held according to a formula reminiscent of the current one. Traktor took second place in the Ural-Siberian group and advanced to the playoffs, where in the quarterfinals they met with Moscow Lokomotiv. The first match ended in favor of the Chelyabinsk team - 3: 2, but in the series up to two victories, the railroad still took the upper hand.

In the 1961/1962 season, Traktor defeated the famous CSKA for the first time. It happened on February 7, 1962 in Chelyabinsk. After the first period the hosts lost 0: 3, but in the second and third periods they tipped the scales in their favor - 5: 4. However, on the whole, the team has already entered a crisis period. And at the end of the 1964/1965 season, Traktor, having won only two wins in 36 matches, left the elite.

In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 "Traktor" played in the second group. The team was returned to the first group by coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov.

The seventies became the Bronze Age in the Soviet history of Traktor. In December 1970, the Chelyabinsk team won the Miner's Cup in Katowice, Poland, beating the local GKS (4: 2) and the team from the city of Yanov (10: 4), as well as the East German Dynamo (9: 5). The 1971/1972 season brought the team fifth place and reached the semifinals of the National Cup. And in 1973, "Traktor" for the first time made it to the USSR Cup final. On the way to the decisive match, Chelyabinsk players knocked out Dynamo Kiev (7: 2), Riga Dynamo (4: 2) and Moscow Spartak (9: 4).

On September 6, 1973, in the overcrowded Luzhniki Stadium, which accommodated 12,000 spectators, Albert Danilov's team played against CSKA. In the battle with the eminent rival, Traktor was leading 2: 1 after two periods, but failed in the third and eventually lost 2: 6. Interestingly, not a single non-Moscow team in history has managed to win the USSR Cup, which was held from 1951 to 1988, and in addition to Traktor, only the Gorky Torpedo (1961), the Leningrad SKA (1968) and the Resurrection Chemist "(1972).

In the same season, Traktor took part for the first time in the Spengler Cup, one of the most prestigious and oldest international competitions Europe, since 1923 held in Davos, Switzerland on New Year's Eve. In a one-round tournament, the Chelyabinsk team successively defeated the Finnish Jokerit Helsinki (10: 4), the West German “EV Füssen” (7: 1) and Davos (10: 1), but in the decisive match on January 3, 1974 they lost to the future winner of the tournament, the Slovakian “ Slovan Bratislava ”(2: 4) and brought home only silver medals.

In the 1974/1975 season, "Traktor" was headed by Muscovite Anatoly Kostryukov. In the first and second championships with a new head coach, the team finished seventh. And in the 1976/1977 season, for the first time in the history of the club, Kostryukov brought Traktor to the bronze medals of the national championship.

Together with the head coach and his assistant Viktor Sokolov, the team was led to this achievement by goalkeepers Leonid Gerasimov and Sergei Mylnikov, defenders Boris Belov, Nikolai Makarov, Valery Ponomarev, Sergei Starikov, Sergei Tyzhnykh, Gennady Tsygurov and Vladimir Shabunin, strikers Valery Belousov (team captain) , Nikolai Betz, Vladimir Borodulin, Yuri Valetsky, Anatoly Egorkin, Valery Evstifeev, Anatoly Kartaev, Anatoly Makhinko, Sergey Makarov, Boris Molchanov, Mikhail Prirodin, Nikolai Shorin and Yuri Shumakov.

The next season, which became the last for Anatoly Kostryukov in Chelyabinsk, Traktor again almost reached the bronze medal of the national championship. As a result, the team lost the fight for third place to Wings of the Soviets and finished the tournament in fourth position.

The successes of "Traktor" did not go unnoticed in the capital. Sergey Babinov, Sergey Starikov, Valery Evstifeev, Alexander Tyzhnykh and Sergey Makarov moved to Moscow clubs. A little earlier this route was followed by Petr Prirodin, Vladimir Devyatov and Evgeny Kotlov.

Three hockey players of the Chelyabinsk "Traktor" at the turn of the 70-80s became world champions, directly involved in the USSR national team from "Traktor": forward Sergei Makarov (World Cup-78), defenders Sergei Starikov (World Cup-79) and Nikolai Makarov (World Cup -81). Sergey Starikov and Sergey Makarov have won more than a dozen gold medals each as part of the USSR national team at the World Championships, Europe and the Olympic Games. Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper in the country, and in 1988 in Calgary he became the Olympic champion, and in 1986, 1989 and 1990 - three times world champion.

The next bronze era in the history of the club began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in the history of "Tractor" Valery Belousov, the team twice in a row - in 1993 and 1994 - won the "bronze" of the national championship, and also won bronze medals in the MHL Cup. Moreover, in both cases, Dynamo Moscow stood in the way of Traktor, which really claimed the championship. Chelyabinsk still remembers those epic battles.

In addition, before the 1991/1993 season, Traktor took part in the first ever Romazan Memorial in Magnitogorsk, where he reached the final and lost in shootouts to local Metallurg (5: 6).

In December 1993 "Traktor" again took part in the Spengler Cup. In the starting game, the team lost to the hosts from the Swiss Davos (7: 8), then beat the Canadian national team (3: 1) and the Finnish Jokerit Helsinki (4: 1), but in the fourth match group stage could not cope with the future winner of the tournament Swedish "Färjestad Karlstad BK" (3: 6). As a result, the Chelyabinsk team did not make it to the final, taking only third place.

In addition, in 1993, five hockey players from Traktor became world champions at once: goalkeeper Andrei Zuev, defender Andrei Sapozhnikov, forwards Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Igor Varitsky and Valery Karpov. Then no one could have imagined that this "gold" would be the last for Russia at the world championships for a long fourteen years, and that the next time the Russian team would become the world champion only in 2008. Vyacheslav Bykov, a trainee of the Chelyabinsk Tractor, led the Russian national team to this title at the 2008 World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup, Bykov's team managed to win the world "gold" for the second time in a row.

Since the 1995 season, "Traktor" began to slowly enter the crisis period. Reaching the final of the 1997 Romazan Preseason Memorial, where the Chelyabinsk team again lost to the derby to Magnitka (4: 5), was the club's last significant achievement for years to come. And in the 1998/1999 season, the team left the Super League. As it turned out later - for seven long years.

In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons, Traktor twice unsuccessfully tried to complete the task of returning to the Super League. And only on the third attempt, in the 2005/2006 season, the goal was achieved. Gennady Tsygurov's team confidently played the whole season, and in the semifinal series for a ticket to the elite they beat the Penza "Dieselist".

Since the 2006/2007 season, Traktor has been writing its newest history. In the first championship since returning from the top league, Gennady Tsygurov's team successfully coped with the task of retaining a place in the elite of Russian hockey.

The following year, the club's management made a bet on the young Andrei Nazarov, who became the twentieth head coach in the history of Traktor. With Nazarov, the team in the first season of his work from the 14th place in the regular season reached the playoffs - for the first time in ten years. Alas, in the first round the Chelyabinsk team lost to CSKA in three matches. In 2008, "Traktor" entered the Continental hockey league and again made it to the playoffs, this time from a higher 12th place. But he lost again in the 1/8 finals. And again in three matches. This time - to the Mytishchi "Atlant".

In the 2008/2009 season, another event of the greatest importance for Chelyabinsk hockey took place. On January 17, 2009, the Traktor Arena with a capacity of 7,500 spectators was opened. In their debut meeting in the new palace, the black-and-whites played with their principal rival, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, and won with a score of 3: 2.

The 2009/2010 season was not easy for Traktor. The recognized leaders left the team, the team had to fight for a ticket to the playoffs until the last round, but Andrei Nazarov's wards successfully completed this task. In the second Gagarin Cup, spectators witnessed the South Ural derby - Traktor was opposed by Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Having lost in two away matches, in the third, on home ice the Chelyabinsk team snatched a 2: 1 overtime victory, but the next day in overtime, Magnitka won, which went on.

In April 2010, Andrei Nazarov was replaced by Andrei Sidorenko as head coach of Traktor, but he did not work with the team for six months.

On October 8, 2010, an event took place that can truly be considered historical. Valery Belousov was appointed the head coach of Traktor. The parting of one of the best Russian coaches from his native club lasted more than 15 years. In his first season, the eminent mentor failed to lead the team to the playoffs. Traktor finished the championship in ninth place in their conference.

However, everything was more than redeemed by the 2011/2012 season, in which Chelyabinsk had a completely different team. Traktor finished the regular season in first place and won its first trophy in modern history - the Continent Cup. And in the playoffs only in the semifinals he was stopped by Avangard Omsk and won bronze medals, repeating his highest achievements of 1977, 1993 and 1994.

In addition, 20-year-old Traktor striker Evgeny Kuznetsov won the World Championship in Sweden and Finland as a member of the Russian national team, becoming the first hockey player of the Chelyabinsk club since 1993 to win gold at the planetary forum.

This is how Traktor approached the 2012/2013 season, which will become the 65th anniversary season for the club.

Club achievements
1956 - Champion of the third winter sports festival of trade unions
1957 - Finalist of the tournament for the prizes of the newspaper "Soviet Sport"
1970 - Winner of the Miner's Cup. Katowice, Poland
1973 - USSR Cup finalist
1974 - Silver medalist of the Spengler Cup. Davos, Switzerland
1977 - Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship
1992 - Finalist of the Romazan Memorial. Magnitogorsk
1993 - Bronze medalist of the International Hockey League Championship
1993 - Bronze medalist of the Spengler Cup. Davos, Switzerland
1994 - Bronze medalist of the International Hockey League Championship
1994 - Bronze medalist of the International Hockey League Cup
1996 - Bronze medalist of the Romazan Memorial. Magnitogorsk
1997 - Finalist of the Romazan Memorial. Magnitogorsk
2006 - Winner of the Major League Cup
2007 - Silver medalist of the Romazan Memorial. Magnitogorsk
2011 - Bronze medalist of the Romazan Memorial. Magnitogorsk
2012 - Continent Cup Winner
2012 - Bronze medals of the Gagarin Cup

All head coaches in club history
1 - Vasiliev Victor Nikolevich (1948 - 1952)
2 - Karelin Vasily Ivanovich (1952 - 1954)
3 - Captures Sergei Ivanovich (1954 - 1962)
4 - Sidorenko Nikolay Semenovich (1962 - 1964)
5 - Novokreshchenov Alexander Nikiforovich (1964)
6 - Stolyarov Viktor Ivanovich (1964 - 1965, 1968 - 1973)
7 - Smirnov Vladislav Leonidovich (1965)
8 - Danilov Albert Petrovich (1965/1966, 1973 - 1974)
9 - Anatoly Mikhailovich Kostryukov (1974 - 1978)
10 - Tsygurov Gennady Fedorovich (1978 - 1984, 1987 - 1989, July 2005 - March 2007)
11 - Shustov Anatoly Nikolaevich (1984 - 1987)
12 - Belousov Valery Konstantinovich (1990 - 1995, October 8, 2010 - present)
13 - Kartaev Anatoly Zinovievich (1995/1996)
14 - Grigorkin Sergei Mikhailovich (1995 - 1999)
15 - Timofeev Anatoly Grigorievich (2000/01, 2003 - January 2005)
16 - Paramonov Sergey Viktorovich (2001)
17 - Glazkov Alexander Stepanovich (2001/2002)
18 - Makarov Nikolay Mikhailovich (2003/2004)
19 - Bogdanov Anatoly Vasilievich (January - July 2005)
20 - Nazarov Andrey Viktorovich (April 5, 2007 - April 8, 2010)
21 - Sidorenko Andrey Mikhailovich (April 23, 2010 - October 8, 2010)

Photography - Traktor's official website

Hockey club "Traktor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he performed under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (1948-1953), "Avangard" (1954-1958). The club has been named "Traktor" since the 1958/1959 season.

The Chelyabinsk team made their debut in the national championship on January 1, 1948, when they took part in the tournament of the teams of the second group. In the first season, the team won the right to compete in the first group. December 12, 1948 - the day of the Chelyabinsk "Dzerzhintsy" debut in the top league. The first rival of the team was the national champion CDKA. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the first goal of the Chelyabinsk team in the Major League. The best scorer in the first season is Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team in one of the three with Vsevolod Bobrov and Yevgeny Babich.

Sergei Zakhvatov in the 50s became the first Chelyabinsk citizen to be awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR (in Soviet hockey Zakhvatov became the fourth coach to receive such an honor).

In the 1954/1955 season, Avangard took the honorable fourth place in the elite league for the first time. In the 1961/1962 season, Traktor defeated the famous CSKA for the first time. In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 "Traktor" played in the second group. The team was returned to the first group by coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov.

The seventies became the golden era in the Soviet history of "Traktor". In 1973, the team made it to the USSR Cup final for the first time. In the crowded Luzhniki Stadium on September 6, 1973, Albert Danilov's team played against CSKA. In the battle with the eminent rival, the Chelyabinsk team even led 2: 0, but lost 2: 5. Then the team was coached by the honored coach of the USSR Anatoly Kostryukov for four seasons. In the 1976/1977 season, for the first time in the club's history, Kostryukov brought Traktor to bronze medals.

Three hockey players of the Chelyabinsk "Tractor" at the turn of the 70-80s. became world champions, directly involved in the USSR national team from "Traktor": striker Sergei Makarov (World Cup-78), defenders Sergei Starikov (World Cup-79) and Nikolai Makarov (World Cup-81). Sergey Starikov and Sergey Makarov have won more than a dozen gold medals each as part of the USSR national team at the World Championships, Europe and the Olympic Games. Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper in the country, and in 1988 in Calgary he became the Olympic champion, and in 1986 and 1989 - twice the world champion.

from the site http://www.hctraktor.ru/

Black, white 1947 - 1953 - "Dzerzhinets"
1953 - 1958 - "Vanguard"
1958 - ... - "Tractor"

History

As you might guess, "Tractor" got its name, as it was founded on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1947. True, the first names of the team were "Dzerzhinets" and "Vanguard". The club became known as "Tractor" from the 1958/59 season.

In the first season the Chelyabinsk club won the right to play in the first group of A-class teams. For the first time to come close to the leaders, “Tractor” was in the 1954/55 season, when the club finished fourth. In 1972, Chelyabinsk citizens managed to become finalists of the Spengler Cup. A year later, "Traktor" reached the final of the USSR Cup. In the decisive match, the Chelyabinsk team played with CSKA and even led the meeting with a score of 2: 0, but in the end lost with a score of 5: 2. "Traktor" won the medals of the USSR championship in the 1976/77 season, when the team won bronze medals. Hockey players "Traktor" often fell under the banner of the national team with which they won world championships and the Olympic Games.

After the formation of the JHL, "Tractor" managed to become the bronze medalist twice in the seasons 1992/93 and 1993/94. In the 1999 season, "Traktor" flew to the Major League, and managed to return to the elite only in the 2005/06 season.

The regular season of the first KHL draw in the 2008/09 season started really well for Traktor. The Chelyabinsk team was in the top ten for a long time, but it did not do so well at the end of the championship and took twelfth place in the regular championship. In the first round of the playoffs "Traktor" went to Mytishchi "Atlant". The Moscow Region team turned out to be head and shoulders above the Chelyabinsk team, having won three matches with a total score of 13: 2.

The next season turned out to be difficult, primarily due to financial difficulties in the team. Traktor's budget was cut by thirty percent, as a result of which a number of its leaders left the club, including best player last season Oleg Kvasu. Despite the fact that the “Tractor” scored only sixty-four points, the club still managed to break into the playoffs. In the first round, the Chelyabinsk team met with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, to whom they lost 3: 1. And already in the 2010/11 season, “Traktor” did not manage to break into the playoffs at all with the same sixty-four points.

In the 2011/12 season, "Tractor" was perhaps the main discovery. In the summer, the Chelyabinsk club had a fruitful transfer campaign, managing to sign such star players as Bulis, Chistov, Garnett and Kontiola. Having started the regular championship neither shaky nor shaky, “Traktor” with each next match showed more and more confident hockey. For many fans, it was a real shock that the Chelyabinsk residents won the Continent Cup. “Traktor” scored one hundred and fourteen points, ahead of St. Petersburg SKA by only one credit point. In the first round of the playoffs, the rival of the Chelyabinsk team was the Khanty-Mansiysk “Yugra”, which managed to win only one match out of five. And the third match of the series will be remembered by many, when “Traktor” managed to win 7: 6, losing in the course of the match 2: 6. Then "Tractor" met with Kazan "Ak Bars", but the two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup fell under the onslaught of Chelyabinsk residents. A grueling streak with Kazan played a role in the Eastern Conference final, where Traktor lost to Avangard Omsk in five matches. At the end of the season, Traktor won bronze medals for the first time since 1994.

In the 2012/13 season, the Chelyabinsk club managed to keep Evgeny Kuznetsov, whom many had already wooed in the NHL. Traktor finished the regular season in third place in the Eastern Conference. In the playoffs "Traktor" won the Eastern Conference Cup and reached the final of the Gagarin Cup for the first time. On the way to the first final in the history of the Chelyabinsk club were beaten: Astana "Barys" (score in the series 4-3), Omsk "Avangard" (score in the series 4-1) and Kazan "Ak Bars" (score in the series 4-3 ). In the final of the Gagarin Cup, “tractor drivers” played against Moscow “Dynamo”, which they lost in a stubborn series with a score of 2-4, thereby winning silver medals for the first time in its history and an honorable second place in the Continental Hockey League championship. This result was the best in the history of the Chelyabinsk team.

But Traktor did not manage to hold on to the leading positions. In the summer, the team was seriously renewed, and not in better side... As a result, “Traktor” failed to make it to the playoffs, finishing in nineteenth place in the general table of the regular season.

Awards and achievements

KHL Continent Cup Winner: 2011/12
KHL silver medalist: 2012/13
KHL bronze medalist: 2011/12
Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship: 1976/77
Bronze medalist of the JHL championship: 1992/1993, 1993/1994