The Rubin Yalta Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Victor Okishor
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rubin Yalta have done the hard part with Dinamo Moscow, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Vadim Churilov will not be coming to Rubin Yalta
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Torpedo Moscow is saying, and nobody at Rubin Yalta is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Ageev signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Ageev and Rubin Yalta agree another 2 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Danil Polyakh was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Strogino tell Rubin Yalta: Sergey Guzyuk 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Rubin Yalta
Danil Polyakh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Danila Preobrazhensky joins the Rubin Yalta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danila Preobrazhensky 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
One of our own: Pyotr Gusev joins the Rubin Yalta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pyotr Gusev 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
Yefim Pugachev steps up from the Rubin Yalta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yefim Pugachev 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
- Market Rubin Yalta promote Timur Zorin from within
- Squad Alexandr Ageev is a square peg at Rubin Yalta
- Squad Rubin Yalta are still strangers to each other