The Dinamo Kirov Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Alexandr Mironov out for 84 days
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Kirov lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nikolay Kamaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Kirov can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Dinamo Kirov
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andrey Savin in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Dinamo Kirov
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Dinamo Kirov against Leningradets
0‑1 to Leningradets, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Prokhor Isayev to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Roman Polkovnikov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Vladimir Zadiraka knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vladimir Zadiraka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Nikita Dorofeev linked with a move away
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Evgeny Pesikov
- The dugout No place in the plan for Alexandr Stepanov