The Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
Denis Sadovskiy gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Denis Sadovskiy has just signed for Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Pavel Kotlyarov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Denis Polyakov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Denis Polyakov and Arsenal Dzerzhinsk agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Denis Polyakov 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 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
One of their own: Ilja Vasin
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Arsenal Dzerzhinsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Vasiljev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Arsenal Dzerzhinsk a point
Minute 87, against Slavia Mozyr, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Market3 Aug 2026
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Vladislav Vasilyuchek are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Yuriy Lovets's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
- Player ratings Ilja Vasin stands above it all
- Transfer targets Arsenal Dzerzhinsk try to borrow Danila Glushakov
- Transfer targets Arsenal Dzerzhinsk try to borrow Kirill Apanasevich