Alexandr Kalinovsky

Defensive Midfielder - Zenit Penza
3 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

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The Zenit Penza Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

At last: Zenit Penza win one

15 matches without a win, and then this, against Rotor 2. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

A falling-out at Zenit Penza

Alexey Naidenov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Zenit Penza supporters have found a favourite in Yaroslav Terechev

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yaroslav Terechev has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Zenit Penza find a way past Rotor 2

Rotor 2 made Zenit Penza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Zenit Penza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gleb Geikin 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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Yaroslav Terechev

7.55, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Zenit Penza had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Vsevolod Zinovyev has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Vsevolod Zinovyev on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alexandr Kalinovsky

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Kalinovsky, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Mukhamed Mizaushev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mukhamed Mizaushev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Zenit Penza Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Yaroslav Terechev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Terechev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zenit Penza the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Artur Arslanov delivers — 7.47

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Artur Arslanov scored, was marked 7.47, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets

Yegor Besaev turns down Zenit Penza

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: CSKA Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom

Yaroslav Terechev has agreed to leave Zenit Penza for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Player ratings

Evgeny Yegorov scored one and made one — 7.75

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.75, and 2 involvements.

Squad

Daniil Kashmin 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 Zenit Penza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Yury Fedoseev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yury Fedoseev commits to Zenit Penza for another 1 years.

Transfer targets

Astrakhan tell Zenit Penza: Danila Prokopjev 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.

Squad

Words at Zenit Penza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexey Naidenov 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.

In brief