Russian Government Cup

Russian Government Cup was a tournament for national teams in bandy, arranged in Russia every other year from 1972^[1] until 2012. The cup has not been played since 2012.

When the Bandy World Championships were held every other year, this tournament was held in around the same time of the year (February/March) in the years when there was no World Championships and was affectionately called "the small world championship". Starting in 2003, it was arranged in December instead.

History[]

Besides the national teams, there have sometimes been irregular teams representing federation subjects of Russia (earlier the USSR) or a "Russia no. 2" team – these are written with italics below and marked with two flags if they are federation subjects – or Russian club teams, to fill out the tournament. Youth national teams have also occationally been invited.

It was called the Rossiya Tournament until 1990, because it was arranged by the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya. Since then, it was instead being arranged by the Russian government, hence the latter name.

Tournaments[]

Year	Venue(s)		Winner		Second place		Third place		Fourth place
1972 Details	Ulyanovsk		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Norway
1974 Details	Arkhangelsk		Sweden		Soviet Union		Finland		Norway
1976 Details	Khabarovsk		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Norway
1978 Details	Kemerovo		Soviet Union		Finland		Sweden		Norway
1980 Details	Syktyvkar		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Komi ASSR
1982 Details	Syktyvkar		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Norway
1984 Details	Kemerovo		Soviet Union		Sweden		Norway		Finland
1986 Details	Irkutsk		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Russian SFSR
1988 Details	Abakan		Soviet Union		Sweden		Finland		Norway
1990 Details	Novosibirsk		Sweden		Finland		Soviet Union		Norway
1992 Details	Krasnoyarsk		Russia		Sweden		Commonwealth of Independent States		Finland
1994	Krasnoyarsk and Moscow		Sweden		Norway		Russia		Finland
1996	Arkhangelsk		Sweden		Russia		Russia-2		Finland
1998	Nizhny Novgorod		Russia		Sweden		Finland		Norway
2000	Kazan		Russia		Tatarstan		Sweden		Finland
2002	Arkhangelsk		Russia		Russia-2		Finland		Sweden
2003	Krasnogorsk		Sweden		Russia-2		Russia
2006	Krasnogorsk		Russia		Sweden		Baykal-Energiya Irkutsk		Norway
2008	Novosibirsk		Russia		Sweden		Russia-2		Finland
2010	Kirov		Russia		Sweden		Russia-2		Ulyanovsk Oblast
2012	Abakan		Russia		Finland		Russia-2		Khakassia

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