The Chelyabinsk 2 Courier
Match5 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Chelyabinsk 2
11 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Vladimir Kachamin says Chelyabinsk 2 went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Chelyabinsk 2
Alexandr Melezhechkin 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yefim Zenkevich gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yefim Zenkevich has just signed for Chelyabinsk 2, and for once the answer mattered.
Match5 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Chelyabinsk 2 against Nosta
0‑1 to Nosta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yefim Stanislavchuk 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.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Everything rides on Ural 2
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Chelyabinsk 2 know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Igor Rusyaev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Rusyaev, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Dmitry Yudin is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Dmitry Yudin has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The form table has caught Mikhail Chumak
- Looking ahead Arseny Salenko faces his old club