Russian Government Cup


Russian Government Cup is a tournament for national teams in bandy, arranged in Russia every other year from 1972 to 2012. When the Bandy World Championships were held every other year, this tournament was held in around the same time of the year 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 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.
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