Passed difficult examination: as passed the first hockey matches of USSR national team in 1948

In anticipation of an anniversary newspaper "Peterburgsky dnevnik" remembers the most important events in the history of domestic hockey. Today we will tell about the very first international matches of USSR national team the rival in which in 1948 there was a basic team of combined Czechoslovakia – "LTTs" from Prague with washers in the USSR started developing Hockey as the sport entering the Olympic program, planning an exit to the world scene. To study the international experience, delegation into which trainers and sports organizers entered, went in February, 1948 on Winter Olympic Games in the Swiss Saint-Moritz. In the hockey...