[citation needed] On 22 May 1992, former Soviet player Vladimir Petrov was elected president of the FHR.

On 21 April 2006, Steblin resigned, and former legendary Soviet goaltender three-time Olympic champion Vladislav Tretiak was elected president of the FHR.

[citation needed] On 21 August 2015, at an extraordinary conference of the FHR, decisions were made on changes in the structure of the management of the Federation.

[15][16][17][18][19] The Soviet Union entered its first Winter Olympics tournament in 1956, and was successful from the start, much due to the players having an earlier experience of bandy, also called "Russian hockey".

[citation needed] During the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, many Russian hockey players defected to the United States to play in the National Hockey League (NHL) with such notable players as Viacheslav Fetisov,[25] Alexander Mogilny,[26] and Sergei Federov.

[31] During this period the Russian national team, having won the 1993 World Championship, for a long time remained without medals at all.

On the map of Russia there are strong in the economic and organizational plan hockey centers: Novosibirsk, Omsk, Magnitogorsk, Yaroslavl, Ufa, Kazan, Chelyabinsk.

[citation needed] After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the International Ice Hockey Federation suspended Russia and Belarus from all levels of competition.