Russian national ice hockey team
The coat of arms of Russia is the badge used on the players jerseys.
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| Nickname(s) | Красная Машина (The Red Machine) |
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| Association | Russian Hockey Federation |
| Head coach | Oleg Znarok |
| Assistants | Rashit Davydov Igor Nikitin Harijs Vītoliņš Ilya Vorobyov |
| Captain | Sergei Mozyakin |
| Most games | Maxim Sushinski (119) |
| Most points | Alexei Morozov (89) |
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| 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)  Italy 1–10 Russia (Cologne, Germany; 7 May 2017) |
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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 | 26 (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 2016, they are rated second in the IIHF World Ranking. 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. Russia has a total of 84,270 players, about 0.05% of its population. Their head coach is Oleg Znarok, who has been coach since 2014.
The Allrussian Hockey League was founded by some clubs in the Russian Empire and entered the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1911. However, probably due to misunderstanding ("hockey" was identified with Russian hockey, not with the Canadian hockey) the Russian team was excluded from the organisation. There were no matches between Imperial Russia.
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