Stepan Belov

Goalkeeper - Spartak Kostroma U21
11 Dec 2026
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Process

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The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Spartak Kostroma

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma

Amur Kalmykov 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.

Match

Amur Kalmykov sends Spartak Kostroma past Chaika

It finished 2‑0, and it was Amur Kalmykov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Spartak Kostroma.

Market

Spartak Kostroma promote Stepan Belov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stepan Belov 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.

Market

Gavriil Kozhemyakin steps up from the Spartak Kostroma academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gavriil Kozhemyakin 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Amur Kalmykov at his very best

Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Spartak Kostroma.

Player ratings

Yegor Ushakov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Vyacheslav Dorokhov kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Spartak Kostroma

Something was said to Yegor Ushakov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief