FC Rubin Kazan is a Russia

Russia

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n association football club based in the city of Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

 (Republic of Tatarstan). Rubin won the Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League

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 championship in 2008

Russian Premier League 2008

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 and 2009

Russian Premier League 2009

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Rubin was previously called "Iskra" from 1958 to 1964, and then "Rubin-TAN" from 1992 to 1993.

Having never played in the Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

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, the football club joined the Russian First Division in 1992 and dropped to the Russian Second Division

Russian Second Division

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 in 1994.