In Russia, hockey is considered the most common and best sport. Since the Russian team has already earned a lot of awards. The national team of Russia, taking into account the victories of the USSR national team, is the leader of the world hockey in terms of the number of victories in the world championships - 27 (22 USSR national team victories and 5 Russian national team victories), and won nine victories at the Olympic Games (7 victories of the USSR team, 1 victory of the United team, 1 victory of Olympic athletes from Russia). In the IIHF ranking, in May 2018, is in third place. Also, Russia is one of the strongest hockey teams in the world and along with the teams of Canada, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic and the US enters the "big hockey six"
