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» | |
|---|---|
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| 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 | Alexey Chechin[1] |
| Head coach | Mikhail Zvyagin[2] |
| Captain | Ilya Bochkov[3] |
| Affiliates | 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
Stadium
- Paryshev Sports Palace
Capacity: 2500
Team Colors
| Blue | White |
Front Office and Coaches
Director
- Viktor Prozorov
General manager
- Alexey Chechin
Head coach
- Mikhail Zvyagin
Assistant coach
- Rashit Galimzhanov
- Vyacheslav Sedov
Roster
| No. | 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)