Russian Bandy Supreme League
Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.
In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups.
In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. The teams play around 24 games and move to a Group A & Group B play-off section. From here the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are all single elimination games. The seasons generally runs from December to the finals in March.
The league is mainly a development league as can be seen by the number of affiliated clubs, named Rodina-2 for example, although a few independent clubs are present.
Current teams
The teams playing in the Russian Vysshaya Liga for the 2022–23 season are below:| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| Kuzbass-2 | Keremovo | Khimik Stadium | 17,000 |
| Sibselmash-2 | Novosibirsk | Sibselmash Stadium | 8,000 |
| Baykal-Energiya-2 | Irkutsk | Rekord Stadium | 5,300 |
| SKA-Neftyanik-2 | Khabarovsk | Arena Yerofey | 10,000 |
| Yenisey-2 | Krasnoyarsk | Yenisey Stadium | 5,000 |
| Start-2 | Nizhny Novgorod | Start Stadium | 6,200 |
| Dynamo Kazan-2 | Kazan | Raketa Stadium | 7,500 |
| Sayany | Abakan | Sayany Stadium | 21,000 |
| Vostok | Arsenyev | East Stadium | |
| Stroitel | Syktyvkar | Respublikansky Stadium | 15,000 |
| Volga-2 | Ulyanovsk | Trud Stadium | 8,309 |
| Dynamo Krylatskoye | Moscow | Krylatskoye Stadium | 8,000 |
| Rodina-2 | Kirov | Rodina Stadium | 7,500 |
| SKA-Sverdlovsk | Yekaterinburg | Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium | 6,000 |
| Vodnik-2 | Arkhangelsk | Trud Stadium | 10,000 |
| Mayak | Krasnoturinsk | Mayak Stadium | 5,000 |
| Zorky Krasnogorsk | Krasnogorsk | Zorky | 8,000 |
| Monchegorsk | Monchegorsk | DYuSSh-3 | 5,000 |
| Znamya-Udmurtiya | Votkinsk | Znamya | 5,000 |
| Nikelshchik Verkhny Ufaley | Verkhny Ufaley | Nikelshchik | 5,000 |
| Lokomotiv | Orenburg | Orenburg | 7,900 |
| Akzhayik | Uralsk | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 |