Zauralie Kurgan Explained

Team:Zauralie
Хоккейный клуб «Зауралье»
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City:Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russia
League:VHL
Founded:1962
Arena:Paryshev Sports Palace
(capacity: 2,500)
Coach:Mikhail Zvyagin[1]
Gm:Alexey Chechin[2]
Affiliates:Metallurg Magnitogorsk (KHL)
Yunior Kurgan (MHL-B)
Website:hczaural.ru
Captain:Ilya Bochkov[3]
Owner:Kurgan Oblast,
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Zauralie Kurgan (Хоккейный клуб «Зауралье» Курган) is an ice hockey team in Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.

History

The club was founded in 1994 as a merger between clubs Mostovik (Bridge Worker) and Turbinka (Turbine) as Mostovik-Turbinka Kurgan later becoming a farm club of Rubin Tyumen. It got its current name Zauralie (Trans-Ural) since the 2003–04 season. They became affiliated with Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008, Avangard Omsk in 2012 and Metallurg Novokuznetsk in 2014. With the demotion of Novokuznetsk, Kurgan then entered into an agreement to be the primary affiliate to Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the KHL in 2017.

The club have junior farm-club Yunior Kurgan, are played in MHL-B, second level of junior ice hockey league in Russia.

Honors

National

Stadium

Capacity: 2500

Team Colors

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Front Office and Coaches

Director

General manager

Head coach

Assistant coach

Roster

No.PlayerCountryAgeLast team
Goaltenders
60Sergei Ageyev32 Ariada Volzhsk
72Ilyas Gafiullin23 Slavutych Smolensk
Defenders
3Yevgeni Nesterov29 Dizel Penza
4Nikita Krotikov25 Dizel Penza
5Alexander Brit22 Bars Kazan
7Maxim Semyonov19 Yunior Kurgan
8Valeri Zhukov28 HC Sarov
9Yevgeni Shakurov24 THK Tver
30Yuri Maslov28 Izhstal Izhevsk
35Yevgeni Sulimov23 Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk
76Alexei Chechin35 Buran Voronezh
91Kamil Mingazov20 Tymensky Legion
Forwards
11Alexander Remov22 Khimik Voskresensk
15Maxim Pervukhin27 Ermak Angarsk
17Vyacheslav Mushtayev31 Izhstal Izhevsk
19Denis Tsyganov23 Dizel Penza
23Vladislav Sokolov27 HC Sarov
25Matvei Tymchenko21 Amurskie Tigry Khabarovsk
34Artur Abmyotka24 Neftyanik Almetyevsk
37Oleg Pridannikov32 Ermak Angarsk
40Dmitri Kolgotin22 Dizel Penza
45Anton Rekhtin27 Izhstal Izhevsk
57Alexander Petrov23 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
73Nikita Sirotkin23 Belye Tigry Orenburg
77Albert Zagidullin27 Rubin Tyumen

Head coaches

Sergei Gersonsky (2001-2002)

Mikhail Malko (2002-2006)

Oleg Gushchin (2006-2008)

Igor Zhilinsky (2008-2010)

Vladimir Shikhanov (2010-2013)

Igor Velker (2013)

Sergei Dushkin (2013-2015)

Albert Loginov (2015-2016)

Mikhail Zvyagin (since 2016)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Михаил Звягин возглавил "Зауралье". ru. 2021-05-14. 2022-12-21.
  2. Web site: Новым директором «Зауралья» стал его бывший игрок и тренер. ru. 2022-12-31.
  3. Web site: ИЛЬЯ БОЧКОВ – НОВЫЙ КАПИТАН «ЗАУРАЛЬЯ». ru . 2022-12-21.