The Volna Courier
Match1 Aug 2026
Volna run riot against Orenburg 2
6‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market3 Aug 2026
Artem Abramov 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 Volna can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Both of them Kirill Bogdanets's — 9.43
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.43, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mikhail Zabotkin takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Erik Gubiev, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Artem Abramov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Abramov and Volna agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Volna
Kirill Bogdanets and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match1 Aug 2026
Mikhail Zabotkin among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Mikhail Zabotkin on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Volna and Orenburg 2.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One of those days for Mikhail Zabotkin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Squad Words at Volna training over how hard people work
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Mikhail Zabotkin
- Market Rodina M watching Artem Tarasov