Ufa Salavat Yulaev Russian Ice Hockey Cup in Capital City Bashkortostan

Salavat Yulaev (In Russian the ice hockey team is spelt Салават Юлаев) exists as a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan within the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of ice hockey of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Ufa is the capital city of The Republic of Bashkortostan. The area is approximately 1200km South-East of Moscow near the Ural mountains.

The team is named after an Ufa legend Salavat Yulaev, a national hero of Bashkortostan. Salavat Yulaev was a fighter and poet who lived from 1752 until 1800. He was a leader within the Peasant war of 1773-1775. His poet style took inspiration from the beauty of Baskiria in Ufa, the landscape, as well as the glory of fighting against tsarist.

Salavat Yulaev Ufa has played in 77 international matches against such formidable teams as Bulgaria, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Finland, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and Sweden. Salavat Yulaev has a very comfortable record of 67 victories, 5 ties, and 5 defeats).

The team based in Ufa actually has several differing nationalities as well as the predominant Russian team members. Patrick Thoresen from Norway features in the top list of scoring leaders with 110 GPs 122 pts, second place to Alexander Radulov who’s on 160 GPs 191 pts.

European Championships - Kontinental Hockey League - KHL – Playoffs saw Salavat Yulaev win 3 to 2 at home against HC Atlant Moscow for a 2011 1^st place win. The win at the Ufa Arena (Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation) sees Salavat Yulaev become champions of the KHL. In addition to the Ufa win Salavat Yulaev now holds the Gargarin Cup.

The Gargarin cup (names after the famous cosmonaut and first man into space) is a result of Ufa’s leading ice hockey team scoring a fantastic win in the payoffs between the Eastern and Western conference leaders.

As Ufa relishes in the delight of a famous ice hockey win so there scopes are firmly set on extended their ice hockey dominance within the Russian Federation as well as continuing their success in Ufa.

Salavat has his sky-blue jelan on

Bow and arrows are tied to his belt,

Bow and arrows are tied to his belt.

Hai, hai, hai, he destroyed the enimies,

Hai, hai, hai, the batyr of the Bashkir land.

He didn’t spare himself in the battle,

Won the glory in his native land,

Won the glory in the Bashkir land.

Hai, hai, hai, in the plains by the Ural range

The song of glory resounded,

The song of glory resounded.