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All time leagues: Juniors | Soviet League | Russian League U18 | Russian League U17 | Pervaya Liga (URSS) | Vysshaya Liga (RUS-2) | Soviet Class B | Russian League U16
This club in 1979-1980: Soviet League
| # | Pos | Player name | State | Born | Height | Weight | Shoots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | Viktor Krivolapov | ![]() | ??.??.???? | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| G | Dmitry Kuroshin | ![]() | 20.05.1958 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| G | Gennady Ushakov | ![]() | 23.03.1957 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| D | Sergei Lubnin | ![]() | 09.11.1959 | 178 cm | 87 kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| D | Anatoli Semenov | ![]() | 30.01.1957 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| D | Yuri Shatalov | ![]() | 13.06.1945 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| LW | Sergei Abramov | ![]() | 10.07.1956 | 179 cm | 90 kg | left | Show profile» | |
| C | Miskhat Fakhrutdinov | ![]() | 22.08.1958 | 179 cm | 83 kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| LW | Sergei Melikov | ![]() | 14.05.1954 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| F | Alexander Orlov | ![]() | 28.09.1954 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» | |
| F | Igor Orlov | ![]() | 28.09.1954 | - cm | - kg | N/A | Show profile» |
* no longer in the club

Winner of the Cup of Russia (1972)
Champion of the RSFSR (1975)
Cup Winner: Shakhtar (Poland, 1976) [1]
Winner of the USSR h2nd division: (1978/1979, 1980/1981, 1986/1987)
Winner OAO Tatneft tournament(1998)
Cup winner Ice Hockey Federation of Russia (2001, 2003, 2006)
Winner of the tournament in memory of A. Tarasova (2002-2005)

Two coaches fired in VHL
The bottom teams in VHL Division East changed coaches.
Izhstal Izhevsk fired Kazakh Nikolai Myshagin and assistant Andrei Zubkov recalling former coach Albert Loginov and promoting Sergei Dushkin from farm club as coach assistant. Izhstal is last in East Division with 19 points in 22 games.
After one month Sputnik Nizhny Tagil fired coach Evgeny Mukhin and replaced him with former assistant Aleksei Fetisov who started the season as head coach and become assistant when Mukhin arrived at club in october
Russia (10),
Ukraine (1)Izhstal Izhevsk participates in season 1979-1980: Soviet League
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