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Women’s hockey is here to stay – and the recent Moscow FemFest was out to tell the story of how Russia’s Women’s Hockey League is a trailblazer in giving women the opportunity to play their game at the highest level.

Anna Prugova was the youngest hockey competitor at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, debuting between the pipes for Team Russia at sixteen years and eighty-six days old. The Khabarovsk native’s career had begun only a handful of years prior, when her father stood the young goalie in front of a glass window and began to shoot pucks in the family’s backyard.