The Ural Chronicle
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Reziuan Mirzov yet — 7.93
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Vyacheslav Karavaev is a medical away from Ural
The deal with Zenit is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nikita Iosifov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Iosifov and Ural agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ural
Reziuan Mirzov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilja Ishkov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lev Solovyov steps up from the Ural academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lev Solovyov 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
Ural promote Dmitri Tokarev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dmitri Tokarev 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: Anton Suslov joins the Ural first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Suslov 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
Ural promote Kirill Pavlov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kirill Pavlov 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.
In brief
- Match Ural find a way past Neftekhimik
- Squad The formation has left Nikita Iosifov behind
- The dugout A satisfied Semyon Martynov