Immediately popular amongst the populace, the local sports society, Dynamo, decided to establish a hockey team.

They were promoted to the Soviet Championship League for the 1954–55 season, finishing in ninth place overall, out of ten teams.

[citation needed] In 1962, owing to financial difficulties, Dynamo merged with another team in Novosibirsk, Khimik.

[4] During the first decades of its history, Sibir was subsequently relegated between the elite and second-rate divisions of the Soviet and Russian hockey championships until it finally settled in the Superleague after the 2002–03 season.

[5] After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nick Shore and Harri Sateri elected to leave the team.