Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg

Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg (Russian: ХК Динамо-Энергия Екатеринбург) was an ice hockey team in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg
City	Yekaterinburg, Russia
Founded	1950
Folded	2007
Home arena	Profsoyuznyi Sports Palace
Colours	Blue, white
Franchise history
1950-1967	Spartak Sverdlovsk
1967-1992	Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk
1992-1997	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
1997-1998	Spartak Yekaterinburg
1998-2007	Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg

History

The club was founded in 1950 as Spartak Sverdlovsk. They played in the top-level leagues in the Soviet Union and Russia. They also won the second-level Soviet and Russian leagues eight times, in 1955, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1984, 1986, and 1999.

The club folded in 2007, and a new club in Yekaterinburg, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, was founded a year earlier.

Notable players

• Pavel Datsyuk
• Ilya Byakin
• Sergei Shepelev
• Nikolai Khabibulin
• Alexei Yashin
• Vladimir Malakhov

External links

• Team profile on eurohockey.com
• Team profile on hockeyarenas.net