Editing Bandy (section)

====World Championships and Russian performance====
[[File:Bandy pictogram.svg|thumb|A bandy pictogram]]
Since the 1950s, when the Soviet Union ended its isolation and started to take part in international sports events, there has been a reason to play [[Bandy World Championship|world championships]]. The International Bandy Federation was founded in 1955 and the first world championships were played in 1957 with the Soviet Union and then Russia (as its successor country in 1993) almost consistently in a top position in the sport of bandy alongside Sweden. Finland has won once, in 2004.

In a similar fashion, Russia, along with Sweden, has emerged as one of the two dominant women's bandy nations internationally in the [[Women's Bandy World Championship]].