The book “Secrets of Soviet Hockey” will reveal to the reader the inner world of perhaps the most popular game in the USSR - ice hockey. The games are purely Canadian in origin, but in spirit they are exclusively Russian! A privileged, “party” sport, as was customary in the Soviet Union, the sport had the closedness of an armored tank in terms of information content. We truly learned all its terrible secrets and amazing secrets only many years later. A lot of conflict situations with hockey players moving from club to club; tragic fates of the players; international tours of Soviet hockey players - as the surest way of “left” income; scandalous dismissals of coaches and deadly disagreements between functionaries - all these long-term secrets and secrets will become known to the reader.