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.

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

Front Office and Coaches

Director

• Viktor Prozorov

General manager

• Alexey Chechin

Head coach

• Mikhail Zvyagin

Assistant coach

• Rashit Galimzhanov
• Vyacheslav Sedov

Roster

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)

References

External links

• Official site

1. Evgeny Solovyov
2. Supreme Hockey League
3. Alexander Fomichev
4. Yunior Kurgan
5. Metallurg Magnitogorsk
6. Konstantin Chaschukhin
7. Alexander Sazonov
8. Vyacheslav Belov (ice hockey)
9. Vladimir Malinovsky
10. Artyom Garifulin
11. Vladimir Markelov (ice hockey)
12. Stepan Sannikov
13. Kirill Sidorenko
14. Alexei Bondarev
15. Konstantin Alexeyev
16. Dennis Sergeyev
17. Yuri Klyuchnikov (ice hockey)
18. Yuri Koksharov
19. Nikolai Demidov (ice hockey)
20. Sergei Sentyurin