The Soviet Championship was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Ukraine, instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy, with history of the game in Ukraine dating several centuries into the past. Following the dissolution of the USSR, the league was temporarily renamed the CIS Championship in 1992. This organization was the direct predecessor of the International Hockey League, and subsequent Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine (FHU) and current Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Twice, in 2003 and in 2006, the player of Donetsk hockey school Oleg Tverdovsky became the owner main in hockey of a trophy-cup of Stenli.
25 more players participated in 1989-2000 in the championships of the USSR, the CIS, Belarus and other states top-level.
