The parties expressed their readiness to jointly establish the ZhHL and to achieve the dream of taking women's hockey in Russia to a new level of development.

As for the women's league, when we talked, there was a certain situation that the KHL, FHR and Ruslan Gutnov would participate in the creation and development of this project.

On 23 April 2015, the FHR Executive Committee voted to transfer the rights to host the women's ice hockey Russian Championship to the KHL.

The departure of Shenzhen KRS, which featured sixteen Chinese and four Canadian players during the 2022–23 season, and the transfer of Hungarian-American forward Hayley Williams from Dinamo-Neva to Hokiklub Budapest in the European Women's Hockey League, left Czech defenseman Pavlína Horálková of Biryusa as the only foreign import player active in the 2023–24 ZhHL season.

In November 2023, Czech forward Alena Polenská signed with Agidel Ufa to bring the number of foreign nationals to two for the remainder of the season.

[10] In the 2024–25 season, there are two players with foreign citizenship active in the ZhHL: Czech defenseman Pavlína Horálková of Dinamo-Neva, and Russian-Latvian forward Alexandra Stolyarova of Belye Medveditsy.