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

Chelyabinsk residents made their debut in the national championship on January 1, 1948, when they took part in the tournament of teams of the second group. In the first season, the team won the right to compete in the first group. December 12, 1948 is the day of the debut of Chelyabinsk “Dzerzhinets” in the major league. The team's first opponent was the national champion CDKA. The author of the first goal for the Chelyabinsk team in the major league was Georgy Zhenishek. The top scorer in the first season was Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team in the same trio with Vsevolod Bobrov and Evgeniy Babich.

In the 50s, Sergei Zakhvatov became the first Chelyabinsk resident 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 an 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. Coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov returned the team to the first group.

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

Three hockey players from Chelyabinsk “Traktor” at the turn of the 70-80s. became world champions, directly recruited to 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 each won more than a dozen gold medals as members of the USSR national team at the World, European and Olympic Games. Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper in the country, and in 1988 in Calgary he became an Olympic champion, and in 1986 and 1989 - twice world champion.

The next golden era in the club's history began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in Traktor history, Valery Belousov, the team twice in a row - in 1993 and 1994 - became the bronze medalist of the national championship. In addition, in 1993, five Traktor hockey players became world champions: 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 Russia’s last at the World Championships for fourteen long years.

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 became only fourth.

Since the 1995 season, Traktor began to slowly enter a period of crisis. 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 achieve the goal of returning to the super league. And only in the 2005/2006 season the problem was solved. Gennady Tsygurov’s team confidently played the entire season, and in the semi-final series they beat Penza “Dizelist”, and officially returned to the super league.

In the 2006/2007 season, Traktor successfully coped with the task of maintaining its place in the Super League. Since 2008, he has been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League - KHL.

According to the press service of Traktor Holding Company.

STATISTICS

Performances of HC "Traktor" in the elite of Russian hockey

P.S. Seasons spent by the team in the lower leagues were not taken into account. Wins in overtime and shootouts are counted in the table as wins, losses in overtime and shootouts as losses. Full statistics of games for the season have been calculated: regular season plus playoffs. The “place” column indicates in parentheses the number of teams that took part in the championship. The seasons when the team won medals are highlighted in red.

Legend in the table:

AND- games. IN- winnings. N- draws. P- defeats. ABOUT- glasses.

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Encyclopedia

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

Chelyabinsk residents made their debut in the national championship in the 1947/1948 season, when they took part in the tournament of teams of the second group. In the first match in the club's history, Dzerzhinets' opponent was 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 compete in the first group.

December 12, 1948 is the day of Dzerzhinets’ debut in the major league. The team's first opponent was the national champion CDKA. The Chelyabinsk team even led 2:0, but in the end they still lost 2:3. The author of the club's first goal in the major league was Georgiy Zhenishek. The top scorer in the first season was 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, taking fourth place. The next year the team was fifth and for the first time in its history finished the championship with a positive goal difference. In addition, in the spring of 1956, Avangard became the champion of the third Winter Trade Union Spartakiad.

And in the 1956/1957 season he again took fourth place. In the same season, a hockey player from Chelyabinsk was invited to the national team for the first time. Anatoly Olkov forever inscribed his name in history. He made his debut in the USSR national team on February 10, 1957 in a match against Sweden. The game ended in victory for 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 they lost to the Moscow CSK MO (6:12).

In November 1957, Avangard head coach Sergei Zakhvatov was the first Chelyabinsk resident to be awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR. In Soviet hockey, Zakhvatov became the fourth coach to receive such an 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 held for the first time according to a formula reminiscent of the current one. Traktor took second place in the Ural-Siberian group and advanced to the playoffs, where they met Lokomotiv Moscow in the quarterfinals. The first match ended in favor of the Chelyabinsk team - 3:2, but in the series of up to two victories, the railway workers still prevailed.

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

In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968, Traktor played in the second group. Coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov returned the team to the first group.

The seventies became the bronze era 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 Janow (10:4), as well as the East German Dynamo (9:5). The 1971/1972 season brought the team fifth place and reaching the semi-finals of the National Cup. And in 1973, Traktor made it to the final of the USSR Cup for the first time. On the way to the decisive match, the Chelyabinsk team knocked out Dynamo Kiev (7:2), Dynamo Riga (4:2) and Spartak Moscow (9:4).

On September 6, 1973, in a crowded Luzhniki stadium that accommodated 12,000 spectators, Albert Danilov’s team played with CSKA. In the battle with an eminent opponent, Traktor led 2:1 after two periods, but failed in the third and eventually lost 2:6. It is interesting that not a single non-Moscow team in history has ever managed to win the USSR Cup, held from 1951 to 1988, and in addition to Traktor, only Gorky’s Torpedo (1961), Leningrad’s SKA (1968) and Voskresensk’s Khimik "(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 in Europe, held in Davos, Switzerland, on New Year's Eve since 1923. In the 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 Slovak “ 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 the new head coach, the team finished seventh. And in the 1976/1977 season, Kostryukov led Traktor to bronze medals in the national championship for the first time in the club’s history.

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, forwards Valery Belousov (team captain) , Nikolay Betz, Vladimir Borodulin, Yuri Valetsky, Anatoly Egorkin, Valery Evstifeev, Anatoly Kartaev, Anatoly Makhinko, Sergey Makarov, Boris Molchanov, Mikhail Prirodin, Nikolay Shorin and Yuri Shumakov.

In the next season, which became Anatoly Kostryukov’s last 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 Krylya Sovetov and finished the tournament in fourth position.

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

Three hockey players from Chelyabinsk "Traktor" at the turn of the 70-80s became world champions, directly recruited to 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 each won more than a dozen gold medals as members of the USSR national team at the World, European and Olympic Games. Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper in the country, and in 1988 in Calgary he became an Olympic champion, and in 1986, 1989 and 1990 - three times world champion.

The next bronze era in the club's history began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best forwards in Traktor history, Valery Belousov, the team won bronze in the national championship twice in a row - in 1993 and 1994 - and also won bronze medals in the MHL Cup. Moreover, in both cases, Dynamo Moscow stood in the way of Traktor, which really aspired to 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 it reached the final and lost in shootouts to the local Metallurg (5:6).

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

In addition, in 1993, five Traktor hockey players became world champions: 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 fourteen long years and that the next time the Russian team would become world champion only in 2008. Vyacheslav Bykov, a graduate of Chelyabinsk Traktor, led the Russian national team to this title at the 2008 World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup, Bykov's team managed to win world gold for the second time in a row.

Since the 1995 season, Traktor began to slowly enter a period of crisis. Reaching the final of the pre-season Romazan Memorial 1997, where the Chelyabinsk team again lost the derby to Magnitka (4:5), became the club's last significant achievement for the 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 achieve the goal 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 entire season, and in the semi-final series they beat Penza “Dizelist” for a ticket to the elite.

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

The very next year, the club's management relied on the young Andrei Nazarov, who became the twentieth head coach in the history of Traktor. With Nazarov, in his first season, the team went from 14th place in the regular season to 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 Kontinental 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 Mytishchi “Atlant”.

In the 2008/2009 season, another important event for Chelyabinsk hockey took place. On January 17, 2009, the Traktor Arena, which seats 7,500 spectators, was opened. In the debut match 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 very difficult for Traktor. Recognized leaders left the team, the team had to fight for a place in the playoffs until the last round, but Andrei Nazarov’s team successfully completed this task. In the second drawing of the Gagarin Cup, spectators witnessed the South Ural derby - Traktor faced Magnitogorsk Metallurg. Having lost in two away matches, in the third, on home ice, the Chelyabinsk team snatched a victory in overtime with a score of 2:1, but the next day Magnitka won in overtime, which moved on.

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

On October 8, 2010, an event occurred that can truly be considered historical. Valery Belousov was appointed head coach of Traktor. The separation of one of the best Russian coaches from his native club lasted more than 15 years. In his first season, the eminent coach failed to lead the team to the playoffs. Traktor finished the championship in ninth place in its 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 recent history - the Continental Cup. And in the playoffs, only in the semi-finals was he stopped by Omsk Avangard and won bronze medals, repeating his highest achievements of 1977, 1993 and 1994.

In addition, 20-year-old Traktor forward Evgeny Kuznetsov, as part of the Russian national team, won the world championship in Sweden and Finland, becoming the first hockey player from the Chelyabinsk club since 1993 to win gold at the planetary forum.

This is how Traktor approached the 2012/2013 season, which will be the club’s anniversary, the 65th in history.

Club achievements
1956 – Champion of the third Winter Spartakiad of trade unions
1957 – Finalist of the tournament for the prizes of the newspaper “Soviet Sport”
1970 – Winner of the Miner Cup. Katowice, Poland
1973 – Finalist of the USSR Cup
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 – Winner of the Continental Cup
2012 – Bronze medals of the Gagarin Cup

All head coaches in the club's history
1 – Vasiliev Viktor Nikolevich (1948 – 1952)
2 – Karelin Vasily Ivanovich (1952 – 1954)
3 – Zakhvatov Sergey 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 – Anatoly Zinovievich Kartaev (1995/1996)
14 – Grigorkin Sergey 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 – Anatoly Vasilievich Bogdanov (January – July 2005)
20 – Andrey Viktorovich Nazarov (April 5, 2007 – April 8, 2010)
21 – Sidorenko Andrey Mikhailovich (April 23, 2010 – October 8, 2010)

Photo - Traktor official website

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

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

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 medalist of the Championship (Cup) of the International Hockey League

1994 - Bronze medalists of the International Hockey League Championship

2004 - Bronze medalists of the Major League of the Russian Championship

2006 - Winners of the Major League of the Russian Championship

2012 - Continental Cup Winners

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

2013 - Eastern Conference Cup Winners

2013 - Silver medalist 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 hockey clubs in the country.

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

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

On January 1, 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) played the first official match in history. The team hosts Gorky's Torpedo in Chelyabinsk. Six (!) goals by Peter Chernenko, “poker” by the future Olympic champion Viktor Shuvalov (who also became the author of the first goal in the history of the Chelyabinsk club) and a goal by Sergei Zakhvatov brought the hosts an 11:2 victory. Two days later the opponents play the second match. It also ends with the home team winning. This time - 7:4. Another “poker” for Viktor Shuvalov, a double for Sergei Zakhvatov, and one goal for Pyotr Chernenko.

The first cast of Traktor (Dzerzhinets) will go down in history forever. Goalkeepers: Boris Rebyansky, Mikhail Peshkov; defenders: Alexander Yashchenko, Viktor Vasilyev (captain, player-coach), Sergey Zakhvatov, Evgeny Rogov, Mikhail Petrov, Nikolay Yashchenkov; forwards: Vladimir Shtyrkov, Alexander Ponomarev, Pyotr 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. Petr Chernenko scored five goals, Viktor Shuvalov scored a hat-trick. This victory still remains the largest in the history of the Chelyabinsk club. Almost four years later, on December 7, 1951, Chelyabinsk suffered the biggest defeat in its history from the Moscow Air Force (2:20).

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

On December 12, 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) made its debut in the elite of Soviet hockey in a match with the current champion CDKA. 6,000 spectators are watching the game in Chelyabinsk. Georgy Zhenishek opens the scoring in the tenth minute (this is the club's first goal at the highest level). Leonid Stepanov increases his team's lead in the sixteenth. The home team leads 2:0 after the first period. 2:1 - after the second. But in the third they concede twice more and lose (2:3).

On December 18, 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) won its first match at the highest level. Riga Dynamo was defeated in Chelyabinsk (3:2). Due to the cold, the match is played in an unusual format - six periods of ten minutes each. The victory for the hosts was brought by a double by Viktor Shuvalov and a goal by Leonid Stepanov. However, Dynamo protests the result and seeks 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 scored a double each, Leonid Stepanov scored the goal.

In 18 matches of its first season in the elite, the Chelyabinsk club scores 14 points (5 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses, goals 45:58) and finishes in 7th place (out of ten possible). Only Moscow CDKA, VVS MVO, Dynamo, Krylya Sovetov and Spartak, as well as Riga Dynamo, are higher.

February 24, 1954 Traktor (Avangard) plays the first international match in its history. On home ice, Vasily Karelin’s team beats the GDR team (6:2). Victory for the hosts was brought by a double from Viktor Sokolov and goals from Rudolf Dokumentov, Boris Glushkov, Nikolai Linyaev and Boris Semenov.

Since 1955, hockey players from the Chelyabinsk club began to be invited to the USSR national team. The pioneer is the forward Rudolf Documentov, who, as part of the second national team, is participating in a tour of Germany and Holland. In March 1956, as members of the USSR student team, Nikolai Ulanov, Eduard Polyakov, Anatoly Olkov, Vladimir Karavdin, Rudolf Documentov, Viktor Sokolov, Valery Kiselyov and coach Sergei Zakhvatov won the World University Games in Warsaw. In November 1957, Anatoly Olkov became the first Chelyabinsk player in the main USSR national team. He is taking part in the first ever tour of Canada. And a little later, in September 1962, Gennady Tsygurov, Stanislav Malkov and Viktor Kungurtsev played 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 took 4th place in the elite of domestic hockey, losing only to the Moscow teams CSK MO, Krylya Sovetov and Dynamo. In 1956, the Chelyabinsk team was fifth, and in 1957 they repeated their success, beating Moscow Spartak and ODO Leningrad. These achievements bring the Chelyabinsk hockey players the title of Master of Sports of the USSR, and the senior coach Sergei Zakhvatov - the title of Honored Coach of the USSR and certificate for No. 4, the first three - for Anatoly Tarasov, Arkady Chernyshev and Vladimir Egorov.

In January 1958, Traktor (Vanguard) went on its first foreign tour. The team travels to the GDR, where in a week they play six matches in four cities (Weiswasser, Dresden, Berlin and Krimichau) 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 Weisswasser (3:1) and Bismuth " and "Einheta" (6:0). In the future, such tours become regular. "Traktor" travels to Czechoslovakia, Finland, Romania, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Canada, USA, Italy, Yugoslavia.

Based on the results of the 1958/1959 season, a list of the 34 best hockey players of the USSR was compiled for the first time. It includes Traktor goalkeeper Yuri Nikonov and 17-year-old forward Viktor Kungurtsev, who with 12 goals became one of his team’s best snipers.

On February 7, 1962, Traktor beat CSKA at home (5:4) in a fantastic match, returning to the game from 0:3. Viktor Kungurtsev scores the winning goal in the 56th minute. The match is watched live by 5,500 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 fewest goals (75), and concedes the most goals (183). In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968, Traktor played in the second group.

On November 3, 1967, the Yunost Sports Palace opened in Chelyabinsk, which became Traktor’s home for forty years. The palace was built according to a revised design of the sports palace in Minsk; construction work has been going on since September 1966. “Traktor” finishes out the 1967/1968 season at the old outdoor skating rink at ChTZ, and in the new one, having already returned to the major league, it moves to “Yunost”. On September 15, 1968, in the first match of the season and the first in the history of the new palace, Traktor hosted Dynamo Kiev and achieved a victory (2:1). The author of the first goal in Yunost was Yuri Potekhov from Kiev. The author of Traktor's first goal was Vyacheslav Nesterov, who equalized the score in the 36th minute. Nikolai Betz brings 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 has excellent decisive matches in March, where they successfully play with key rivals: Dizelist in Chelyabinsk (1:0 and 6:4) and Kristall in Elektrostal (2:2 and 5:2).

In the 1968/1969 season, Yuri Mogilnikov scores 44 goals and sets a new club sniper record, which has not yet been broken. The top three in history are 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 Nizhny Tagil Sputnik, played his first match for Traktor. In Moscow, Viktor Stolyarov’s team loses to Dynamo (3:5) - this club will become, perhaps, the main rival in Belousov’s coaching career in the future. Six days later, on October 16, 1971, in his second match in his new team, Belousov scored his first goal for Traktor. On this day, at the ChTZ stadium in the presence of 9,000 spectators, Traktor plays a draw with Spartak (5:5), the striker makes 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 local Dynamo as part of the tournament for 5-8 places. In the first game, Traktor loses (3:5), and Belousov scores a double, in the second, Traktor takes revenge (5:4), and the forward chalks up one goal. On May 7, 1982 in Chelyabinsk, as part of the same tournament for 5-8 places, Belousov played his last match for Traktor. The game with SKA ends in a draw (1:1). In the USSR, Belousov plays only in Traktor. In his first season in Chelyabinsk, Traktor became the best provincial team in the USSR championship, finishing fifth, right after the four Moscow clubs CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and Krylya Sovetov. Twice more during this period “Traktor” stopped one step away from the podium, in fourth place - in the 1977/1978 and 1980/1981 seasons. In 1973, the team played in the final of the USSR Cup, and in 1977 won bronze. In eleven seasons (1971/1972 - 1981/1982), Belousov played 443 matches, scored 240 goals and made 202 assists and wrote his name in the history of the club as the best scorer of all time. Currently, the “Sniper Club named after Valery Belousov” is organized at Traktor. His top 5 include:

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

On September 6, 1973, Traktor played in the final of the USSR Cup for the first time in its history. On the way to the final, Albert Danilov's team beats the local Dynamo (7:2) in the 1/8 finals in Kyiv, beats Riga Dynamo at home in the quarterfinals (4:2), and sensationally knocks out Spartak in the semifinals in Moscow. (9:4) due to a phenomenal game in the third period (6:1). In the final with CSKA in Moscow, Traktor leads 2:1 after two periods thanks to goals from 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 first place on January 3, 1974 they lost to Slovan (2 :4). On January 5 and 6, Traktor again plays against Slovan (in regular exhibition matches in Arese and Basel) and wins twice (4:3 and 6:2). In December 1993, Traktor participated in the Spengler Cup for the second time and took third place.

In September 1976, Traktor forward Valery Belousov played for the USSR national team in the first ever Canada Cup. Belousov's partners on the team led by Viktor Tikhonov are Vladislav Tretyak, Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov, Valery Vasiliev, Sergei Babinov, Vladimir Krikunov, Alexander Maltsev, Helmut Balderis, Boris Alexandrov. The USSR plays its first three matches in Montreal. On September 3, the USSR loses to Czechoslovakia (3:5), on September 5, it draws with Sweden (3:3), and on September 7, it beats Finland (11:2). On September 9 in Philadelphia it beats the USA (5:0). And finally, on September 9, in the final match in Toronto, they lost 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.

On January 6, 1974, Sergei Babinov becomes the first Traktor player to win the youth world championship. The first tournament in history is considered unofficial and takes place in Leningrad. The first seven MFMs were won by the USSR. 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). Subsequently, seven more current 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 medals at the USSR Championship (bronze). The team of Anatoly Kostryukov, ripe for big victories, wins 20 out of 36 matches and scores 45 points. “Traktor” is in the top 3 of the league in terms of defensive reliability (106 goals conceded 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 its main competitor at home, Dynamo Riga (4:2). The victory for the Chelyabinsk team was brought by goals from Anatoly Egorkin, Gennady Tsygurov, Valery Belousov, who converted the shootout, and Anatoly Kartaev. In the three remaining matches of the season, Traktor needs to take one point, the task is decided in Gorky on March 16, 1977.

Sergei 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 the champions of the last two years and are considered the favorites. But in the decisive match, on May 14, 1978, Viktor Tikhonov’s team achieves victory with the required score (3:1) and wins gold. 19-year-old Makarov plays in all ten championship matches and scores 5 (3+2) points. After this, only nine active Traktor players become world champions: Sergei Starikov (USSR, 1979), Nikolai Makarov (Sweden, 1981), Sergei Mylnikov (USSR, 1986 and Sweden, 1989), Andrei Zuev, Valery Karpov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Andrey Sapozhnikov, Igor Varitsky (all - Germany, 1993) and Evgeny Kuznetsov (Finland/Sweden, 2012).

In the 1979/1980 season, Traktor defender Nikolai Makarov scored 21 goals and became the best sniper among defensive players. Already in the 2000s, his record would be broken by Oleg Piganovich, who scored 22 times in the 2007/2008 season. In the 2008/2009 season, Barys defender Kevin Dallman set a new achievement - 28 goals.

The 1986/1987 season is the last in Traktor and the playing career of Yuri Shumakov, who becomes the record holder for the number of matches for the club. The universal hockey player spends 19 seasons in the Chelyabinsk club, plays more than 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, Anatoly Shustov’s team takes tenth place (out of twelve), and then loses in transition 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 Hockey Federation expanded the Major League to 14 teams, additionally retaining Traktor in it and giving a place to Torpedo from Ust-Kamenogorsk. In the summer, Gennady Tsygurov (assisted by Valery Belousov and Valery Kiselev) became the new head coach of the Chelyabinsk club, and in the 1987/1988 season Traktor took seventh place.

In February 1988, Sergei Mylnikov became the first (and so far only) Olympic champion as an active Traktor player. Mylnikov wins the games in Calgary, Canada. The Traktor 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, the leading roles are played by Vladimir Krutov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Valery Kamensky, as well as 19-year-old Alexander Mogilny, beat Norway (5:0), Austria ( 8:1), USA (7:5), Germany (6:3) and Czechoslovakia (6:1). At the final stage, the USSR beats Canada (5:0) and after defeating Sweden (7:1) secures gold with one round left. The defeat in the final match from Finland (1:2) means nothing. Mylnikov has 8 matches in the tournament and 13 goals conceded in total.

Six years later, Traktor makes history once again. A unique case: six club players 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 team remains without medals - it takes fourth place.

In 1989, for the first time in the history of the club, Traktor players were selected in the NHL draft. Sergei Mylnikov - in the 7th round with the overall number 127 of the Quebec Nordiques, Sergei Gomolyako - in the 9th round with the overall number 189 of the Calgary Flames. Mylnikov becomes the first Soviet goaltender in the NHL, but his career in North America is limited to ten games. Gomolyako spends his entire career in Russia, where he becomes one of the most notable players of the nineties.

On March 17, 1990, Valery Belousov became acting head coach of Traktor. This appointment changes the history of the club. Belousov's first match as head coach was 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 from a pass from Sergei Gomolyako. In 14 matches of Belousov’s first season, Traktor wins ten victories, finishes third in the transition, behind Ust-Kamenogorsk and Kazan, and retains its place in the elite.

Valery Belousov has been working with Traktor for two historical periods, totaling 524 official matches. The first period lasted from March 17, 1990 to June 1995. The second - from October 8, 2010 to April 30, 2014. With Belousov as head coach, Traktor won bronze in 1993 and 1994, the Continental Cup and bronze in 2012, and in 2013 reached the final Gagarin Cup.

In the spring of 1993, Traktor won medals at the national championship for the second time in its history - again bronze. At the first stage of the 1992/1993 season, Valery Belousov's team, filled with juice, wins the fourth zone by a large 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 beats Sokol Kiev (2-1), in the second round it wins the derby against Magnitogorsk (2-0), and then loses to Dynamo Moscow in a dramatic semi-final (1-2) .

Traktor forwards Igor Varitsky and Igor Fedulov are among 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. In 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 changes. In the quarterfinals, Russia beats Germany (5:1), in the semifinals it beats 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 repeated its bronze success. The team takes third place in the first stage, losing six points to Lada and one to Dynamo Moscow. In the first round of the Traktor MHL Cup, held separately from the championship, Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod (2-0) passes, in the second round - Torpedo from Yaroslavl (2-0), and in the semi-finals it again loses to Dynamo Moscow (0 -2). Sergey Tertyshny and Andrey Sapozhnikov were recognized as the best defenders of the season, Valery Karpov - the best forward.

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

In the 2005/2006 season, Traktor wins the Major League and returns to the elite division. Gennady Tsygurov’s team is confidently progressing through the championship and playoffs, in the semi-final series they will beat Penza “Dizelist” and officially return to the super league. The bonus is a victory in the final over Krylia Sovetov (3-2) and winning the Major League Cup.

On January 10, 2009, forward Andrei Nikolishin became the first ever representative of Traktor at the All-Star Game. The first KHL All-Star Game takes place in Moscow on an ice rink built on Red Square that can accommodate 4,000 spectators. Nikolishin plays for Alexey Yashin's team, which contains the best Russian players in the league. The team of Jaromir Jagr, where the best foreign players 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 Traktor representatives 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 Francouz
2018 - Paul Szczechura

On January 17, 2009, the Traktor Arena opened in Chelyabinsk for 7,500 spectators. In the opening match, Traktor of Andrey Nazarov beat Magnitogorsk Metallurg of Valery Belousov (3:2). The author of the first goal in the new arena is the Austrian defender of the black and white Andre Lakos, Oleg Kvasha scores a double for Traktor. Six years later, in June 2015, the Arena was named after Valery Belousov

The 2011/2012 season gives fans a new strong Traktor. The team of Valery Belousov (who returned to Chelyabinsk fifteen years later back in the 2010/2011 season) scores 114 points, wins the Eastern Conference and the Continental Cup - as the best team of the regular season, and then goes for medals. In the first round of the Gagarin Cup, Traktor passes Yugra (4-1), in the second round - Ak Bars (4-2), but stops in the semi-finals with Avangard (1-4).

On January 13, 2013, Chelyabinsk hosts the fifth KHL All-Star Game in history. The stellar weekend starts at the Traktor Arena the day before with the Match of Legends, in which Sergei Makarov’s team plays a draw with Vyacheslav Fetisov’s team (4:4) in the presence of 6,000 spectators; and then the West defeats the East in a master show. The next day, Alexey Morozov's team beats Ilya Kovalchuk's team (18:11), Evgeniy Kuznetsov scored a double for the winners, and Deron Quint scored a double. One of the East's goalies is Michael Garnett. One of the coaches is Valery Belousov. The game attracts a full house.

In the 2012/2013 season, Valery Belousov leads Traktor to the final of the Gagarin Cup. This is the highest achievement in the club's history. The team finishes third in the Eastern Conference. In the first round of the playoffs, Barys (4-3) passes, in the second - Avangard (4-1), and in the semi-finals, losing during the series 0-2 and 1-3 - Ak Bars (4 -3). The final against Dynamo Moscow becomes an epic. On April 7 and 8, Traktor loses the opening matches in Moscow (1:2 and 2:3). On April 11 in Chelyabinsk they reduce the gap in the series (3:1), but the next day they lose at home (0:1). On April 15 in Moscow, the black and whites again reduce the gap (4:3). The fate of the Cup is decided in the sixth match of the series, on April 17 in Chelyabinsk. Victory in overtime (3:2) brings Oleg Znarok the Dynamo trophy. The KHL names Valery Nichushkin as the best rookie of the season.

On February 16, 2016, 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, 11 months and 4 days old. According to this indicator, Quint is ahead of ex-Traktor players Andrei Zuev (39 years, 10 months and 30 days), Sergei Khrushchev (39 years, 3 months and 27 days) and Andrei Balandin (39 years, 2 months and 24 days). The 2015/2016 season becomes the last for the American in Traktor and the KHL. The defender’s background includes 5 seasons for black and white, 311 matches (the best figure among foreign players), 143 (57+86) points, bronze and the 2012 Continental Cup, the 2013 Gagarin Cup final.

On November 23, 2015, Anvar Gatiyatulin, who twice won bronze at the Kharlamov Cup with the Polar Bears, becomes the acting head coach of Traktor. He is the 25th head coach in the history of the club after Viktor Vasiliev, 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 Kartaev, Sergey Grigorkin, Anatoly Timofeev, Sergey Paramonov, Alexander Glazkov, Nikolai Makarov, Anatoly Bogdanov, Andrey Nazarov, Andrey Sidorenko, Curry Kiwi and Andrey Nikolishin.

During the 2017/2018 season, 26-year-old striker Alexey Kruchinin becomes the 50th captain in the history of Traktor. In the absence of the injured main captain of the black and white Alexander Shinin, Kruchinin wears the 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 very serious company: the first captain of the Chelyabinsk club was Viktor Vasilyev, in addition, in different years and periods of history, the captains of Traktor were Sergey Zakhvatov, Gennady Tsygurov, Anatoly Kartaev, Nikolay Betz, Valery Belousov, Yuri Shumakov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Maxim Smelnitsky, Vladimir Vorontsov, Vladimir Antipov and Evgeny Kuznetsov.

On October 14, 2017, in a match with Slovan from Bratislava, the black and whites won their 1000th victory in the history of the top division of the National Championships. "Traktor" beat the opponent with a minimal advantage of 2:1, the winning goal was scored by Alexey Kruchinin.

On December 25 and 27, 2017, Traktor celebrates its 70th anniversary with matches against Dynamo Minsk and Lokomotiv. The largest media cube in the KHL begins operating at the Valery Belousov Arena; a capsule with messages for the 100th anniversary of the club in 2047 has been laid.

On March 7, 2018, having defeated Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk with a score of 3:2, Traktor ended the longest 10-match winning streak in recent history. The series began with a 3:0 victory for Traktor 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 the 4th victory in a seven-game series with “Salavat Yulaev” 2:1, the winning goal was scored by Venus Videll, securing bronze medals of the KHL Championship. In the conference finals, Traktor lost 0:4 in a series with Kazan Ak Bars, the future KHL champion and winner of the Gagarin Cup of the 2017/2018 season.

Vitaly Kravtsov set a new KHL scoring record 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 third among players under 20 years old after Maxim Afinogenov 19 years old 1999 -16 (10+6), Evgeniy Malkin 19 years old 2006 - 15 (5+10).