page_title: List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Russia
section_title: Goaltenders
hierarchical_section_title: List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Russia / Goaltenders
caption_attribution_description: English: Evgeni Nabokov of the Russia men's national ice hockey team, warming up before a match against the Latvia men's national ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place on February 16, 2010.
context_page_description: Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920; after its introduction at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it was permanently added to the Winter Olympic Games in 1924. Russia has participated in 6 of 23 tournaments, sending 14 goaltenders and 84 skaters. The Russian national team is co-ordinated by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and players are chosen by the team's management staff.
  Prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian players competed as part of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Nine former Soviet states became part of the IIHF and started competing internationally, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Russia. At the 1992 Olympics, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan competed as one entity, known as the Unified Team. In the final, the Unified Team defeated Canada to win gold while Czechoslovakia won the bronze. Russia's first tournament as a separate nation came at the 1994 Games, where they lost the bronze medal game to Sweden. The following tournament, Russia advanced to the gold medal game, but was shut out by the Czech Republic and settled for the silver medal.
caption: Evgeni Nabokov has played in more games (10) and won more games (6) than any other Russian goaltender.
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