The Leningradets Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Iljas Muminov is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Torpedo Vladimir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leningradets is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leningradets
Alexey Kuznetsov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
Maxim Bachinskiy’s goal not enough for Leningradets
Maxim Bachinskiy scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Volgar, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mark Plotnikov joins the Leningradets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mark Plotnikov 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 Gordeev steps up from the Leningradets academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yefim Gordeev 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
One of our own: Vladislav Chkalov joins the Leningradets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vladislav Chkalov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Anatoliy Makarov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anatoliy Makarov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Daniil Rodin ran the middle of the pitch — 6.68
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.68, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Tikhon Andreev faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tikhon Andreev after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Danila Yemeljanov's mistake
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Sergey Nikolaev
- Player ratings A day to forget for Danila Yemeljanov