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Belye Medvedi

ice hockey team in Chelyabinsk, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4083006 ↗
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The Belye Medvedi (Russian: Белые Медведи, lit. 'Polar Bears') are a Russian ice hockey team in the Junior Hockey League (MHL). They play in Chelyabinsk, Russia at the Traktor Ice Arena. The team was founded in 2009 and is a junior affiliate of the Kontinental Hockey League's Traktor Chelyabinsk and Chelmet Chelyabinsk of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Belye Medvedi” as ice hockey team in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Belye, Medvedi and hockey can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ice hockey team in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4083006. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Belye Medvedi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.