Dynamo Moscow is a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n sports club from Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 which was founded in 1923. The bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 team plays in the new Krylatskoye Sports Complex in the outskirts of Moscow. Krylatskoye is a high-tech closed indoor bandy and speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 arena with world-class facilities. It has hosted both Bandy World Championships

Bandy World Championships

The Bandy World Championships are a competition between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy....

 and World Speed Skating Championships

World Speed Skating Championships

The International Skating Union organises the following World Championships in the sport of speed skating:* Allround** Men's Allround** Women's Allround* Sprint** Men's Sprint** Women's Sprint* Men's Single Distances* Women's Single Distances* Short Track...

. The club was a powerhouse of Russian bandy for decades. Eventually it declined and even was relegated to the second highest division. After it qualified for the highest division again at the end of of the 2004-2005 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup

Bandy World Cup

The Bandy World Cup is held every year in Ljusdal in Sweden. 2009 and 2010 it will be played indoors in Sandviken until Ljusdal get their indoor arena...

 for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky

Zorky

Zorky or Zorkiy is a bandy club from Krasnogorsk, Russia. Its team currently plays in the West Russian Bandy League. The club was founded in 1961. Zorky have had some recent successes and reached the finals of the Bandy World Cup, Russian Cup and Champions Cup in the 2006–07 season only to lose...

 in the final.

Honours

• Bandy World Cup
  Bandy World Cup
  The Bandy World Cup is held every year in Ljusdal in Sweden. 2009 and 2010 it will be played indoors in Sandviken until Ljusdal get their indoor arena...
  
  
  • Champions: 2 (2006, 2007)
• Soviet/Russian League
  • Champions: 20 (1936, 1951, 1952, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• European Cup
  European Cup (bandy)
  The European Cup is an annual bandy club competition between teams from Europe. The first edition of the tournament was held in 1974.The tournament has been dominated by Russia , and Sweden. Those three countries have won every single tournament to date.-Champions:...
  
  
  • Champions: 6 (1975, 1976, 1977, 2006, 2008, 2009)

External links

• Official website
• Video from the European Cup triumph in 2009: http://www.bandynet.ru/node/7401