Marat Volkov

Left Midfielder - Kvant
12 Nov 2026
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The Kvant Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Kvant sink to position 13

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

A falling-out at Kvant

Faruk Bezdrob and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

The goals have deserted Kvant

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kvant can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Evgeny Yegorov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kvant against Znamya Truda

0‑1 to Znamya Truda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yegor Pozdnyakov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

7 new faces, and Kvant are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Dmitri Alexandrov left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Maxim Timchenko suspended

One booking too many, and Maxim Timchenko sits out. Kvant lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

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The Kvant Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Faruk Bezdrob, 20, steals the show — 7.79

Marked 7.79 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Kvant

Yegor Pozdnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Kvant rebuffed over Maxim Pechenkin

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SKA Khabarovsk have kept their man, and Kvant go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Evgeny Yegorov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Kvant see off Arsenal Tula 2

Three points for Kvant, 2‑1 the final word against Arsenal Tula 2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Kvant supporters have found a favourite in Nikita Baranov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nikita Baranov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Kvant

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Dmitri Alexandrov, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Squad

The first one for Evgeny Yegorov

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Kvant have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief

3 Edition

The Kvant Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Evgeny Yegorov

Kvant and Zenit Penza have settled on $42.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Kvant count the cost of losing Yegor Pozdnyakov

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets

Kvant bid $11.0K for Ivan Ovsyankin

The offer went to Luki-Energiya this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Kvant

Yegor Pozdnyakov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on David Berezov

Kvant asked and Cherepovets said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Yegor Pozdnyakov

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Kvant were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Market

Still no ink between Kvant and Nikita Kukanov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kvant, another week without a signature from Nikita Kukanov.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Dmitri Alexandrov on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Azamat Djumaev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief