VVS Moscow (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: Moscow Military Air Force) was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football, ice hockey, basketball, and volleyball. They won the Soviet national basketball league championship in 1952,[1] as well as the Soviet national volleyball league championship in 1952,[2] and the Soviet national ice hockey league championship three times, in the years 1951, 1952, and 1953[3] following the 1950 Sverdlovsk Air Disaster.
Lieutenant General Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin, was the president of the club. Vsevolod Bobrov played on the football team 1950–52 and the ice hockey team 1949–53. Viktor Tikhonov, the future Soviet national team's coach, played on the ice hockey team, as did Boris Kulagin, future coach of other Moscow-based ice hockey teams. Yevgeny Babich, otherwise a CDKA/CSKA player, played with the VVS hockey team for its three championship seasons.
VVSMoscow (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: Moscow Military Air Force) was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force...
Tartu Ülikool 1949–50: Dinamo Tbilisi 1950–51: Žalgiris Kaunas 1951–52: VVSMoscow 1952–53: Dinamo Tbilisi 1953–54: Dinamo Tbilisi 1954–55: Rīgas ASK 1955–56:...
(Russian: Военно-воздушные силы России, tr. Voenno-vozdushnye sily Rossii, VVS) is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on...
sports. Originally a football player, he played for CDKA Moscow, VVSMoscow, and Spartak Moscow, and represented the Soviet Union internationally at the...
for CDKA Moscow (later CSKA Moscow). On 5 January 1950 a plane carrying the VVS team crashed at Sverdlovsk, killing the team. Even so, VVS won three...
Sotsialisticheskih Respublik, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as...
in Moscow including FC Spartak Moscow, PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, and Torpedo Moscow. The table below lists all Moscow's clubs...
founded in Moscow in 1995 as Luzhniki Moscow. They were subsequently known as CSK VVSMoscow (1996–1998), Viking Moscow (1998–2000), and SKIF Moscow (2000–2006)...
all 19 persons on board, including almost the entire ice hockey team (VVSMoscow) of the Soviet Air Forces – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a...
Dynamo Kyiv, FC Spartak Moscow, and FC Dynamo Moscow. The most popular clubs besides the above-mentioned were PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Ararat Yerevan, and...
established on 1 August 2015 with the merging of the Russian Air Force (VVS) and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces (VVKO), as recommended by the Ministry...
the Continental Cup (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). CSKA Moscow has won the most national titles, with 37, and Soviet Cups, with 12. Key...
Dinamo, he joined VVSMoscow, the Soviet Air Force's ice hockey team along with teammate Roberts Šūlmanis. He also played football in Moscow at the highest...
VC CSKA Moscow (Russian: ВК ЦСКА Москва) was a Russian volleyball club. They played in the Russian Super League, winning the competition three times. The...
plane crash. There really was a plane crash in which 11 players on the VVSMoscow ice hockey team died, and star player Vsevolod Bobrov really did survive...
second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire VVSMoscow team was killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg)...
Soviet national team game. Played several seasons in the Soviet League for VVSMoscow, which lost 11 players in the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash. 27 Roberts...
1945-1991: Organisation and order of battle. Feskov et al. 2004., 75. "VVSMoscow Military District". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-09-18. http://www.airforce...
withdrawal of several teams prior to this season. The fourth team was Lokomotiv Moscow. Last season. Russian SFSR clubs form new Russian Top Division with compatriot...
Gulevsky (Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev) 16 goals Viktor Shuvalov (VVSMoscow) Vasili Trofimov (Dynamo Moscow) Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)...
crashed on its landing approach to the Turin airport. 5 January 1950 VVSMoscow Ice hockey Soviet Air Force Lisunov Li-2 Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union 19 13...
capture of Moscow within four months. On 22 June 1941, Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union, destroyed most of the Soviet Air Force (VVS) on the ground...
second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team. In 1950, the entire VVSMoscow team died in a plane crash near Sverdlovsk (now known as Yekaterinburg)...
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