The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
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 ratings12 Oct 2026
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 ratings12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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
- Market Still no ink between Spartak Kostroma and Nikita Supranovich
- Squad Sergey Yeschenko falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad David Kobesov scores his first for Spartak Kostroma