Zarja Kaspija Astrakhan, also known as Dinamo Astrakhan, is a Russian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

team located in Astrakhan. Their home matches are played at the Sports Complex Star. They compete in the

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. In reaction to the

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, the International Handball Federation banned Russian athletes, and the

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suspended the Russian clubs from competing in European handball competitions.

Accomplishments

*Sovietic Liga: **Winners (1) : 1990 *

: **Runners Up (8) : 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 * EHF Champions League: **Semifinalist (1) : 1991 *

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: **Runner-Up (1) : 2003

European record

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2022–23 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 32 Andrei Vereshchagin * 97 Ihar Chernikau ; Left Wingers *2 Albert Gumarov * 24 Mikhail Sharkov ; Right Wingers * 17 Rufat Mukhtarov * 31 Andrei Gordeev ;Line players * 77 Alexei Chirkov * 95 Vasily Nakonechny ; Left Back * 23 Arseniy Ukhvarkin * 88 Maxim Vasiliev ;Centre Back: *9 Dmitrii Kantemirov * 34 Dmitrii Shelestyukov ;Right Back: * 14 Valerii Verein * 55 Leonid Kutepov

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.zarya-kaspiya.ru/ Sport in Astrakhan Handball clubs in Russia