Dec 20, 2025
1970s-era Soviet national-team defencemen Valery Vasilyev (l.) and Alexander Gusev. (Image Source: Stadion FB group)
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1970s-era Soviet national-team defencemen Valery Vasilyev (l.) and Alexander Gusev. (Image Source: Stadion FB group)
Trailer for Защита Валерия Васильева (Zashchita Valeriya Vasilyeva -- The Defending of Valery Vasilyev) a 2020 documentary about Dynamo Moscow and Soviet National Team defenceman Valery Vasilyev. The full documentary can be purchased here or here.
Scenes from the KHL's Far-East Derby (December 20, 2023 edition), with both visitors Amur Khabarovsk and home team Admiral Vladivostok wearing special uniforms for the occasion!
Top: Amur's Vyacheslav Gretsky asks some questions of Admiral d-man Leonid Metalnikov and goalie Vasily Demchenko. They have answers.
Middle Left: Admiral take the lead in the 3rd! Semyon Pankratov (#99) tips the puck past Amur goalie Igor Bobkov...
Middle Right: ...But with less than two minutes to go, Amur tie it up. Yegor Korshkov (not in photo) takes advantage of Vladislav Barulin's screen to beat Demchenko and level the scores.
Bottom: And Korshkov's in this photo, as he celebrates his second goal of the game, in OT, to give Amur the honours out in GMT+10 this time around.
(Image Sources: hcamur.ru and hcadmiral.ru)
Slava Fetisov defending against Mark Messier at Rendez-vous '87 in Quebec City. Yevgeny Belosheikin is the Soviet goalie. (Image Source)
Some action around the goalmouth of CDSA Moscow (now CSKA), wearing the dark sweaters, during a 1952 game against Spartak. I'm not sure of very many player identifications in this one, but that's Grigory Mkrtychan in goal for CDSA, and it sure looks like Anatoly Tarasov guarding the slot behind the three skaters in the foreground.
Note the early protective equipment: the elbow pads worn outside the sweaters of all three CKSA skaters, the cycling helmet worn by the Spartak attacker in the foreground, and what seems to be water-polo headgear on the CDSA defenceman just behind him.
The site of the game is almost certainly the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow (now the Luzhniki).
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Salavat Yulaev’s Grigory Panin getting out for a skate with the pupper on Lake Baikal recently!
Pre-game pep-talking between Salavat Yulaev goalie Juha Metsola and his enormous defenceman Alexei Semenov! (Image Source)
Nice video of the Belovs (SKA St. Petersburg defenceman Anton and this wife Yelena) out delivering food to some elderly former SKA players during the current quarantine.