About the company

International Ice Hockey Academy organises lectures, seminars, master classes for coaches. Company also runs individual training sessions for hockey players.

Author of the edition: Karmanov Yuri

Author of the edition: Karmanov Yuri (26.04.1952)
Graduated from Ryazan Pedagogical Institute in 1980 Goalkeeper. H.C. ‘Soviet Wings’, Moscow.

Sport career:

1970 - 1973 Hockey Club CSKA Moscow
1972 Gold medal of USSR Championships, CSKA Moscow, coach A.V. Tarasov
Winner of European Champion Cup, CSKA Moscow
Gold medal of USSR Junior Championships
1969 USSR National Junior team, winner of International tournament "Olympic Hopes", Berlin, GDR

Ex-Vice President HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the youth hockey development department
In different years worked as:
G.M. of HC CSKA, coach Tihonov V.V., G.M. of HC Khimik Moscow Region, G.M. of HC Avangard Omsk.
As a sport director of HC Krylia Sovetov, Moscow.
For 12 years worked as NHL scout.
In 1980-1988 - coach of junior teams H.C. «Red October», H.C.«Soviet Wings» Moscow.
In the period of 2011-2016 worked in HC «Lokomotiv Yaroslavl» on players developing programs. Has organised publishing manuals: «Defensemen», «Training on stances», «Testing», produced film «The first steps»

Writing team

Creating and publishing of the Manual:

Karmanov Yuriy

Project head manager

Karmanova Svetlana

Administrative director

Gorbatyuk Nadezhda

Publisher of the project

Cherkasov Sergey

Creative director


Project consultants



Biryukov A.V. - Honored Coach of Russia, adviser
(coach of P. Bure, O.Petrov, O. Saprykin, N.Filatov, D.Denisov)
Lou Vairo – coach of USA, Italy, Netherland national teams, USA Hockey Director of special programs, USA Hall of Fame member
Korolyov Y.V. - Honored Coach of the USSR, Professor, IIHA Hall of Fame member
Kamenetskiy Y.L. - Honored Coach of Russia, Professor
Vorobiyov P.I. - Honored Coach of Russia, Honored Coach of Latvian SSR
(coach of V.Kozlov, V.Koshechkin, A. Yemelin, I.Grigorenko, A. Syomin)
Jorma Valtonen – 10-time World Championships participant, 3-time Olympic Games participant, Head coach of women’s national team of Finland – Europe championship, Finland Hall of Fame member
Plyushchev V.A. - Honored Coach of Russia, Russian National Teams coach, Junior World Champion in 2002, 2003
Tolstikov V.A. – Honored Master of Sports, 5-time USSR Champion, Honored Coach of Russia, Junior World Champion - coach
Salficky Dusan - World Champion, Bronze medal of Olympic Games, GM of HC Pardubice, Czech Republic
Krister Falk - methodist coach, Sweden
Kanareikin F.L. - Honored Coach of Russia, Russian Junior National Team coach, KHL coach of HC Spartak, Atlant, Metallurg, Avangard
Kurdin G.G. - Honored Coach of Russia, Vityaz Hockey Academy
(coach of N.Kucherov, N.Gusev, I. Ozhiganov)
Konyushev Alexey – Methodist
Balashov Y.A. - Honored Coach of Russia, Head coach Dinamo hockey school
(coach of A.Kovalyov, A.Zhamnov, A.Nikolishin, M.Shtalenkov)
Jim Britten – coach of Sweden National Junior Team , Denmark National Team , author of hockey programs
Erfilov V.G.- Honored Coach of the USSR
(coach of V. Tretiak, V. Myshkin, A.Trefilov)
Sean Finn – Coach-Methodist, Canada, methodist of H.C. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Prokhorov V.V. - Honored Master of Sports, Olympic Games Champion, Head Coach of U18 Russian National Team
Goldobin V.P. - Honored Coach of Ukrainian SSR
(coach of A.Zhitnik, A.Panikorovskiy, I.Mirnov, D.Kazionov)
Plotyanskiy V.P. – ‘Krylia Sovietov Hockey Academy, coach of different clubs of Italy
(coach of A.Savchenko, I.Zelenchev, M. Chukanov)
Tiikaya Y. – Director of coach education programs, Verumaki University, Finland
Pavlov N.Y. – Coach of Hockey School Rus’ Moscow
(coach of D.Kulikov, A.Volkov, Y. Rykov, D.Vishnevskiy)
Goltsev B.N. – Coach of Dinamo Hockey Academy
(coach of D. Khristich, R. Fedotenko, M.Tatarinov, A.Radulov)
Batuyeva A.E. – Doctor of medicine, Sport development department’s professor of Sport University, Chelyabinsk
Grigorkin S.M. – Master of Sports, Honored Coach of Russia, Hockey Theory and Methodist, Professor of Ural Physical Education university
Glazkov V.I. - Physician of Superior Category, doctor of National Hockey Teams of the USSR and Russia, HC CSKA, HC Dinamo, Russian National bicycling team