National Badminton Federation of Russia

The National Badminton Federation of Russia (Russian Национальная Федерация Бадминтона России ) is the supreme national administrative organization in the sport of badminton in Russia. The association was founded in 1992 as a successor to the Badminton Association of CIS, which followed on the existence of the Badminton Association of the USSR.

History

Badminton was played in Russia since the 1950s. The Badminton Association of the USSR was soon a member of the Badminton World Federation, then known as International Badminton Federation. The Soviet Union in 1974 also a member of the continental governing body Badminton Europe, the then still trading under the name of European Badminton Union. With the end of the Soviet Union in 1990 and the end of the Soviet Union was sealed, and the organization was in 1991 in the Association of CIS on, which existed until 1992 and was replaced by the National Badminton Federation of Russia. In 2005, the hitherto existing in parallel Russian Badminton Federation (RBF ) was dissolved, which had taken over the duties in the field of badminton already in the former RSFSR.

Significant Events, Tournaments and Leagues

Russia Open
St. Petersburg White Nights
Individual Championship
Team championship
Junior Championship

President

Vladimir Yakovlevich Lifschitz, founding president in 1992
Sergei Mikhailovich Schachrai, President since 2005

Credentials

Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. Robert Hale, London, 1987, p 174, ISBN 0-7090-2796-6
Http://www.badm.ru/

Former member associations CSSR | DDR | USSR

Badminton Association
Badminton in Russia
Sports Federation ( Europe)
Russian organization
National Sports Association
Established in 1992

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian Open (Badminton) Belgian Badminton Federation Badminton Scotland

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