The All-Russian Hockey League B or VHL-B (Russian: Первенство Всероссийской хоккейной лиги (ВХЛ-Б), Pervenstvo Vserossiyskoy hokkeynoy ligi) is an ice hockey league in Russia. It stands at the third-tier of the Russian ice hockey pyramid, below the second-level VHL and the top-tier KHL.

This article needs to be updated. (December 2016)

Since 1992, it was the First League of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship. During the 2010–11 season, it was known as the Championship of Russia between the club teams of regions (Russian: Первенство России среди клубных команд регионов, Pervenstvo Rossii sredi klubnykh komand regionov), which was considered a feeder league to both the KHL and the VHL. A majority of the teams were simply junior versions of their professional counterparts. During the era of the Soviet Championship League, it was referred to as "Class B"^{[citation needed]}

The league in 2010–11 featured clubs from the 2009–10 season of the Pervaya Liga and also clubs from the 2009–10 season of the Vysshaya Liga that were not accepted into the VHL for 2010–11.^{[citation needed]}

On August 23, 2011, the FHR announced the creation of the Russian Hockey League that replaced the Pervaya Liga. The league had 2 divisions. The West Division featured teams from both the Central and Povolzhie divisions of the Pervaya Liga. The East Division featured teams from the Ural and West Siberia division as well as teams from the Siberian and Far East division. The Russian Hockey League was also the same name of the organization responsible for organizing the top-tier hockey league of Russia at the time that existed from 1996 and 2008, when it was rebranded and reorganized as the Kontinental Hockey League.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to the beginning of the 2014–15 season, there was a big decrease in league members (with seven teams either leaving to join a different league or disbanding altogether). In connection with this number of losses, FHR officials who ran the league were forced to combine the two territorial divisions into one league table.^{[citation needed]}

After the 2014–15 season and prior to the 2015–16 season, the FHR transferred the organization of the RHL (which had seen its membership numbers plummet from 24 teams in 2011/12 to nine in 2014/15) to the Supreme Hockey League, with the hope of developing a better third-tier competition with an eventual promotion/relegation system with the second-level league thus creating the Supreme Hockey League Championship.^{[citation needed]}

It was planned to replenish the league from the following sources:

• VHL teams, for financial reasons, leaving the league.
• Foreign clubs. For example, interest to the league has been shown by representatives of Latvia.
• Teams from different cities of Russia.
• Independent teams of the MHL and/or the NMHL who left due to reorganization.^[1]

Season Champion Finalist Series Result Bronze Medalist Regular season winner 2011–12 Slavutych Smolensk Buran Voronezh RR THK Tver Buran Voronezh 2012–13 Mordovia Saransk Yamal Sterkhi 3–2 Slavutych Smolensk Slavutych Smolensk 2013–14 Slavutych Smolensk Mordovia Saransk [NK] Altai Barnaul & Yamal Sterkhi[*] Slavutych Smolensk 2014–15 HC Rostov CSK VVS Samara 3–0 Mordovia Saransk & Slavutych Smolensk[*] Slavutych Smolensk 2015–16 HC Tambov HC Rostov 4–1 Mordovia Saransk HC Rostov 2016–17 HC Rostov Slavutych Smolensk 4–1 Mordovia Saransk HC Rostov 2017-18 HC Tambov HC Cheboksary 4–0 Mordovia Saransk HC Rostov 2018-19 HC Rostov Mordovia Saransk 4–0 HC Cheboksary HC Rostov

• ^[*]: Both losing semifinalists received bronze medals
• ^[NK]: Result not known

• Kontinental Hockey League
• VHL
• Junior Hockey League
• NMHL