Start Nizhny Novgorod

Yury Fokin, legendary coach

Alexey Dyakov

Vyacheslav Ryabov

The club was founded in 1932 and is the oldest sports club in Nizhny Novgorod.[1] The current name is from the 1960/61 season. In the period from 1951 to 1964, as well as in the 1970/71 season, he played in the zonal and final (1958, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1971) tournaments of the RSFSR championships. Since the 1964/65 season, he has been a regular participant in the USSR Championships (with the exception of the 1970/71 season). In the second group of class "A" of the USSR championship - 1964-1967, 1969/70, 1971-1973. In the first league of the championship of the USSR - 1974/75. In the years 1967-1969 and in the 1973/74 season, he appeared in the first group of class "A". In the 1967/68 season, he played in the top league of the USSR Championship. In the 1975/76 season, he returned to the elite division, where he is still playing.

In the summer of 1965 there was a change of coach in the team. Georgy Sergeyevich Shtyrov went to work at the Lokomotiv Junior Sports School for football. "Start" was headed by his player, master of sports Yury Yefimovich Fokin, who a year before had arrived in Gorky from Alma-Ata. The arrival of the new coach, who had the experience of playing in the class of the strongest, as well as special education and enormous organizational skills, gave a new impetus to the development of the team. All the highest achievements of the team in the Russian (Soviet) bandy elite are directly connected with the name of the Honored Coach of the USSR and Russia Yury Fokin. It was under his leadership that "Start" won silver medals three times (in 1980, 1995 and 2002), three times (in 1996, 1998 and 2000) bronze medals and once the USSR Cup (in 1983). During Soviet times, Yury Fokin worked as the second coach in the national team of the country, and in the 2004 season - as the head coach of the Russian national team.[2]

Since the 1960/61 season, the team has found its current name - “Start”. According to the memoirs of the players of the team, it was established that one of its authors is the chairman of the council of the DSO Zenit of those years and just a passionate fan - Boris Tsivtsin. In addition, one season before the team was called "Trud".

Over the years, the game "Start" in the big leagues played a lot of famous masters. These are Yury Gavrilov (three-time world champion), Alexandr Rychagov (two-time world champion, two-time silver medalist, bronze medalist), Vyacheslav Ryabov (the same achievements as Rychagov's, only, naturally, in different years), Oleg Chubinsky (two-time world champion, once - silver and bronze medalist, Alexey Dyakov (two-time world champion, silver medalist), Yuri Loginov (one set of "gold" and "silver", four - "bronze"), Alexandr Yevtin (silver and bronze medalist ), Yevgeny Goryachev (silver medalist), Andrey Begunov (silver medalist), Vladislav Novozhilov (two-time bronze medalist).

From the 2007/08 season for seven seasons, Start was headed by his former player, two-time world champion Alexey Dyakov. One of the best scorers in the history of Nizhny Novgorod bandy 16 seasons spent in Sweden, received citizenship there. His brilliant game for the clubs Nässjö and Motala made Dyakov widely known not only in Russia, but also in Scandinavia.

Since the 2014/15 season, the coaching staff has changed in the team. Eduard Saxonov, who previously worked with Start-2, became the head coach. His teammates of the 1990s - the beginning of the 2000s Vyacheslav Ryabov and Yury Loginov helped him. Chairman of the Board - Yury Yerofeyev. And from the middle of the 2015/16 season, Igor Chilikin was the head coach of Start. In that season, the team took the highest place in its “newest” history - the 7th.[3]

In the middle of the 2016/17 season, there was a change of head coach again - they became MSMK and world championship silver medalist Andrey Begunov. Since the 2017/18 season, Vyacheslav Ryabov has been working as the sports director of the club, and since the summer of 2016 he has been the president of FHSMNO.

In the middle of the 2017/18 season, the head coach of Start was again taken over by Aleksey Grigoryevich Dyakov, who returned from Dynamo Moscow, and Eduard Saxonov became his assistant.[4]

In the season 2018/19, they beat the reigning champion of Sweden - Edsbyn and sensationally defeated the Krasnoyarsk “Yenisei” in the quarter-finals - 0: 4 Nizhny Novgorod “Start” for the first time in its history reached the World Cup semifinal.[5]

Gorky "Start" with the USSR Cup in 1983. From left to right: they stand - Veretenov, Gavrilov, Pugachev, Smooth, Korovin, Saleev, Maksimenko, Dyakov, Goryachev, Krygin, Medvedsky, Fokin, Kolbinov; Sit - Lokushin, Osipov, Shesterov, Domnenkov, Kadyshev, Levers, Okulov, Ionov.

"Start" champion of the RSFSR in 1964. From left to right: stand - Nikishin, Andrianov, Rybakov, Firstanstan, Makhalov, Baskakov, Sytin, E. Panteleev, Shtyrov; sit - Shesterov, A. Panteleev, Krutov, Mineev, Kuznetsov, Burlakov.

World Cup

• Third place in the World Cup 2018/19

Russian/USSR Cup

• Winner USSR Cup 1982/83
• Finalist USSR Cup 1985/86
• Finalist Russian Cup 1997/98

Russian/USSR Super League

• Silver medalist Russian Super League 1994/95, 2001/02
• Silver medalist USSR Super League 1979/80
• Bronze medalist Russian Super League 1995/96, 1997/98, 1999/2000

Championship of the RSFSR

• Champion of the RSFSR 1963/64
• Silver medalist RSFSR 1962/63
• Bronze medalist RSFSR 1960/61

First league championship of the USSR

• Winner of the I League Championship of the USSR 1975

USSR Championship Class A II Group

• Silver medalist of the USSR championship class A II group 1964

Volga-Sport-Arena Cup

• Winner of the Volga-Sport-Arena Cup 2015

Falun Cup

• Winner of Falun Cup 2008

Cup of the Head of the Republic of Komi

• Winner of the Cup of the Head of the Republic of Komi 1998, 2001

Porvoo Borgå 650 Bandy Cup

• Winner of the Porvoo Borgå 650 Bandy Cup 1996[6]

Sergey Maximenko in attack

Sergey Maximenko, the top scorer in Nizhny Novgorod bandy, scored 387 goals for “Start” only in the national championships, before leaving to play in Finland.

• Defender Alexandr Rychagov in the 1985 World Cup final scored the winning goal against the Swedes.
• Vyacheslav Ryabov was named the best goalkeeper of the 2001 World Cup and was included in the symbolic team of the 1999 World Cup.
• Yuri Gavrilov - the first world champion in the "Start" - won this honorary title, while still being a first league player.
• Yuri Loginov, having become the World Champion of 1999 as a member of the Russian national team, in 2003, already in the national team of Kazakhstan, won the bronze medal. And the captain of this team was another Start player - Vladislav Novozhilov. Then they have achieved significant achievements with the national team of Kazakhstan.
• In 2012, four Start players at once became bronze medalists of the World Championship in the national team of Kazakhstan - Leonid Bedarev, Denis Maximenko, Rauan Isaliyev, Ruslan Galyautdinov. Denis Maximenko and Leonid Bedarev later became four-time winners of bronze medals at the World Cup, and Ruslan Galyautdinov - three-time. Rauan Isaliyev joined Sibselmash in Novosibirsk and also plays for his national team.

• Head coach - Alexey Dyakov
• Coach - Eduard Saxonov
• Consulting Coach - Yury Gavrilov
• Physical training coach - Yevgeny Alyoshev

Nizhny Novgorod "Start" of the season 2018-2019

#	Position	Last name, first name	Rank	Citizenship	Date of Birth
1	goalkeeper	Maxim Bolotov	kms	Russia	14.01.1995
97	goalkeeper	Yuri Ivanchikov	kms	Russia	22.08.1997
98	goalkeeper	Dmitry Shkilev	kms	Russia	22.09.1998
2	defender	Denis Maximenko	msmk	Russia,  Kazakhstan	15.10.1983
13	defender	Vadim Vasilyev	ms	Russia	11.08.1993
15	defender	Anatoly Golubkov	zms	Russia,  Kazakhstan	01.12.1988
28	defender	Maxim Logoshin	kms	Russia	01.09.1999
77	defender	Andrey Osipenkov	kms	Russia	17.05.1994
10	midfielder	Sergey Katugin	ms	Russia	13.08.1987
17	midfielder	Yegor Dashkov	ms	Russia	23.10.1997
19	midfielder	Dmitry Savelyev	zms	Russia	22.02.1979
23	midfielder	Alexey Bushuev	msmk	Russia	11.04.1985
25	midfielder	Nikita Kochetov	kms	Russia	22.02.2000
35	midfielder	Roman Ledyankin	kms	Russia	25.10.2000
51	midfielder	Maxim Gavrilenko	ms	Russia,  Kazakhstan	20.08.1981
86	midfielder	Vitaly Usov	kms	Russia	10.10.1996
12	central midfielder	Denis Kotkov	ms	Russia	22.07.1984
14	central midfielder	Evgeny Korev	ms	Russia	05.07.1986
18	central midfielder	Alexey Kiselev	kms	Russia	29.08.1988
70	central midfielder	Evgeny Neronov	kms	Russia	05.03.1998
4	attack	Patrick Johansson	—	Sweden	19.09.1988
9	attack	Stanislav Ismagilov	ms	Russia	25.01.1985
71	attack	Alexander Stepanov	ms	Russia	17.08.1998

* composition of the team on 10/14/2018

Trud Stadium

• The Trud Stadium is geographically located in the Sormovsky District. The stadium seats just over 20,000 spectators. It is a site with artificial ice with an area of more than 14,000 square meters. It has a speed skating track of international standard, 400 meters long. The field dimensions are 105 x 65 m.[7]
• Stadium "Start" is geographically located in the Moscow district. The stadium seats 6200 spectators. It is a platform with natural ice and a field size of 105 x 65 m.[8]
• The pre-season preparation of the Start team players is carried out in the Nizhny Novgorod sports complex “Yunost'”, and they also use the sports complex “Krasnaya Gorka” and the Sports Center “Borsky” in the city of Bor.[9]

Club colors

Club colors —   red,   blue,   white.

Emblem and logo

Logo bandy club "Start"

Emblem bandy club "Start"

Anniversary logo bandy club "Start"

In addition to the existing emblem, the club logo was created in the season 2015/2016. In the 2017/2018 season, a jubilee logo dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the club was used.

Mascot

Club mascot - “Startenok”, funny boy, young bandy player.[10]

Anthem

In 2015, the club's anthem was written. The author of music and words - Boryaev Ilya. Also, the unofficial song of the fans, often performed at matches, is «Sormovsky lyric»

Start's second team Start-2 plays in the Russian Bandy Supreme League, the second tier of Russian bandy.[11]

• Official website (in Russian)