• July 1976 - team was founded as Torpedo Togliatti. • August 31, 1976 - first exhibition game against
Dizelist Penza (final score was 3:3) • 1991 - Lada enters the
Highest division of the
Soviet Championship League. • April 1994 - Lada wins the
International Hockey League's Russian Championship, becoming the first-ever team with non-Moscow origin to win the then-IHL Cup • December 1994 -
European Cup debut; silver medals won. • December 1995 - Lada becomes a vice-champion of
Spengler Cup after a loss in Final game to Canadian national team. • December 30, 1996 - Lada wins
European Cup. • July 18, 2001 - Valeriy Postnikov quits team after having "attacks aimed at me by the media." • November 2005 - due to financial troubles, 16 players leave the team. To continue regular season, Lada management uses the players from reserve team. • January 2006 - Lada becomes first ever Russian team to win the
IIHF Continental Cup. ==Honors==