Start () is a professional
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
club from
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...
, Russia, established in 1932. It plays in the
Russian Bandy Super League
The Russian Bandy Super League (russian: Чемпионат России по хоккею с мячом — Суперлига), is a men's professional bandy league in Russia, the top division of Russian bandy.
There is no definite rule which ...
, the top division of Russian bandy.
Start was founded in 1932 as a team called Novoye Sormovo. The name was changed to Zenit (Zenith) in 1936, Trud (Labor) in 1959 and ultimately Start Gorky in 1960. When the city of Gorky changed its names to Nizhny Novgorod in 1990, the club changed names accordingly. It played in the elite division of the Soviet bandy championship in 1967–1969, the 1973–74 season and permanently since the 1975–76 season.
History
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The club was founded in 1932 and is the oldest sports club in Nizhny Novgorod. 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.
Since the 1960/61 season, the team has found its current name – "Start". From the 2007/08 season for seven seasons, Start was headed by his former player, Alexey Dyakov.
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.
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.
In the season 2018/19, they beat the reigning champion of Sweden –
Edsbyn
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Edsbyn is most famous for its former ski and nowadays office furn ...
and also 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.
Progress
World Cup
* Third place in the
World Cup
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2018/19
Russian/USSR Cup
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![Gold medal with cup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Gold_medal_with_cup.svg)
Winner
USSR Cup
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1982/83
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![Silver medal with cup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Silver_medal_with_cup.svg)
Finalist
USSR Cup
The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS (Moldova ...
1985/86
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![Silver medal with cup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Silver_medal_with_cup.svg)
Finalist
Russian Cup 1997/98
Russian/USSR Super League
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![Silver medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg)
Silver medalist
Russian Super League
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1994/95, 2001/02
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![Silver medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg)
Silver medalist
USSR Super League 1979/80
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![Bronze medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg)
Bronze medalist
Russian Super League
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1995/96, 1997/98, 1999/2000
Championship of the RSFSR
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![Gold medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg)
Champion of the
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
1963/64
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![Silver medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg)
Silver medalist
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
1962/63
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![Bronze medal icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg)
Bronze medalist
RSFSR
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1960/61
Porvoo Borgå 650 Bandy Cup
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![Gold medal with cup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Gold_medal_with_cup.svg)
Winner of the Porvoo Borgå 650 Bandy Cup 1996
Top scorer
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.
Line-up
* composition of the team on 10/14/2018
Club infrastructure
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
Club attributes
Club colors
Club colors — red, blue, white.
Emblem and logo
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.
Start-2
Start's second team Start-2 plays in the
Russian Bandy Supreme League
Russian Bandy Supreme League (russian: Первенство России среди команд Высшей лиги) is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League. In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three gro ...
, the second tier of Russian bandy.
References
External links
Official website
{{Russian Bandy Super League
Bandy clubs in Russia
Bandy clubs in the Soviet Union
Sport in Nizhny Novgorod
Bandy clubs established in 1932
1932 establishments in Russia