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Club history

The club was founded on July 23, 1922. On this day that the team of the Moscow-Kazan Railway Kazanka played its first match against the Izmailovsky Sports Club.

Before the revolution, employees of the Moscow-Kazan Railway (MKZhD) regularly went in for sports — football in particular. According to some reports, the workers of the Perovsky Carriage Works were going to play football in 1911. However, the passion was rather temporary. And later, in the revolutionary years, people had no time for sports. For this period, mentions of events in railway sports are very rare. 

However, in 1922, a team called Kazanka entered the Moscow Football League and played in the third subgroup B. We have also documented the date of the first match — the starting point in the history of Lokomotiv. So, on July 23, 1922, the Kazanka team played against the Izmailovsky Sports Club — the calendar was published in the Izvestia Sport magazine, which was found in the Russian State Library. 

1923 — the time of reorganization of sports chapters. Clubs that formed spontaneously were subject to be mergered and changed their names. Kazanka was not an exception. Thus, in our history the name had appeared — KOR. 

Thus, Izvestia Sport wrote: “An unprecedented number of applications for Moscow has been received for the autumn games”. According to the publication, they were divided depending on the state of their sites and the degree of organization. KOR founded to be in the 6th group and played its first match on August 12, 1923. 

The document was found in the Central Archive of Moscow, which contains a list of cultural and educational clubs belonging to the Moscow-Kazan railway. In this list, the first item is the October Revolution Club (KOR), located next to the modern Square of the Three Stations at Olkhovskaya, 25. This document is clear evidence that the name of the KOR was assigned to the Moscow-Kazan railway already in the 22nd year. 

However, even with this name, the progenitor of Lokomotiv did not last long. Already in 1931, the next transformation of Soviet sports happened: clubs are formed according to industry. Thus, the “railroad workers” began to be called the Team of Masters of the Moscow-Kazan Railway. The habit often turned out to be stronger than any renaming, so we can see on the posters of 1935 the name of the KOR and in brackets "Kazan Railway". 

In the same 1935, the Stalinets stadium was put into operation — a real home for our team for many years, which was located exactly on the site of the current arena. 

In 1936, the Lokomotiv Sports Society was formed, which included the team of the Kazan Railway. Almost half of the composition of the former Kazanka now plays with the letter "Л" on the chest! The order to create the Lokomotiv society dated 1935 was found in the State Archives of the Russian Federation. In the very first year of existence with the modern name Lokomotiv wins the first trophy — the USSR Football Cup! 

Over the years of its existence, the football team of Lokomotiv Moscow has won many regalia. In 1957, the railway workers repeated their success in the National Cup. Two years later, for the first time in its history, Lokomotiv won silver medals in the USSR championship. 

During the Russian period, Lokomotiv moved into the ranks of the strongest teams in the country. The railroad workers became the champions of Russia three times (2002, 2004, 2018). Nine times (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021) the team won the Russian Cup. Twice (1998 and 1999) Lokomotiv was a semi-finalist of the Cup Winners' Cup.

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