The Volgar Sentinel
Match8 Aug 2026
Dmitry Lesnikov breaks Leningradets hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Dmitry Lesnikov scored in the 85th minute, Leningradets had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Volgar took the lot.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Dmitry Lesnikov's — 8.81
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.81, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexey Mamin stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Volgar
Vyacheslav Krotov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
Volgar find a way past Leningradets
Leningradets made Volgar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yegor Pavlyuchenko joins the Volgar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yegor Pavlyuchenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Volgar promote Foma Borodin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Foma Borodin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Volgar promote Dmitriy Polivanov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dmitriy Polivanov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Stanislav Bobylev joins the Volgar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stanislav Bobylev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Volgar are still strangers to each other
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad The formation has left Ramazan Ibragimov behind