The Nosta Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maxim Shalonikov keeps Nosta in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stanislav Irshev 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 Nosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Daniil Bortsov would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Daniil Bortsov is living that version at Nosta, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Yenisey tell Nosta: Nikita Bogatyrev is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Nosta against Rubin 2
0‑2 to Rubin 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Savely Ushakov joins the Nosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Savely Ushakov 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
Boris Antonov steps up from the Nosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Boris Antonov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rostislav Guryev joins the Nosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rostislav Guryev 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
Valentin Nikulin steps up from the Nosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentin Nikulin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Yegor Pigaev
- Squad Mikhail Pilipenko has outgrown this division
- The dugout The view from the dugout