[2] PutinTeam was first announced in a 2 November 2017 post on Ovechkin’s Instagram account, which has over one million followers.

[3][non-primary source needed] On 23 November, Ovechkin announced on his Instagram that the group's official website had been launched.

[1] On the soft launch of the site, visitors were encouraged to sign up for the team, track related news, participate in contests and attend and organize events.

However, Vedomosti, a Russian financial newspaper, reported that Kremlin sources have said that IMA-Consulting were behind the creation of the organization.

[4][6] In addition Alexander Ovechkin, the PutinTeam movement also included many Russian sportsmen, actors, musicians and social activists: Evgeni Malkin, Yelena Isinbayeva, Sergey Karjakin, Sergey Tetyukhin, Nikolay Rastorguyev, Polina Gagarina, Dima Bilan, Ilya Kovalchuk, Nyusha, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Bure, Evgeni Plushenko, Nikolay Baskov, Sergei Krikalev, Mikhail Galustyan, Alexander Legkov, Anton Shipulin, Ivan Tcherezov, Alexandr Karelin and others.