Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
- Master of Wysschaja League 2003, 2007
- Soviet vice-champion in 1961
- Promotion to the Super League 1997, 1999, 2003, 2007
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Торпедо Нижний Новгород ) is a Russian ice hockey club from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It was founded on 1947 as a Torpedo Gorky and was for many years the top division of the Soviet Union. The home matches of the club were held in the Sports Palace Konowalenko which is after Wiktor Konowalenko, one of the most famous Russian goalkeeper, named. Since 2007, the Sports Palace of Trade Unions is the home ground for torpedoes.
History
Since the establishment of Torpedo Gorky played the first team of the club in the Soviet league and could reach the 1961 runner-up. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorky was again renamed Nizhny Novgorod. Logically also changed the hockey club changed its name to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. By 1996, the association held in the International Championship of CIS countries before torpedo a so-called lift - team was that on or dismounted after each season. Between 1999 and 2002, the club was again established in the Super League. In both 2003 and 2007, the team reached the torpedo winning the championship of the Wysschaja league. Since 2008, the club participates in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Squad of the 2013/14 season
Booth: 2013
Former notable players
- Viktor Konowalenko
- Mikhail Warnakow
- Vladimir Kowin
- Alexander Skvortsov
- Yuri Fedorov
- Andrei Konowalenko
- Mika Noronen
Trainer since 1946
- 2004-2005: Mikhail Warnakow
- 2005-2006: Anatoli Bogdanov
- 2006-2007: Vladimir Jursinow
- 2007-2008: Pyotr Vorobyov
- 2008-2009: Yevgeny Popochin
- 2009: Sergei Michaljow
- 2009-2010: Yevgeny Popochin
- 2010-2011: Vladimir Golubowitsch
- 2011-2012: Kari Jalonen
- 2012-2013: Vyacheslav Rjanow
- Since 2013: Peteris Skudra