Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk
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Yenisey-STM is a Russia
Russia
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n rugby
Rugby football
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 club founded in 1975. It is one of the two powerful Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

 clubs, the other being their cross town rivals Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk
Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk
Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk is a Russian rugby club founded in 1969 in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the unofficial capital of Russian rugby. They compete in the Professional Rugby League, the premier league in the country. They have an operating budget of 2.5m Euros, making them one of the biggest clubs in...

. They participate in the Professional Rugby League
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, the premier rugby championship of Russia
Russia
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. With an operating budget of €3.5m they are the second largest club in Russia after VVA-Podmoskovye Monino
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino
The VVA-Podmoskovje is a Russian rugby union team currently playing in the Professional Rugby League. The team plays at Gagarin Air Force Academy stadium in Monino, a garrison town just outside Moscow. VVA-Podmoskovye have strong links to the air force and also supply the bulk of Russia, with which...

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History

The club was founded in 1975 as Trud Krasnoyarsk , but in 1978 was renamed Sibtjaschmasch Krasnoyarsk . It took its current name on 12 April 2000. In the 2008 season the team finished in third place in the Russian championship.

Championships

  • Superleague Championships : 1999, 2002, 2005, 2011
  • Runners up: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007
  • Russian Cup winner: 2000, 2001, 2008

Current squad

International honours

Rati Urushadze Vitaly Orlov Dimitru Arhip Victor Arhip Eduard Toderica Anton Rudoy Maxim Lifontov
Maxim Lifontov
Maxim Lifontov is a Kazakh rugby union player. He plays as a fullback.He currently plays for the Russian professional team of Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk....

 Uldis Sautile Jurijs Baranovs Evgeniy Pronenko Sergey Novoselov Vladimir Botvinnikov Roman Romak Valery Fedchenko Vyacheslav Zykov Andreï Temnov Nikita Medkov Alexey Scherban Sergey Kuzmenko Alexei Korobenikov Igor Kurashov Pavel Novikov Dimitri Gerasimov Valery Ignatiev Yaroslav Rechnev Vladimir Ostrouchko Petr Botnarash (in Rugby league
Rugby league
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2011 signings

Sergei Sels'kij from Slava Moscow
Slava Moscow
Slava Moscow is a Russian rugby union club from Moscow. They participate in the Professional Rugby League, the premier rugby competition of Russia. The club is one of the strongest in the country though they struggle to compete against the more professional outfits from Krasnoyarsk and their near...

 Victor Arhip from Farul Constanta
Farul Constanţa (rugby)
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 Vladimir Ostrouchko from Yug Krasnodar (7's) Stanislav Bondarev from Yug Krasnodar (7's) Petr Botnarash from RC Lokomotiv Moscow
RC Lokomotiv Moscow
RC Lokomotiv Moscow is a professional Russian rugby football club based in Moscow, which from 2010 will field teams in both rugby league and rugby union. The club is one of the oldest in Russia. Originally a club for those who worked on the railways, they participated in the first USSR rugby union...

 (Rugby League
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

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