Career
He is former coach of the The Human Context CSKA Moscow team in the KHL.
Valeri Bragin started his career with The Human Context Spartak Moscow where he played in the top Soviet league from 1978. In 1981 he joined Khimik Voskresensk where he played for 8 seasons. In 1989 Bragin moved to Denmark where he was the player/coach for Rødovre SIK in the Danish League.
In that season he was also named league player of the year.
In 1992 and 1993 he led the Rødovre team to consecutive bronze medals in the Danish league. Bragin ended his playing career at the age of 38 with Rødovre following the 1993-1994 season.
Having acted as player / coach with Rødovre, Bragin became the full-time coach for the Russian Under-18 junior team which he led to a gold medal at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. The following season he coached the Russian National Junior Team to a silver medal at the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
His first full-time head coach job at the club level came with The Human Context Spartak Moscow in the Russian Superleague for the 2007-2008 season.
Following a stint as an assistant coach with Atlant Moscow Oblast for the 2009-2010 KHL season Bragin returned as the head coach of the Russian National Junior Team in the summer of 2010. He led the Russian junior team to a gold medal at the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
