Zauralie Kurgan

Zauralie Kurgan (Хоккейный клуб «Зауралье» Курган) is an ice hockey team in Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.

Zauralie Хоккейный клуб «Зауралье»
City	Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russia
League	VHL
Founded	1962
Home arena	Paryshev Sports Palace (capacity: 2,500)
Colours
Owner(s)	Kurgan Oblast, Kurganstalmost
General manager	Alexander Smagin
Head coach	Alexey Chechin
Captain	Camille Shiafotdinov
Affiliate(s)	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (KHL) Yunior Kurgan (MHL-B)
Website	hczaural.ru

History

The club was founded in 1994 as a merger between clubs Mostovik (Bridge Worker) and Turbinka (Turbine) as Mostovik-Turbinka Kurgan later becoming a farm club of Rubin Tyumen. It got its current name Zauralie (Trans-Ural) since the 2003-04 season. They became affiliated with Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008, Avangard Omsk in 2012 and Metallurg Novokuznetsk in 2014. With the demotion of Novokuznetsk, Kurgan then entered into an agreement to be the primary affiliate to Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the KHL in 2017.

The club have junior farm-club Yunior Kurgan, are played in MHL-B, second level of junior ice hockey league in Russia.

Honors

National

• Vysshaya Liga (RUS-2)
  • Third place (1): 2003/2004
• Pervaya Liga (RUS-3)
  • Champion (1): 2000/2001

Pre-season

• Paryshev Memorial Cup
  • Champion (3): 2009, 2010, 2012
  • Second Place (4): 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016
  • Third Place (1): 2015

Stadium

• Paryshev Sports Palace

Built: 2001 год

Capacity: 2500

Address: microdistr. 1-a, bld. 7

Director: Sergei Paryshev

Team Colors

Blue

White

Front Office and Coaches

Director

• Viktor Prozorov

General manager

• Alexander Smagin

Head Coach

• Mikhail Zvyagin

Assistant Coach

• Rashit Galimzhanov
• Vyacheslav Sedov

Roster

№	Player	Country	Age	Last team
Goaltenders
60	Sergei Ageyev		32	Ariada Volzhsk
72	Ilyas Gafiullin		23	Slavutych Smolensk
Defenders
3	Yevgeni Nesterov		29	Dizel Penza
4	Nikita Krotikov		25	Dizel Penza
5	Alexander Brit		22	Bars Kazan
7	Maxim Semyonov		19	Yunior Kurgan
8	Valeri Zhukov		28	HC Sarov
9	Yevgeni Shakurov		24	THK Tver
30	Yuri Maslov		28	Izhstal Izhevsk
35	Yevgeni Sulimov		23	Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk
76	Alexei Chechin		35	Buran Voronezh
91	Kamil Mingazov		20	Tymensky Legion
Forwards
11	Alexander Remov		22	Khimik Voskresensk
15	Maxim Pervukhin		27	Ermak Angarsk
17	Vyacheslav Mushtayev		31	Izhstal Izhevsk
19	Denis Tsyganov		23	Dizel Penza
23	Vladislav Sokolov		27	HC Sarov
25	Matvei Tymchenko		21	Amurskie Tigry Khabarovsk
34	Artur Abmyotka		24	Neftyanik Almetyevsk
37	Oleg Pridannikov		32	Ermak Angarsk
40	Dmitri Kolgotin		22	Dizel Penza
45	Anton Rekhtin		27	Izhstal Izhevsk
57	Alexander Petrov		23	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
73	Nikita Sirotkin		23	Belye Tigry Orenburg
77	Albert Zagidullin		27	Rubin Tyumen

Head coaches

Sergei Gersonsky (2001-2002)

Mikhail Malko (2002-2006)

Oleg Gushchin (2006-2008)

Igor Zhilinsky (2008-2010)

Vladimir Shikhanov (2010-2013)

Igor Velker (2013)

Sergei Dushkin (2013-2015)

Albert Loginov (2015-2016)

Mikhail Zvyagin (since 2016)

Club Records

Leaders

• Points: Andrei Petrakov — 52 (25+27 in 2002/03).
• Goals: Sergei Brovin — 27 (2002/03).
• Assists: Maxim Chernikov — 34 (2002/03).
• (+/-): Maxim Chernikov — +23 (2002/03).
• Penalty (in minutes): Andrei Korolyov — 91 (2007/08).
• Points by defenders: Alexei Chechin — 31 (12+19 in 2007/08).
• Goals by defenders: Alexei Chechin — 12 (2007/08), Alexander Troitsky — 12 (2007/08).

External links

• Official site