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| Full name | Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily Moscow | ||
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| Nickname(s) | “The Planes” | ||
| Founded | 1948 | ||
| Dissolved | 1953 | ||
| 1952 | Soviet Top League, 11th | ||
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VVS Moscow (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: Moscow Military Air Force) was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football, ice hockey, basketball, and volleyball. They won the Soviet national basketball league championship in 1952,[1] as well as the Soviet national volleyball league championship in 1952,[2] and the Soviet national ice hockey league championship three times, in the years 1951, 1952, and 1953[3] following the 1950 Sverdlovsk Air Disaster.
Lieutenant General Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin, was the president of the club. Vsevolod Bobrov played on the football team 1950–52 and the ice hockey team 1949–53. Viktor Tikhonov, the future Soviet national team's coach, played on the ice hockey team, as did Boris Kulagin, future coach of other Moscow-based ice hockey teams. Yevgeny Babich, otherwise a CDKA/CSKA player, played with the VVS hockey team for its three championship seasons.
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