Ural Yekaterinburg is a Russian professional

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. The team was formed in 1930 and was restored in 2006, having previously played under the names of Uralmash, SKA-Ural, EvrAz and Ural-UPi. The team won the

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titles in 2012, 2013 and in 2022.

History

The team was founded in 1930 as ''Uralmash Sverdlovsk''. In 2001 the club was refunded with the name ''

EvrAz EVRAZ plc (russian: Евраз) is a UK-incorporated multinational steel manufacturing and mining company part-owned by Russian oligarchs. It has operations mainly in Russia as well as the USA, Canada, and Kazakhstan. As of 2015, the ultimate be ...

''. In the 2005–06 season, EvrAz disappeared, but in 2006 the club was refunded once again. Ural became the new main sponsor and the club was renamed ''Ural-UPi''. A year later the name became ''Ural Yekaterinburg''. In 2012 and 2013, Ural won the

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, the second Russian division but didn't promote. In the 2013–14 season Ural played in a European competition for the first time: in the

EuroChallenge FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

it reached the quarterfinals.

Trophies

(3): :2011–12, 2012–13, 2021-22

Season by season

Players

FIBA Hall of Famers

Notable players

Stanislav Yeryomin Stanislav Georgiyevich Yeryomin (russian: Станислав Георгиевич Ерёмин; born February 26, 1951 in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union), last name also spelled Eremin and Yeremin, is a prominent retired Russian professional bask ...

* Sergei Belov * Ivan Dvorny *

Anatoly Myshkin Anatoly Dmitriyevich Myshkin (born August 14, 1954) is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player and coach. At 6 feet 9 inches (2.07 m) tall, and a weight of 210 lbs. (95 kg), he played as a combo forward (small forwar ...

Javonte Douglas Javonte Edwin Douglas (born November 28, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for Uralmash Yekaterinburg of the Russian Super League 1. He played four years of college basketball at four different colleges before playing professi ...

References

External links

Official Website

Team profile at russiabasket.ru
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