№1, 2011 How Ukrainians Played Hockey“ Ukrainian hockey is 100 years old” - this volume edition counts 400 pages of exciting history of origin on the Ukrainian land of the first teams which played Canadian hockey with a puck already then, in far 1910. Epilogue to the book was written by Mykola Azarov - one of initiators of the project “Ice Stadiums of Ukraine” (2007).
– How did events develop after the war in the sports society “ – The section of hockey was officially registered in 1927. Not many know today that in the team Myron and Roman, the sons of the known Ukrainian artist Ivan Trusha, played. But, as the team member Omelyan Buchatskyi told that hockey started up very heavily, foremost because of the necessity of considerable material charges. The equipment of hockey player was expensive, for example, the stick cost 7 Polish Zloty, while unskilled worker earned 30 Zloty per month. Mittens were brought from Larysa MARCHUK |