Pavel Bure — ice hockey player with roots in the USSR
Pavel Bure (born 31 March 1971, Moscow) is a Russian former ice hockey player. He came through the CSKA Moscow hockey school and joined the Vancouver Canucks in 1991, winning the Calder Trophy in 1992 and scoring 60 goals in both 1992–93 and 1993–94. He also played for the Florida Panthers and New York Rangers, retired in 2005 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012. He renounced his US citizenship in 2016 and lives in Moscow.
Tracing the roots — Moscow (Russian SFSR)
Born in Moscow in 1971, son of Vladimir Bure, who won four Olympic swimming medals for the USSR (one silver, three bronze). The Bure family, of Swiss origin, were watchmakers to the Russian court from 1815 to 1917. He left Moscow for Vancouver with his father and brother in September 1991.
Moscow (Russian SFSR). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.