How BET Russian Rugby Championship clubs have changed in the transfer window

Yenisei-STM (Krasnoyarsk)

The current champion of the country has a well-coordinated backbone of the team, played over the years, so no one rightly expected any changes in him. Denis Mashkin and Yefim Ryabischuk, as well as South African Franco Schutte, returned to the club after a loan spell at Metallurg. In addition, the composition of the “heavy machine” was replenished by second-line striker Yegor Alekseev, who played for Slava. The promising youth of the Krasnoyarsk club has been loaned to Khimik with coach Yuri Krasnobaev – Evgeny Malyshkin, Alexander Belosludtsev, Alexei Bernauchis, Maxim Kemaev, Daniil Suksov and Semyon Garmanov will spend the second part of the season in Dzerzhinsk. Denis Semikov has been loaned to the Saint Petersburg team, which plays in the Major League Rugby Championship.

Came: Denis Mashkin, Franco Schutte, Efim Ryabischuk (all – Metallurg, back from loan), Yegor Alekseev (Slava).

Gone: Evgeniy Malyshkin, Alexander Belosludtsev, Alexey Bernauchis, Maxim Kemaev, Daniil Suksov and Semyon Garmanov (all – Khimik, loan), Denis Semikov (St. Petersburg team, loan).

“Arrow” (Kazan)

Kazan “Strela” shows decent form during the Russian Rugby Championship BET. The team can be considered one of the championship contenders. There weren’t that many out-of-season goers, but they turned out to be quite interesting. Maxim Shevtsov (who had moved to Slava from Dynamo three months earlier) and Rafael Loskutov moved from Slava to Kazan. At the end of the window, South African legionnaire Morne Hubert, who played for many South African clubs well known, arrived at Strela .

Came: Artyom Kolotov (Tagany Rog), Maxim Shevtsov, Rafael Loskutov (both Slava), Morne Hubert (Sharks, South Africa)

Gone: Georgy Kuzin (chemist, loan), Artyom Karamyshev (Lipetsk, loan)

Lokomotiv-Penza

Penza “Locomotive” is also able to impose the “Yenisei-STM” fight for the championship. As with the Arrow, there are few power-ups, but they will all be useful. Only Slava players, Franco Nodier, Tamerlan Khubaev and Grigol Tsirekidze, have joined the training of “railway workers”. Young players moved from Lokomotiv to Dzerzhinsk, which lacked training at the Khimik base.

Came: Franco Nodier, Grigol Tsirekidze, Tamerlan Khubaev (three – Slava);

Gone: Viktor Telnov, Nikolai Davydov, Alexei Nastavshev, Pavel Kuraev, Danil Zyablintsev (all – Khimik, loan)

Krasny Yar (Krasnoyarsk)

Krasny Yar’s main goal for the second part of the season is to take at least fourth place and make the playoffs. The club’s transfer work can hardly be called too active, but it was. Sarkis Yeghiazaryan and Samir Kheirkhabarov have already graced the game with untraditional discipline for Krasnoyarsk in the Russian Rugby 7s Championship. South Africans – Hein Stenkamp, ​​Divan Rossow would join the teams.

Came: Sarkis Yeghiazaryan (free agent), Samir Kheirkhabarov (Zastava-7), Nikoloz Sukhashvili (Metallurg), Hein Steenkamp, ​​​​Divan Rossow

Gone: Konstantin Krivonosov, Sergei Belenkov (both metallurgists)

“VVA-Podmoskovye” (Monino)

Silence reigned in the offseason for the Monino club. “Voenlets” only signed the age of Moscow striker “Glory” Alexei Skobiola.

Came: Alexey Skobiola (“Glory”);

Gone:-

Slava (Moscow)

But “Slava”, unlike its neighbors in the Moscow region, made noise in the market. In December, the camp of “watchmakers” replenished with a whole scattering of players from the Moscow “Dynamo”, and in the spring many rugby players went to other clubs of the PARI Championship of Russia and not only.

Came: Ivan Kravtsov, Maxim Shevtsov, Sergey Perekhoda, Tamerlan Khubaev, Ilya Shapovalov, Gleb Farkov, Ilya Datsenko (all – Dynamo)

Gone: Franco Nodier, Grigol Tsirekidze, Tamerlan Khubaev (all – Lokomotiv-Penza), Alexei Skobiola (VVA-Podmoskovye), Sergei Shleenkov (chemist), Nikolai Baleskov (Spartak), Ramis Safarov, Evgeny Mishechkin, Kirill Kuznetsov (three – Dynamo), Maxim Shevtsov, Rafael Loskutov (both – Strela)

Dynamo (Moscow)

Dynamo Moscow has had an excellent off-season. With the arrival of the legendary Yuri Kushnarev as sporting director, the team has changed significantly, and thanks to a cooperation agreement with CSKA, the Whites-Blues have been replenished with a very high quality youth.

Came: Sofa Nel (Pirets, South Africa), Alexey Solovyov (Narva Zastava), Ramis Safarov, Evgeny Mishechkin, Kirill Kuznetsov (all – Slava), Pavel Butenko (Metallurgy), Alexandru Kolev (Chemist), Pavel Shteizel, Ivan Dorofeev, Roman Chekalin, Sergei Kozlov, Kirill Lykov, Maxim Khilchuk, Vadim Muzhev (all – CSKA, loan), Pavel Kuznetsov (free agent), Brandon Wilkie, Phillip Krause

Gone: Sergey Perekhoda, Maxim Shevtsov, Ivan Kravtsov, Tamerlan Khubaev, Ilya Shapovalov, Gleb Farkov, Ilya Datsenko (all – Slava), Revaz Brodzeli (Kazbegi, Georgia), Earl Dauri (Metallurgy)

Metallurgy (Novokuznetsk)

Residents of Novokuznetsk traditionally spend the low season modestly, but tastefully. The most noisy transition was the transfer of Earl Dauri from Dynamo Moscow.

Came: Konstantin Krivonosov, Sergei Belenkov (both from Krasny Yar), Earl Dauri (Dynamo), Danil Zavialov (chemist);

Gone: Nikoloz Sukhashvili (Krasny Yar), Pavel Butenko (Dynamo), Denis Mashkin, Franco Schutte, Efim Ryabischuk (three – Yenisei-STM, on loan), Sergey Gresev (St. Petersburg team)

“Chemist”

In the first part of the season, “Khimik” could not win a single victory, but the strengthening of the offseason could change the current situation. Two test matches against the Russian national under-19 team, in which the Dzerzhinsk team won twice, confirm this.

Came: Sergei Shleenkov (Slava), Giorgi Sharashenidze (Aresi, Georgia), Viktor Telnov, Nikolay Davydov, Alexei Nastavshev, Pavel Kuraev, Danil Zyablintsev (all – Lokomotiv-Penza, loan), Viktor Kukhorenko (Tagany Rog”), Evgeniy Malyshkin, Alexander Belosludtsev, Alexey Bernauchis, Maxim Kemaev, Daniil Suksov and Semyon Garmanov (all – Yenisei-STM, loan), Georgy Kuzin (Arrow, loan), Kuan Eiman (Leopards, South Africa)

Gone: Andrey Garbuzov, Albert Nikoghosyan (both – career leader), Alexandru Kolev (Dynamo), Danil Zavialov (Metallurg), Heinrich Cronje, Justin Lambert (both – Rapid, Bucharest), Yuzhan Botha (Arka, Poland”)