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 - Finalists of the Spengler Cup

1973 - Finalists of the USSR Cup

1977 - Bronze medalists of the USSR Championship

1993 - Bronze medalists 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 Championship of Russia

2006 - Winners of the Major League Championship of Russia

2012 - Continental Cup Winners

2012 - Bronze medalists of the Championship of the Continental Hockey League, Championship of Russia

2013 - Eastern Conference Cup Winners

2013 - Silver medalists of the Championship of the Continental Hockey League, Championship of Russia

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, on the initiative of the director of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Isaac Zaltsman, the first ice hockey section in Chelyabinsk and the South Urals was created in the voluntary sports society Dzerzhinets. 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 department of football and hockey of the All-Union Committee for physical culture and sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR approves the calendar of the USSR Championship 1947/1948 Canadian hockey in the second group. The factory team of ChTZ is included in the list of participants in the competition. On the basis of a directive from Moscow, Isaac Zaltsman by order releases the team members from their main place of work for the period of preparation and conduct of the competition.

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

January 1, 1948 "Tractor" ("Dzerzhinets") plays the first ever official match. The team takes the Gorky "Torpedo" in Chelyabinsk. Six (!) goals of Pyotr Chernenko, "poker" of the future Olympic champion Viktor Shuvalov (who also becomes the author of the first goal in the history of the Chelyabinsk club) and a goal by Sergei Zakhvatov bring the hosts an 11:2 victory. Two days later, the opponents play the second match. It also ends with the victory of the hosts. This time - 7:4. Viktor Shuvalov has one more "poker", Sergei Zakhvatov has a double, Petr Chernenko has one goal.

The first part of the "Tractor" ("Dzerzhinets") forever goes down in history. Goalkeepers: Boris Rebyansky, Mikhail Peshkov; defenders: Alexander Yashchenko, Viktor Vasiliev (captain, playing coach), Sergei Zakhvatov, Evgeny Rogov, Mikhail Petrov, Nikolai Yashchenkov; forwards: Vladimir Shtyrkov, Alexander Ponomarev, Petr Chernenko, Viktor Shuvalov, Nikolai Epstein, Zinovy ​​Pevzner.

January 25, 1948 "Tractor" ("Dzerzhinets") with a score of 18:2 beats the local "Lokomotiv" in Vologda. Petr Chernenko has five goals, Victor Shuvalov makes a hat-trick. This victory is still the largest in the history of the Chelyabinsk club. Almost four years later, on December 7, 1951, Chelyabinsk residents endure the most major defeat in its history from Air Force Moscow (2:20).

In March 1948, Traktor (Dzerzhinets) issued a ticket to the top division of domestic hockey. At the first stage, Viktor Vasiliev's team wins ten matches out of twelve in their zone, scores 100 goals, but only finishes 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 in the season is inferior to "Dynamo" from Sverdlovsk (2:3), and in the final match beats the Leningrad SKIF (3:2). Chelyabinsk players score 4 points, the same number for SKIF and Dynamo, but according to additional indicators, the first place goes to Dzerzhinets.

December 12, 1948 "Tractor" ("Dzerzhinets") will make its debut in the elite of the Soviet hockey match with the reigning champion of the CDKA. The game in Chelyabinsk is watched by 6,000 spectators. Georgiy Zhenishek opens the scoring in the tenth minute (this is the club's first goal in highest level). Leonid Stepanov increases the advantage of his team in the sixteenth. The hosts lead 2-0 after the first period. 2:1 - after the second. But in the third they missed twice more and lost (2:3).

December 18, 1948 "Tractor" ("Dzerzhinets") wins its first match at the highest level. In Chelyabinsk, Dynamo Riga was defeated (3:2). Because of the frost, the match takes place in an unusual format - in six periods of ten minutes. Victor Shuvalov's double and Leonid Stepanov's goal bring the victory to the hosts. 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 make a double, Leonid Stepanov writes down the duty goal at his own expense.

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 the Moscow CDKA, the MVO Air Force, Dynamo, Krylya Sovetov and Spartak, as well as the Riga Dynamo, are higher.

February 24, 1954 "Tractor" ("Vanguard") plays the first international match in its history. On home ice Vasily Karelin's team beats the GDR team (6:2). Victor Sokolov's double and goals from Rudolf Dokumentov, Boris Glushkov, Nikolai Linyaev and Boris Semenov bring victory to the hosts.

Since 1955, hockey players from the Chelyabinsk club have been invited to the USSR national team. Forward Rudolf Documentov becomes a pioneer, who, as part of the second national team of the country, participates in a tour of Germany and Holland. In March 1956, as part of the USSR student team, Nikolai Ulanov, Eduard Polyakov, Anatoly Olkov, Vladimir Karavdin, Rudolf Documentov, Viktor Sokolov, Valery Kiselev and coach Sergei Zakhvatov won the World student games in Warsaw. In November 1957, Anatoly Olkov became the first Chelyabinsk player in the main USSR national team. He takes 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) sets a new club achievement - for the first time in its history, it takes 4th place in the elite of domestic hockey, losing only to the Moscow teams of the 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 Chelyabinsk hockey players the titles of Masters of Sports of the USSR, and senior coach Sergei Zakhvatov - the title of Honored Coach of the USSR and a certificate for No. 4, the first three - from Anatoly Tarasov, Arkady Chernyshev and Vladimir Yegorov.

In January 1958 Traktor (Vanguard) went on its first foreign tour. The team travels to the GDR, where they play six matches a week in four cities (Weisswasser, Dresden, Berlin and Krimitschau) and achieve six victories. Avangard beats the national team of the GDR three times (5:4, 8:1, 7:4), the youth team of the GDR (12:1), as well as the combined teams of the local Dynamo and Weiswasser (3:1) and Wismuth "and" Einheta "(6: 0). In the future, such tours become regular. "Traktor" goes to Czechoslovakia, Finland, Romania, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Canada, USA, Italy, Yugoslavia.

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

February 7, 1962 "Tractor" in a fantastic match beats CSKA at home (5:4), returning to the game from 0:3. Victor Kungurtsev scores the winning goal in the 56th minute. 5500 spectators watch the match live. 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 least (75), misses the most (183). In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 Traktor plays in the second group.

On November 3, 1967, the Yunost Sports Palace opens in Chelyabinsk, which becomes Traktor's home for forty years. The palace was built according to the revised design of the sports palace in Minsk, construction work has been going on since September 1966. The 1967/1968 season "Tractor" plays out on the old open rink at ChTZ, and in the new one - having already returned to the big leagues - it moves to "Youth". On September 15, 1968, in the first match of the season and the first in the history of the new palace, Tractor hosts Dynamo Kiev and achieves victory (2: 1). Yuriy Potekhov from Kiev becomes the author of the first goal in Yunost. The author of Traktor's first goal was Vyacheslav Nesterov, who equalized the score in the 36th minute. Victory "Traktor" brings Nikolai Bets.

In the spring of 1968, Traktor wins the championship in the second group and returns to the elite. The team of Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov has a great time in decisive matches in March, where they successfully play with key rivals: Dieselist in Chelyabinsk (1:0 and 6:4) and Kristall in Elektrostal (2:2 and 5:2).

In the 1968/1969 season, Yuri Mogilnikov scored 44 goals and set a new club sniper record, which has not been beaten to this day. In the top three in history - Igor Varitsky (29 goals in the 1994/1995 season) and Nikolai Bets - (28 goals in the 1965/1966 season).

On October 10, 1971, 22-year-old striker Valery Belousov, who came from Sputnik Nizhny Tagil, plays his first match for Traktor. In Moscow, the team of Viktor Stolyarov loses to Dynamo (3:5) - this particular club will become, perhaps, the main rival in the future. coaching career Belousov. Six days later, on October 16, 1971, in the second match for himself in the new team, Belousov scored his first goal for Tractor. 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 scores his last goals for Tractor. In Riga in matches with the local "Dynamo" in the tournament for 5-8 places. In the first game "Tractor" concedes (3:5), and Belousov makes a double, in the second - "Tractor" takes revenge (5:4), and the forward writes down one goal to his account. May 7, 1982 in Chelyabinsk, as part of the same tournament, for 5-8 places, Belousov plays his own last match for Tractor. The game with SKA ends in a draw (1:1). In the USSR, Belousov plays only in Traktor. In his very first season in Chelyabinsk, Traktor became the best provincial team in the USSR championship, finishing fifth, right after four Moscow clubs CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and Krylya Sovetov. Twice more during this period, Traktor stops a 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 plays 443 matches, scores 240 goals and makes 202 assists and writes his name in the history of the club as the best scorer of all time. At present, the “Valery Belousov Sniper Club” is organized in Traktor. His top 5 includes:

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

September 6, 1973 "Tractor" for the first time in its history plays in the final of the USSR Cup. On the way to the final, the team of Albert Danilov beats the local Dynamo (7:2) in the 1/8 finals in Kiev, Dynamo Riga (4:2) in the quarterfinals, and sensationally knocks out Spartak in the semifinals in Moscow (9:4) due to the phenomenal game in the third period (6:1). In the final with CSKA in Moscow, Traktor leads 2:1 after two periods due to the goals of Nikolai Makarov and Valery Ponomarev, but concedes five goals in the third and loses (2:6).

In December 1973 - January 1974 "Tractor" for the first time participates in the Spengler Cup, the oldest club tournament in the world taking place 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 the first place on January 3, 1974 they were inferior to Slovan (2 :4). On January 5 and 6, Traktor again plays against Slovan (already 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 striker Valery Belousov played for the USSR national team in the first ever Canada Cup. Belousov's partners in the team led by Viktor Tikhonov are Vladislav Tretiak, Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov, Valery Vasiliev, Sergei Babinov, Vladimir Krikunov, Alexander Maltsev, Helmut Balderis, Boris Alexandrov. The first three matches of the USSR are played in Montreal. On September 3, the USSR loses to Czechoslovakia (3:5), on September 5, it also draws with Sweden (3:3), and on September 7, it beats Finland big (11:2). September 9 in Philadelphia beats the United States (5:0). And finally, on September 9, in the final match in Toronto, he lost to Canada with Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and Bobby Hull (1: 3) and did not qualify for the final. Belousov has five matches and one assist.

January 6, 1974 Sergei Babinov becomes the first Traktor player to win youth championship peace. The first ever tournament is considered unofficial and takes place in Leningrad. The first seven MFMs are won by the USSR. Acting Tractor players directly participate in six victories: Sergey Babinov (USA, 1975), Valery Evstifeev (Finland, 1976), Sergey Mylnikov, Sergey Starikov, Sergey Makarov and Valery Evstifeev (Czechoslovakia, 1977), Sergey Mylnikov, Sergey Starikov , Sergey Makarov, Sergey Paramonov (Canada, 1978), Andrey Sidorenko (Sweden, 1979). In the future, seven more current Tractor 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 the medals of the USSR championship (bronze). The team of Anatoly Kostryukov, ripe for big victories, wins 20 matches out of 36 and scores 45 points. Traktor is in the top 3 of the league in terms of defense reliability (106 missed goals in total), team leader Valery Belousov is in the top five scorers of the season with 49 (20+29) points. March 9, 1977 "Tractor" in the key match of the season beats at home its main competitor - Riga "Dinamo" (4:2). The victory for the Chelyabinsk team is brought by the goals of Anatoly Yegorkin, Gennady Tsygurov, Valery Belousov, who converted a bullet, and Anatoly Kartaev. In the three remaining matches of the season, Traktor needs to take one point, the task is solved in Gorky on March 16, 1977.

Sergei Makarov wins the 1978 World Championship with the USSR national team and becomes the first champion in Traktor history. The tournament takes place in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, the hosts are the champions of the last two years and are considered favorites. But in the decisive match, on May 14, 1978, the team of Viktor Tikhonov achieves victory with the desired score (3: 1) and wins gold. 19-year-old Makarov plays in all ten matches of the championship and scores 5 (3+2) points. After that, only nine current Traktor players become world champions: Sergey Starikov (USSR, 1979), Nikolai Makarov (Sweden, 1981), Sergey Mylnikov (USSR, 1986 and Sweden, 1989), Andrey 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 best sniper among defense players. Already at zero, his record will be broken by Oleg Piganovich, who scored 22 times in the 2007/2008 season. In the 2008/2009 season, Barys defender Kevin Dallman will set a new achievement - 28 goals.

The 1986/1987 season is the last in Traktor and Yuri Shumakov's playing career, which 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 USSR Cup in 1973 and a bronze medalist of the USSR Championship in 1977. Currently, the top 10 of the Yuri Shumakov Club (for hockey players who have played 500 or more matches for Tractor) includes:

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 - Alexei Zavarukhin - 541, 8 - Pavel Lazarev - 523, 9 - Nikolay Makarov - 516, 10 - Nikolay Bets - 514

Following the results 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 transitional matches to Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk (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 expands the Major League to 14 teams, additionally keeping Traktor in it and providing a place for Torpedo from Ust-Kamenogorsk. In the summer, Gennady Tsygurov (assisted by Valery Belousov and Valery Kiselev) becomes the new head coach of the Chelyabinsk club, and in the 1987/1988 season, Traktor takes seventh place.

In February 1988, Sergei Mylnikov became the first (and still the only) Olympic champion How current player"Tractor". Mylnikov wins the games in Calgary, Canada. The goalkeeper of Traktor plays the first number at the Olympics and makes a huge contribution to the overall victory. At the preliminary stage, the team of Viktor Tikhonov, in which, in addition to Mylnikov, the leading roles are played by Vladimir Krutov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergey Makarov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Valery Kamensky, and 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 for the round to the end. The defeat in the final match against Finland (1:2) does not mean anything anymore. Mylnikov has 8 matches in the tournament and conceded 13 goals in total.

Six years later, Traktor goes down in 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. Sergey Mylnikov - in the 7th round under the general number 127 "Quebec Nordiques", Sergey Gomolyako - in the 9th round under the general number 189 "Calgary Flames". Mylnikov becomes the first Soviet goaltender in the NHL, but his career in North America limited to ten matches. 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 the acting head coach of Traktor. This appointment changes the history of the club. Belousov's first match as a head coach was on 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 Sergei Gomolyako's pass. In 14 matches of Belousov's first season, Traktor scores ten victories, finishes third in the transition, behind Ust-Kamenogorsk and Kazan, and retains a place in the elite.

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

In the spring of 1993, Traktor won the national championship medals for the second time in its history - bronze again. At the first stage of the 1992/1993 season, Valery Belousov's team, filled with juices, won the fourth zone by a wide margin, at the second stage it finished second in the Eastern Conference, losing 4 points to Gennady Tsygurov's Lada. In the first round of the playoffs, Traktor passes Sokol Kiev (2-1), in the second round they win the derby against Magnitogorsk (2-0), and then in the dramatic semi-finals they lose to Dynamo Moscow (1-2) .

Traktor forwards Igor Varitsky and Igor Fedulov are in the top 5 scorers of the season with 44 (27+17) and 43 (18+25) points respectively. Andrey Zuev becomes the best goalkeeper season. Valery Karpov - the best hockey player.

In May 1993, five Traktor players at once, Andrei Zuev, Andrei Sapozhnikov, Valery Karpov, Konstantin Astrakhantsev, Igor Varitsky, won the World Championship in Germany. At 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 is changing. In the quarterfinals, Russia beats Germany (5:1), in the semifinals - Canada (7:4), and in the finals beats Sweden (3:1). This gold becomes the last for Russia until 2008.

In the spring of 1994, Traktor repeats 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, held separately from the championship of the MHL Cup "Tractor", "Torpedo" from Nizhny Novgorod (2-0) passes, in the second - "Torpedo" from Yaroslavl (2-0), and in the semi-finals again concedes to Moscow "Dynamo" (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 a long seven years. The team takes 18th place out of 22 possible in the first stage, and then fails in the transitional tournament.

In the 2005/2006 season, Traktor won the Major League and returned to the elite division. The team of Gennady Tsygurov is confidently going through the championship and the playoffs, in the semi-final series they will beat the Penza Dieselist and officially return to the Super League. The bonus is the victory in the final over Krylya Sovetov (3-2) and winning the Major League Cup.

On January 10, 2009, forward Andrey Nikolishin becomes the first representative of Traktor in the All-Star Game. The first KHL All-Star Game takes place in Moscow at the rink built on Red Square with a capacity of 4,000 spectators. Nikolishin plays for the team of Alexei Yashin, which brings together the best Russian players leagues. The winner of the match is the team of Jaromir Jagr, where the best legionnaires are gathered (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 Schechura

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

The 2011/2012 season gives the fans a new strong Traktor. The team of Valery Belousov (who returned to Chelyabinsk fifteen years later in the 2010/2011 season) scores 114 points, wins the Eastern Conference and the Continental Cup - both best team regular season, and then goes for medals. In the first round of the Gagarin Cup "Tractor" passes "Ugra" (4-1), in the second - "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 the team of Sergey Makarov plays a draw with the team of Vyacheslav Fetisov (4:4) in the presence of 6,000 spectators; and then the West beats the East in a master show. The next day, the team of Alexei Morozov beats the team of Ilya Kovalchuk (18:11), the winners have poker done by Evgeny Kuznetsov, a double - Deron Quint. One of the East's goalkeepers is Michael Garnett. One of the coaches is Valery Belousov. The game collects a full house.

In the 2012/2013 season, Valery Belousov leads Traktor to the Gagarin Cup final. This is the highest achievement in the history of the club. The team will finish third in the Eastern Conference. Barys (4-3) passes in the first round of the playoffs, Avangard (4-1) in the second, and Ak Bars (4 -3). The final against Dynamo Moscow becomes an epic. April 7 and 8 Traktor loses starting matches in Moscow (1:2 and 2:3). April 11 in Chelyabinsk closes the gap in the series (3:1), but the next day at home loses (0:1). On April 15, in Moscow, black and white again close the gap (4:3). The fate of the Cup is decided in the sixth match of the series, April 17 in Chelyabinsk. Overtime victory (3:2) brings Oleg Znarok's Dynamo trophy. KHL names Valery Nichushkin the best newcomer season.

On February 16, 2016, the American defender of Traktor Deron Quint takes part in the match with Magnitogorsk (1: 0) and becomes the oldest hockey player in the history of the Chelyabinsk club who played in an official match. Quint is 39 years 11 months and 4 days old at the time of the match. According to this indicator, Quint is ahead of former 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 is the last for the American in Traktor and the KHL. In the background of the defender - 5 seasons for black and white, 311 matches (the best figure among foreign players), 143 (57 + 86) points, bronze and the Continental Cup 2012, the final of the Gagarin Cup 2013.

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

In the course of the 2017/2018 season, 26-year-old striker Alexei Kruchinin becomes the 50th captain in the history of Traktor. In the absence of the injured main black-and-white captain Alexander Shinin, Kruchinin enters with 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 away) and "Cupid" (October 6, 3:2). Kruchinin finds himself in a very serious company: the first captain of the Chelyabinsk club was Viktor Vasiliev, in addition, in different years and periods of history, the captains of Traktor were Sergei Zakhvatov, Gennady Tsygurov, Anatoly Kartaev, Nikolai Bets, 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, black and white win their 1000th victory in the history of the top division of the National Championships. "Traktor" with a minimum advantage of 2:1 beat the opponent, the winning goal was scored by Alexei 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 is starting to operate at the Valery Belousov Arena, a capsule with messages for the club's 100th anniversary in 2047 has been laid.

On March 7, 2018, having beaten Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk with a score of 3:2, Traktor completed the longest 10-match winning streak in recent history. The series began with Traktor's 3-0 win 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, Sibir Novosibirsk 4:1, and won three times in the first round of the playoffs against Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 4:3OT, 4:1, 3:2.

March 27 in Ufa "Tractor" won 4 wins in a seven-match series with "Salavat Yulaev" 2:1, the winning goal on account of Venus Videll, securing the bronze medals of the KHL Championship. In the conference final, Traktor lost 0:4 in a series with Ak Bars Kazan, the future KHL champion and winner of the Gagarin Cup of the 2017/2018 season.

Vitaly Kravtsov installed new record KHL performance for 18-year-olds in the playoffs - 11 points (6 + 5), surpassing the achievements of Evgeny Kuznetsov in 2012 - 9 (7 + 2) and Valery Nichushkin in 2013 - 9 (6 + 3). In history Russian hockey Vitaly Kravtsov is third among players under 20 after Maxim Afinogenov 19 years old 1999 -16 (10+6), Evgeny Malkin 19 years old 2006 - 15 (5+10).

Hockey club "Tractor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he performed under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (1948-1953), "Vanguard" (1954-1958). The club has been called 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 the teams of the second group. In the first season, the team won the right to play in the first group. December 12, 1948 - the day of the debut of the Chelyabinsk "Dzerzhinets" in the major leagues. The first rival of the team was the champion of the country CDKA. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the first Chelyabinsk goal in the Premier League. top scorer in the first season - Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team in the same trio with Vsevolod Bobrov and Evgeny Babich.

Sergei Zakhvatov in the 50s became the first Chelyabinsk citizen 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. The coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov returned the team to the first group.

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

Three hockey players of the Chelyabinsk "Tractor" at the turn of the 70-80s. became world champions, directly involved in the USSR national team from Traktor: forward Sergey Makarov (World Cup-78), defenders Sergey Starikov (World Cup-79) and Nikolai Makarov (World Cup-81). Sergei Starikov and Sergei Makarov won more than a dozen gold medals each as part 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.

Next golden age in the history of the club began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in the history of Traktor 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 at once: 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 a long fourteen 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 the 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 a long seven years. In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons, Traktor twice unsuccessfully tried to complete the task of returning to the Super League. And only in the 2005/2006 season the problem was solved. The team of Gennady Tsygurov confidently played the whole season, and in the semi-final series they beat the Penza Dieselist, and officially returned to the Super League.

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

Black, white 1947 - 1953 - "Dzerzhinets"
1953 - 1958 - "Vanguard"
1958 - ... - "Tractor"

Story

As you might guess, "Tractor" got its name, as it was founded on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1947. True, the first names of the team were "Dzerzhinets" and "Vanguard". The club began to be called "Tractor" from the 1958/59 season.

In the first season, the Chelyabinsk club won the right to play in the first group of "A" class teams. For the first time, Traktor managed to get closer to the leaders in the 1954/55 season, when the club took fourth place. In 1972, Chelyabinsk residents managed to become the finalists of the Spengler Cup. A year later, Traktor reached the final of the USSR Cup. In the decisive match, the Chelyabinsk team played with CSKA and even led during the meeting with a score of 2:0, but in the end lost with a score of 5:2. Medals of the USSR Championship ended up with Traktor in the 1976/77 season, when the team won bronze medals. Traktor hockey players often fell under the banner of the national team with which they won world championships and the Olympic Games.

After the formation of the MHL, Traktor managed to become a bronze medalist twice in the 1992/93 and 1993/94 seasons. In the 1999 season, "Tractor" flew to the Major League, and managed to return to the elite only in the 2005/06 season.

The regular season of the first draw of the KHL in the 2008/09 season began for Traktor really well. Chelyabinsk team for a long time was in the top ten, but she didn’t do so well at the end of the championship and took twelfth place in the regular championship. In the first round of the playoffs "Tractor" went to Mytishchi "Atlant". The Moscow region team turned out to be head and shoulders stronger than the Chelyabinsk team, having won in three matches with a total score of 13:2.

The next season turned out to be difficult, primarily due to financial difficulties in the team. Traktor's budget was cut by thirty percent, causing the club to leave a number of its leaders, including best player last season Oleg Kvasha. Despite the fact that “Tractor” scored only sixty-four points, the club still managed to get into the playoffs. In the first round, the Chelyabinsk met with the Magnitogorsk “Metallurg”, which they lost with a score of 3:1. And already in the 2010/11 season, Traktor did not manage to get into the playoffs at all with the same sixty-four points.

In the 2011/12 season, Traktor was, perhaps, the main discovery. In the summer, the Chelyabinsk club had a fruitful transfer campaign, managing to sign such star players as Bulis, Chistov, Garnett and Kontiola. Starting the regular championship neither shaky nor rolls, “Tractor” with each subsequent match showed more and more confident hockey. For many fans, the conquest of the Continental Cup by the Chelyabinsk team was a real shock. “Tractor” scored one hundred and fourteen points, ahead of the St. Petersburg SKA just one credit point. In the first round of the playoffs, the rival of the Chelyabinsk team was the Khanty-Mansiysk "Ugra", which managed to win only one match out of five. Moreover, the third match of the series will be remembered by many, when “Tractor” managed to win 7:6, losing during the match 2:6. Then "Tractor" met with the Kazan "Ak Bars", but the two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup fell under the onslaught of Chelyabinsk. An exhausting series with the Kazan team played its part in the Eastern Conference finals, where Traktor lost to Avangard Omsk in five games. At the end of the season, Traktor won bronze medals for the first time since 1994.

In the 2012/13 season, the Chelyabinsk club managed to retain Evgeny Kuznetsov, whom many have already been wooing in the NHL. The Tractor finished the regular season in third place in the Eastern Conference. In the playoffs, Traktor won the Eastern Conference Cup and reached the Gagarin Cup final for the first time. On the way to the first final in the history of the Chelyabinsk club, the following were beaten: Barys Astana (score in the series 4-3), Omsk Avangard (score in the series 4-1) and Kazan Ak Bars (score in the series 4-3 ). In the final of the Gagarin Cup, the “tractor drivers” played against the Moscow “Dynamo”, which they lost in a stubborn series with a score of 2-4, thereby winning silver medals for the first time in their history and an honorable second place in the championship of the Continental Hockey League. This result was the best in the history of the Chelyabinsk team.

But Traktor failed to hold on to the leading positions. In the summer, the team was seriously updated, and not for the better. As a result – “Tractor” failed to break into the playoffs, finishing in nineteenth place in the overall standings of the regular season.

Awards and achievements

KHL Continental Cup Winner: 2011/12
Silver medalist of the KHL: 2012/13
Bronze medalist of the KHL: 2011/12
Bronze medalist of the USSR championship: 1976/77
Bronze medalist of the MHL championship: 1992/1993, 1993/1994

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Encyclopedia

Hockey club "Tractor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he played under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (from 1948 to 1953), "Vanguard" (from 1954 to 1958). The club has been called 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 the teams of the second group. In the first match in the history of the club, the rival of Dzerzhinets was the 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 very first season, Dzerzhinets won the right to play in the first group.

December 12, 1948 - the day of the debut of "Dzerzhinets" in the major leagues. The first rival of the team was the champion of the country CDKA. Chelyabinsk even led 2:0, but in the end they still lost 2:3. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the club's first goal in the Premier League. The best 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, finishing fourth. The following year, the team was fifth and for the first time in its history completed the championship with a positive difference between abandoned and conceded goals. In addition, in the spring of 1956, Avangard became the champion of the third Winter Spartakiad of Trade Unions.

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

In November 1957, Avangard head coach Sergei Zakhvatov was the first Chelyabinsk citizen 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 Yegorov 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 faced Lokomotiv Moscow in the quarterfinals. The first match ended in favor of the Chelyabinsk team - 3:2, but in the series up to two victories, the railwaymen took the upper hand.

In the 1961/1962 season, Traktor defeated the famous CSKA for the first time. It happened on February 7, 1962 in Chelyabinsk. After the first period, the hosts lost 0:3, but in the second and third periods they tipped the scales in their favor - 5:4. However, in general, the team has already entered a period of crisis. And following the results 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. The coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov returned the team to the first group.

The seventies became the Bronze Age 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 of the city of Yanov (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 for the first time made it to the final of the USSR Cup. On the way to the decisive match, Chelyabinsk knocked out Dynamo Kiev (7:2), Dynamo Riga (4:2) and Spartak Moscow (9:4) from the draw.

On September 6, 1973, in the overcrowded Luzhniki, which accommodated 12,000 spectators, Albert Danilov's team played with CSKA. In the battle with the eminent rival, Traktor was leading 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 managed to win the USSR Cup, which was held from 1951 to 1988, and in addition to Traktor, only Gorky's Torpedo (1961), Leningrad SKA (1968) and Voskresensky 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 Europe, since 1923, held in Davos, Switzerland on New Year's Eve. In a one-round tournament, the Chelyabinsk team consistently 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 a new head coach, the team finished seventh. And in the 1976/1977 season, for the first time in the history of the club, Kostryukov led Traktor to the bronze medals of the national championship.

Together with the head coach and his assistant Viktor Sokolov, the team was led to this achievement by goalkeepers Leonid Gerasimov and Sergey Mylnikov, defenders Boris Belov, Nikolai Makarov, Valery Ponomarev, Sergey Starikov, Sergey Tyzhnykh, Gennady Tsygurov and Vladimir Shabunin, forwards Valery Belousov (team captain) , Nikolai Bets, Vladimir Borodulin, Yuri Valetsky, Anatoly Egorkin, Valery Evstifeev, Anatoly Kartaev, Anatoly Makhinko, Sergei Makarov, Boris Molchanov, Mikhail Prirodin, Nikolai Shorin and Yuri Shumakov.

In the next season, which became the last for Anatoly Kostryukov in Chelyabinsk, Traktor again almost reached the bronze of the national championship. As a result, the team lost the fight for third place to the Wings of the Soviets and finished the tournament in fourth place.

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

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

The next bronze age in the history of the club began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in the history of Traktor, Valery Belousov, the team won bronze medals 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 claimed the championship. Those epic battles Chelyabinsk still remembers.

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 on shootouts to the local Metallurg (5:6).

In December 1993, Traktor again took part in the Spengler Cup. IN starting 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 group stage could not cope with the future winner of the tournament Swedish "Färjestad Karlstad BK" (3:6). As a result, the Chelyabinsk team did not qualify for the final, taking only third place.

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

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 the fourth.

Since the 1995 season, Traktor began to slowly enter a period of crisis. Reaching the final of the pre-season Memorial Romazan 1997, where Chelyabinsk again lost the derby to Magnitka (4:5), was the last significant achievement of the club for years to come. And in the 1998/1999 season, the team left the super league. As it turned out later - for a long seven years.

In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons, Traktor twice unsuccessfully tried to complete the task of returning to the Super League. And only on the third attempt, in the 2005/2006 season, the goal was achieved. The team of Gennady Tsygurov confidently played the whole season, and in the semi-final series for a ticket to the elite beat Penza "Dizelist".

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

The very next year, the club's management made a bet on the young Andrey Nazarov, who became the twentieth head coach in the history of Traktor. With Nazarov, the team in the very first season of his work from 14th place in the regular season reached the playoffs - for the first time in ten years. Alas, in the first round Chelyabinsk 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 again lost 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, accommodating 7,500 spectators, was opened. In the debut meeting in the new palace, the "black and white" played with their principal rival - Metallurg Magnitogorsk and won with a score of 3:2.

The 2009/2010 season was very difficult for Traktor. The recognized leaders left the team, the team last round I had to fight for a ticket to the playoffs, but Andrei Nazarov's wards successfully completed this task. In the second draw of the Gagarin Cup, the audience witnessed the South Ural derby - Traktor faced Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Having lost in two away matches, in the third, on home ice, the Chelyabinsk team pulled out a victory in overtime with a score of 2: 1, but the next day Magnitogorsk won in overtime, which went further.

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

On October 8, 2010, an event took place that can truly be considered historic. Valery Belousov was appointed head coach of Traktor. Breakup of one of the best Russian coaches with the native club lasted more than 15 years. In his first season, the eminent mentor failed to bring the team to the playoffs. Traktor finished the championship in ninth place in its conference.

However, the 2011/2012 season more than redeemed everything, 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 semifinals, he was stopped by Avangard Omsk and became the owner of bronze medals, repeating his highest achievements in 1977, 1993 and 1994.

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

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

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's 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 club history
1 - Vasiliev Viktor Nikolevich (1948 - 1952)
2 - Karelin Vasily Ivanovich (1952 - 1954)
3 - Sergey Ivanovich Zakhvatov (1954 - 1962)
4 - Sidorenko Nikolai 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 - Kostryukov Anatoly Mikhailovich (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 - Kartaev Anatoly Zinovievich (1995/1996)
14 - Grigorkin Sergey Mikhailovich (1995 - 1999)
15 - Anatoly Timofeev (2000/01, 2003 - January 2005)
16 - Paramonov Sergey Viktorovich (2001)
17 - Glazkov Alexander Stepanovich (2001/2002)
18 - Makarov Nikolai Mikhailovich (2003/2004)
19 - Bogdanov Anatoly Vasilyevich (January - July 2005)
20 - Nazarov Andrey Viktorovich (April 5, 2007 - April 8, 2010)
21 - Sidorenko Andrey Mikhailovich (April 23, 2010 - October 8, 2010)

Photo - Traktor's official website

Chelyabinsk hockey club"Tractor"- one of the leading Russian teams in ice hockey. The club traces its history back to 1947, when it was founded at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. The Traktor team is the finalist of the USSR Cup in 1973, the owner of the Continental Cup and the bronze medalist of the Gagarin Cup in 2012.

Club history

Hockey club "Tractor" Chelyabinsk was founded in 1947 at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In the national championships he performed under the names: "Dzerzhinets" (from 1948 to 1953),

"Vanguard" (from 1954 to 1958). The club has been called 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 the teams of the second group. In the first season, the team won the right to play in the first group. December 12, 1948 - the day of the debut of the Chelyabinsk "Dzerzhinets" in the major leagues. The first rival of the team was the champion of the country CDKA. Georgy Zhenishek became the author of the first Chelyabinsk goal in the Premier League. The best scorer in the first season was Viktor Shuvalov, who later played in the USSR national team.

Sergei Zakhvatov in the 50s became the first Chelyabinsk citizen 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 fourth place in the elite league for the first time. In the 1961/1962 season, HC Traktor defeated the famous CSKA for the first time. In the seasons 1965/1966 - 1967/1968 Traktor played in the second group. The coaches Viktor Stolyarov and Viktor Sokolov returned the team to the first group.

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

Three hockey players of HC Traktor at the turn of the 70-80s became world champions, directly involved in the USSR national team from Traktor: forward Sergey Makarov (World Cup-78), defenders Sergey Starikov (World Cup-79) and Nikolai Makarov (World Cup -81). Sergei Starikov and Sergei Makarov won more than a dozen gold medals each as part of the USSR national team at the World Championships, Europe and the Olympic Games. Traktor goalkeeper Sergei Mylnikov was called the best goalkeeper in the country, and in 1988 he became an Olympic champion in Calgary, and in 1986, 1989 and 1990 - three times world champion.

The next golden era in the history of the club began in the early nineties. Under the leadership of one of the best strikers in the history of Traktor Valery Belousov, the team won the bronze medal of the national championship twice in a row - in 1993 and 1994. In addition, in 1993, five Traktor hockey players became world champions at once: 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 a long fourteen years and that the next time the Russian team would become world champion only in 2008. Vyacheslav Bykov, a trainee of Traktor Chelyabinsk, led the Russian national team to this title at the 2008 World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup, Bykov's team managed to win the world "gold" for the second time in a row.

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 the 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 a long seven years. In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons, Traktor twice unsuccessfully tried to complete the task of returning to the Super League. And only in the 2005/2006 season the problem was solved. The team of Gennady Tsygurov confidently played the whole season, and in the semi-final series they beat the Penza Dieselist, and officially returned to the Super League.

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

The very next year, the club's management made a bet on the young Andrey Nazarov, who became the twentieth head coach in the history of Traktor. With Nazarov, the team in the very first season of his work from 14th place in the regular season reached the playoffs - for the first time in ten years. In 2008 Traktor became full member championship of the Continental Hockey League and again made it to the playoffs, this time from a higher 12th place.

In the 2008/2009 season, another important event for Chelyabinsk hockey took place. On January 17, 2009, the Traktor Arena, which can accommodate 7,500 spectators, was opened. In the debut meeting in the new palace, the "black and white" played with their principal rival - Metallurg Magnitogorsk and won with a score of 3:2. As a result, the Chelyabinsk team took 12th place in the championship and lost to Atlanta near Moscow in the first ever Gagarin Cup in the 1/8 finals.

The 2009/2010 season was not easy. The recognized leaders left the team and Tractor had to fight to the last for a ticket to the playoffs, but Andrey Nazarov's wards successfully completed this task. In the second draw of the Gagarin Cup, our team was opposed by the same Magnitogorsk team. Having lost in two away matches, in the third Chelyabinsk team pulled out a victory in overtime with a score of 2:1, but the next day the Metallurg players were more successful, who went further to the playoffs.

The off-season seemed to be a turning point for Traktor. In April, Andrey Nazarov was replaced as head coach of the club by Andrey Sidorenko, but he did not work with the team for even six months. On October 8, 2010, an event took place that can truly be considered historical. Valery Belousov was appointed head coach of Traktor. The parting of one of the best Russian coaches with his native club lasted more than 15 years. In his first season, the eminent mentor failed to bring the team to the playoffs. Traktor finished the championship in ninth place and the 2011/2012 season started with almost a different team...

In the offseason, the club has grown significantly, and the fans had the right to expect serious results from the team. From the very beginning of the championship, the Chelyabinsk HC Traktor established itself at the top of the overall League table, led for a long time and eventually finished the 2011/2012 KHL Regular Championship in first place, scoring 39 wins in 54 matches and winning the Continental Cup. Valery Belousov also received his well-deserved award. By decision of the executive committee of the Russian Hockey Federation, the Traktor mentor was inducted into the Russian Hockey Hall of Fame.

In the first round of the Gagarin Cup-2012, the "black and white" did not experience any problems in the series with the Khanty-Mansiysk "Ugra", winning it in five meetings. The third match of the series, which our team played away, will forever remain in the minds of all fans and specialists. Before the final period, Traktor was losing 2:6, but in the end pulled out a victory in regular time with a score of 7:6. The next rival of the "black and white" was the Kazan "Ak Bars". It was one of the most charismatic playoff streaks, full of injuries, a 50-minute overtime in Game 5, and Traktor's 4-2 overall win. Next is the final of the conference. Guaranteed bronze medals. "Vanguard". Having won in the first meeting, the team of Valery Belousov lost in the next four and stopped a step away from the final. A step that Traktor will take in the 2012/2013 season. The step that will be taken by the team that won the national championship medals for the first time in 18 years.

Club achievements

• 1972 - Spengler Cup Final
• 1973 - USSR Cup Final
• 1977 - Bronze medals of the USSR Championship
• 1993 - Bronze medals of the International Hockey League
• 1994 - Bronze medals of the International Hockey League
• 2012 - Continental Cup
• 2012 - Bronze medals of the Gagarin Cup

Yurevich Mikhail Valerievich Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region

Mosharov Stanislav Ivanovich

Head of Chelyabinsk (Chairman of the City Duma)

Serebrennikov Yury Nikolaevich

Minister for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Chelyabinsk Region

Krechin Vladimir Nikolaevich Director of the hockey club "Tractor"

Club management

Krechin Vladimir Nikolaevich

Club director

Vinnitsky Mark Moiseevich

Deputy Director

Tsybuk Evgeny Konstantinovich Manager