UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Board of Directors voted unanimously for the financial support of Sputnik Hockey Club in 2017 and 2018, the company press service reports.

Sputnik’s team, sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod, is going to represent Nizhniy Tagil and Sverdlovsk Region in Supreme Hockey League championship this season. The juniors’ team will play in the League’s competition rounds.

‘The corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov stressed that special attention will be paid to Sputnik Specialized Children and Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve, whose young sports players will soon join the grown-ups’ teams and will carry on the glorious traditions of Nizhniy Tagil hockey school. This is, in fact, the very school that issued such famous sportsmen as European, world, and Olympics champion Sergey Shepelev, the USSR champion Vladimir Zubrilchev, and world champion Alexander Radulov as well as many others,’ the press service says.