Arystan Temirtau

Kazakh Champion 1999
Kazakh Cup Winner 2011

The HK Arystan Temirtau (Russian ХК Арыстан Темиртау ) is an ice hockey team from the Kazakh Temirtau. The club takes part in the Kazakh Cup.

History

The Hockey Team was founded in 1960 as Stroitel Temirtau and participated in the regional championships. 1973, the rise in the dreittklassige Wtoraja league was managed. Three unsuccessful attempts ascent took the team in the years 1981, 1983 and 1989, to reach the second-rate Soviet Perwaja league. The awaited ascent was made only at the fourth attempt in 1991. After the season 1990/91 the club was renamed in HK Bulat Temirtau. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the team slipped again into the third division, where she took part in the championship of Russia until 1999.

For the 1994/95 season, the team was first nominated as participants in the IIHF Federation Cup. In Group C, the preliminary round first HK Levski Sofia from Bulgaria was defeated 12-1. The subsequent final was lost to the Serb representatives HK Partizan Belgrade with 2:4, thus the team from Temirtau retired from the remaining tournament from.

From 1999 to 2005 the team was HK CSKA Temirtau and was disbanded after the 2004 /05 due to financial difficulties. 2010, the club was re-established as HK Arystan Temirtau and plays since then in the highest league of Kazakhstan.