Rubin Tyumen

Rubin Tyumen
City	Tyumen, Russia
League	VHL 2010–present Vysshaya Liga 1992–1994, 1999–2010 RSL 1996–1999 IHL 1994–1996 Soviet League Class A3 1972–1979, 1983–1992
Founded	1972
Home arena	Sports Palace Tyumen (3,300 seats)
Colours
Head coach	Miskhat Fakhrutdinov
Affiliate	Tyumen Legion (MHL)
Website	http://www.hcrubin.ru/

Rubin Tyumen is a professional ice hockey team in Tyumen, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.

The club's direct predecessor was a team called Vodnik Tyumen. It participated in lower levels of the Soviet hockey championship representing a Tyumen shipbuilding plant. In 1972, its place was taken by a team called Rubin ("Ruby") that began to represent a Tyumen automobile plant. It participated in the second group of the USSR championship "A". In 1995, it was reestablished as Gazovik Tyumen and changed its name back to Rubin Tyumen in 2010. In 2011, Rubin became the first VHL champions.

• VHL Bratina Cup: 2011

IHL Championship (1): 1996

• Official site

This European ice hockey team-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e