Russia men's national ice hockey team
| Nickname(s) | Красная Машина (The Red Machine) |
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| Association | Russian Hockey Federation |
| General Manager | Andrei Safronov |
| Head coach | Oleg Znarok |
| Assistants | Rashit Davydov Igor Nikitin Harijs Vītoliņš Ilya Vorobyov |
| Captain | Alexander Ovechkin |
| Most games | Maxim Sushinski (119) |
| Most points | Alexei Morozov (89) |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | RUS |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 2 
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| Highest IIHF | 1 (first in 2009) |
| Lowest IIHF | 7 (2004) |
| First international | |
 Russia 2–2 Sweden  (Saint Petersburg, Russia; 12 April 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Russia 12–3 Great Britain  (Bolzano, Italy; 26 April 1994) Russia 10–1 Kazakhstan  (Riga, Latvia; 6 May 2006) Russia 10–1 Denmark  (Moscow, Russia; 12 May 2016) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Finland 7–1 Russia (Helsinki, Finland; 22 April 1997) Russia 1–7 Czech Republic  (Moscow, Russia; 20 December 1997) |
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| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 25 (first in 1992) |
| Best result |
 (1993, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014) |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1994) |
| Medals |
 (1998) (2002) |
The Russian men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Russia, overseen by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. As of May 2015, they are rated second in the IIHF World Rankings; with 3675 points. The team has been competing internationally since 1993, and is recognized by the IIHF as the successor to the Soviet Union Hockey Federation and have passed its ranking on to Russia. Today, it still follows a long tradition of Soviet hockey teams, composed mostly of Russian players. The Russian team replaced the Unified Team of the ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the Commonwealth of Independent States team of the 1992 World Championships and is a member of the so-called "Big Six", the unofficial group of the six strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and the United States.
The Soviets were the most dominant teams of all time in international play. The team won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament between 1954 and 1991 held by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Russia won the 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 World Ice Hockey Championships. Russia has a total of 84,270 players, about 0.05% of its population. As of May 2014, their head coach is Oleg Znarok.
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