The Avangard Courier
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Nikita Artemov out for 42 days
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Avangard lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match31 Aug 2026
Avangard are in real trouble now
Position 7, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market31 Aug 2026
Yegor Yunusov agrees terms with Znamya Truda
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Avangard people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vikenty Schipachev puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Avangard, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Avangard
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vladislav Tereshkin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Avangard they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
David Ozmanov due for a Avangard medical
Everything agreed with Ufa, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Avangard
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Avangard rebuffed over Andrey Khityaev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rotor have kept their man, and Avangard go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad Words at Avangard training over how hard people work
- Match A bad afternoon for Avangard against Dinamo Vladivostok
- The dugout No hiding place for Vikenty Schipachev