Krasnoyarsk Basketball Chronicle Story of Basketball Club Enisey

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 02:18

Foundation and development of basketball in Krasnoyarsk in closely associated with Vasily Vasilievich Repita, Honored Coach of Russia. His young trainees were the first in Krasnoyarsk history to win the regional competition. Vasiliy Repita graduated from Krasnoyarsk college of physical education, where he started mastering basketball under supervision of coaches of that institution, Valentin Ivanovich Telyatnikov and Karl Ivanovich Lener. Repita found the game so exciting, that he devoted the rest of his life to it.
In 1956 in pubic city school #46, where Vasily Repita worked as physical education teacher he started basketball team. We shall pay special attention to few of his first trainees, Grigory Abramovich, Vladimir Talanov and Viktor Zuev. It’s worth taking notice of Eduard Guschin, also playing in that team, later to become bronze Olympic champion in shot put. Repita finds 1946 graduates, mentioned above one of his best achievements as they won Russian regional cup and were 12th out of 16 in the finals. Especially notable were Evgeniy Kulikov, Vladimir Popov and Vladimir Brovkin (he used to coach team “Medik”, which later was the grounds for women’s team “Shelen”). Specialists find that generation of players was the beginning of Krasnoyarsk school of basketball…
Players born in 1947 made a considerable step forward and took the fourth place in Russian Championship. Main stars of city’s team of those days were Yuri Nevkin, Vladimir Krasnov, Alexander Klubov, Vladimir Astashkin. Few age groups of young basketball players fought for medals of Russian Сhampionship, but only boys born in 1951 under Vasily Repita were able to take the 3rd place in the final tournament in Cheboksary. We just cannot forger that remarkable game of beginners in professional basketball Gennady Ladanov, Sergey Maslennikov, Sergey Padar, Gennady Kazantsev and Vladimir Smeliy! Next year the same players representing Krasnoyarsk in the finals of similar championship in Stavropol took 2nd place having lost only ten points to Moscow team in the crunch game. Until 2006 that was the best result for Krasnoyarsk junior team. In 2006 Valeriy Pavlovsky’s trainees won the final game of Russian Junior Players Basketball Association.
The years following that great achievement of Krasnoyarsk junior team brought real sport stars to Krasnoyarsk basketball which afterwards shone on the skies of world sports. One of the boys born in 1962 happens to be silver prize-winner of the World Championship in Toronto Sergey Ivanov. Also Sergey Tarakanov, Olympic (1988) and European Champion joined the team of boys born in 1958. It is also worth remembering the silver prize-winner of USSR Junior League Igor Sologub and players, who started their career in sports in our territory, the winner of Europe Junior Champioship Alexander Meleshkin and member of National Youth Team of USSR Sergey Khlebopashnikov… Unfortunately all those players reached their mastership far from home.

We should also add that the following players played in clubs of highest division of the country: Pavel Vasiliev and Evgeniy Razumov (Leningrad team), Alexander Sundukov (Chelabinsk “Dinamo”) Alexander Slobodchikov (“Shahter” from Cheremhovo), Evgeniy Kurilov (“Lokomotiv” from Minvody and “Ural-Great” from Perm) and others.
It is usually taken that the grounds for modern club “Enisey” was the team established in Krasnoyarsk polytechnic institute. The first coach was Yuri Alexandrovich Nevkin. Please keep in mind, that the first steps in national basketball were made by Krasnoyarsk team back in 1952, when they took part in national second division championship. Back in those days college teams played as city’s team. In national second league Krasnoyarsk was represented by “Medik” and “Nauka”. We must confess they were not successful and set in the bottom of the draw.
New age of regional basketball came with the new club “Politekhnik”. Sergey Ivanov, Vadim Vashko, Igor Subbotin, Oleg and Andrei Nuzhdovi were making the game of the club. Since 1978 Viktor Denisovich Kurilov was managing the team. With him team made a huge leap forward. Since 1982 “Politekhnik” was playing in the Cup games of USSR for teams of Siberia and Russian Far East. In 1984 Krasnoyarsk team had shown good results in qualifying round and won a chance to play in final games for advancing to the first division. They did not make it from the first time, but the next year they were without a rival. In the first division Krasnoyarsk always looked bright and always won prizes. In 1986 the current director of the club Vladimir Petrokovsky joined it. The club reached the first real success in 1988. In Nerungri “Politekhnik” won the finals of Cup of USSR for Teams of Siberia and Russian Far East. For this major victory the following players were awarded the title of Master of Sports: Lyahov, Vashko, Nechepurenko, Petrokovsky, Siluyanov, Sundukov, Tarasenkov, Fyodorov, Oldakovskiy, Subbotin, Bukarev, Rudenko, Mokraguzov, Ponomarev, Varygin.
Krasnoyarsk Basketball had a new impetus when the men basketball team was officially registered as a team of “Krastiajmash” plant and was renamed after it. But the prosperity was not the only way to move up in the national leagues, it was not enough, club also needed new high-class participants. That is why in the autumn of 1989 Valery Chernishev from Frunze “Dinamo” was invited to the team. The management of the team had set a goal to reach the top results so in the end of 1990 season “Krastiajmash” won its right to compete in the first league of USSR. And in the next season Krasnoyarsk team looked unexpectedly well in the new level of competition. After the fist round they were 8 points ahead of their persecutor. They were the main candidate for the top league of the USSR, but… the political events of 1990th ruined the bright prospects the team had.
1991/1992 season of CIS Open Championship was not brought to its end. It was substituted by Russian national first league championship in which our team took the fourth place and won its right to play in B division of higher league. The next year the club which was called “Eskavo” in those days was just one step from moving to A division but in the end of the season it was overtaken by Cheremhovo’s “Shakhter”.

From the fall of 1993 Krasnoyarsk is represented in the national championship by “Enisey”. In 1993/1994 season players from the banks of the great Siberian river played their first games abroad. They went to Mexico where they played in the international tournament against Cuba’s National Team, Mexican Junior Team and one of American teams. They made it the third in that tournament and after that they had a tour around the USA. This trip came out to be useful for the team and in the 1994/1995 season they made it the fourth in the league.
In the season of 1995/1996, when the Superleague was established in Russia, “Enisey” started in A division of the second league. So before the beginning of the championship “Enisey” went abroad again. This time it was Austria. Krasnoyarsk played against teams from the States as well as Austrian National Team and Austrian Youth National Team. In that tournament Krasnoyarsk team took the second place. On the preliminary national championship Krasnoyarsk was the second and was one of four teams to fight for the right to play in the national Superleague. But in the final games, held in Kazan Siberian team did not perform well.
Before the beginning of the season 1996/1997 “Enisey” went to the the international tournament again, this time they went south-east, to China. They played against Chinese and Korean teams. Krasnoyarsk played 11 games. And again the team had no rivals. They won all the games and were the first. In that season they were the fourth again. In the next season according to the federation regulations “Enisey” was supposed to play in the second league, but Russian basketball federation made the decision to extend the league and the team got its chance to take part in “east zone” of Superleague.
Below you can see the “Enisey’s” results in national championships and cups:

1993/1994 – 2nd place in the second league “B” of the National Championship (head coach Alexander Sundukov);

1994/1995 – 4th place in the second league “B” of the National Championship (head coach Alexander Sundukov);

1995/1996 – 2nd place in the second league “A” of the National Championship (head coach Sergey Ivanov)

1996/1997 – 4th place in the second league “A” of the National Championship (head coach Viktor Kuriolov);

1997/1998 – début in the Superleague, 7th place in eastern group and 17th place in the National Championship (head coach Viktor Kurilov);

1998/1999 – 5th place in eastern group and 9th place in east-west group and 13th place in the Superleague (head coach Viktor Kurilov);

1999/2000 – 6th place in eastern zone and 7th place of group «В» in the Superleague, 3rd place in group “E” and 15th place in the league (head coach Sergey Ivanov);

2000/2001 – 21st place in general game classification of the Superleague (head coach Sergey Ivanov);

2001/2002 – 5th place in division “B” and 15th place in the final classification of the Superleague (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky);

2002/2003 – 4th place in the Superleague “B” and general 14th place (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky)

2003/2004 – 5th place in the Superleague “B” (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky), first time on 23rd of February 2004 in 1/8 final in the National Cup “Enisey” played with the leader of national basketball CSKA;

2004/2005 – 2nd place in the Superleague “B” (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky), in the National Cup “Enisey” made it to 1/4 final where they had given way to the Superleague “A” team “Unix” from Kazan;

2005/2006 – 2nd place in the Superleague “B” (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky) and 1/8 final in the National Cup where they lost to “Dinamo” from Moscow;

2006/2007 – winner of the Superleague “B” (head coach Vladimir Petrokovsky second coach Pavel Dergachev, players Denis Davidov, Sergey Chudinovskih, Dmitriy Ivanov, Evgeny Korshunov, Dmitry Shishlov, Andrei Fabrichnov, Pavel Krykov, Denis Belyayev, Aleksandr Anisimov, Vladislav Solovyov, Pavel Zakamov, Dmitry Dogadin, Evgeny Kurilov), in the National Cup they reached 1/4 final, having lost to “Lokomotiv-Rostov” from Rostov-on-Don.
After “Enisey’s” victory in the Superleague “B” Vladimir Petrokovsky was invited as a member of coach crew of Russian National Students Basketball Team to take part in XXIV World Student Games in Bangkok in August 2007. He was assistant coach of national team to Sergey Elevich. Unfortunately Russian men team made it only to 1/4 final and left the championship on the 6th place. Pavel Krykov was called for the practices to the team’s camp but he was not included into official list of players for the game.
In the début season in the Superleague “A” Krasnoyarsk club hired foreigners for the first time. First foreigners were Zendon Hamilton (USA), Frederick Warrick (USA) and Igor Milichich (Croatia/Poland). In the middle of the season Milichich had to leave “Enisey” and Stephan Nikolich young Serbian playmaker came to replace him. Our team finished the season of Russian regular championship Superleague “A” on the 13th place after 3 wins and 21 losses. Playing for 9-13th places “Enisey” won four more times and improved their results in the Championship. The goal was to take at least pre-last (12th) place and it was successfully achieved. Due to the fact that it was début in the elite of Russian basketball, the decision was being made to pay more attention to the Superleague “A” of Russian Championship and to sacrifice participation in Russian Cup. “Enisey” stopped in 1/8 final after its double lost to “Dinamo-Teplosroi” in Chelabinsk (30th of September, 44:94)

2007/2008 – 12th place in the National Championship. Head coach: Vladimir Petrokovsky. Players: centers – Zendon Hamilton, Denis Belyayev (captain), Pavel Krykov, forwards – Dmitry Dogadin, Alexander Krylov, Alexey Kuznetsov (joined the team in January 2008), Pavel Zakamov, Dmitry Ivanov, Vladislav Solovyov, guards – Sergey Chudinovskih, Alexander Anisimov, Frederick Warrick, Evgeny Kurilov, Igor Milichich (left the team the end on 2007), Stephan Nikolich (since January 2008), Andrei Fabrichnov.
After hard season in elite of Russian basketball, next year’s goal seemed almost impracticable at that moment. Russian Basketball Federation decided to leave only 10 teams out of 12 in the Superleague “A” after the season 2008/2009. Consequently to stay in the main league of the country (this goal was set by the fonder) Krasnoyarsk team had to make it at least 9th or, to put it in a different way, to improve their result by three positions.
In order to achieve this goal changes in personnel had to take place. The main change was Vladimir Petrokovsky’s leaving the position of head coach. In summer 2008 Vladimir remained in position of the director of the club only. He had been working as coach and director since 2001. So he had to look for a new head coach. In the same time he was offered a job of assistant coach to Sergey Elevich to coach national team. This time Petrokovsky worked with second Men National Team, for pre-Olympics tournament in Hanchzou, China.
In August the director finally chose Lithuanian coach Algirdas Brazis. So together with the new head coach they put the new team. More that a half of the team remained from the previous season: Denis Belyaev, Pavel Krykov, Dmitry Dogadin, Pavel Zakamov, Sergey Chudinovskih, Alexander Anisimov, Frederick Warrick, Evgeny Kurilov. Vladislav Solovyov moved to the youth team, which had by the way new tournament: Youth Championship for Superleague “A” clubs’ teams.
By the beginning of the season the club signed six more players, Russian: Dmitry Nikolaev, Aleksey Savkov, Stanislav Makshantsev, American: Curtis Millage and Kevin Fletcher (with European passport), Serbian Nenad Pishtolevich. One position remained vacant, and club management stated that they plan to improve Center Position. In the same time “Enisey” had good pre-season games in Croatia. Two episodes were especialy remarkable: Krasnoyarsk won friendly game with Croatian champion, which plays in Euroleague “Cibona” and won international tournament Kvarner Cup, which took place in Rieka. That championship included the hosts “Kvarner”, “Slovan” (Slovenia) and “Grats” (Austria). At the same time the official season “Enisey” started with loss in 1/8 final in Russian Cup, when the team underestimated their opponents and lost in Chelabinsk to “Dinamo-Teplostroi”, Superleague “B” team. Nevertheless to many people’s surprise and despite of the strong opponents in the beginning of the championship the first victory happened rather soon. In the first month Krasnoyarsk won very hard game against “Triumph” from Lubertsi. In the last second Alexander Anisimov, who only entered the game 8 seconds before its end, made a three-point-shot and guaranteed teams victory by one point 77:76.
In December 2008 “Enisey” finally improved the team, which was a surprise not only to Russian but also to European basketball community. Club signed a contract with Latvian player Kaspars Kambala, who was considered to be one of the best centers in Europe, his two-year disqualification was over in the middle of December. While he was disqualified he had a chance to try himself as professional boxer.

In January 2009 Krasnoyarsk team made a real breakthrough by four very important wins. Twice (at home and away) they won “Ural-Great” from Perm and that was “Enisey’s” ticket to play-offs. Right, the play-offs, eight best teams! Looking at this success the current goal was automatically corrected, and “Enisey” fulfilled its task with perfection!
First time in its history team made it to play-offs of Russian National Championship. The team was on 8th place with 8 wins in 22 games. In the first round, 1/4 final, “Enisey” played twice against CSKA and both time they lost, 45:88 in Moscow and 70:97 in Krasnoyarsk. In the next round “Enisey” played against “Triumph” Moscow territory. First game they won 83:70, second one Krasnoyarsk won 88:70 and the last game of that round Siberian team lost with sad score 60:90. Afterwards in the game for 7th place Krasnoyarsk met “Lokomotiv-Rostov”. In the first game Krasnoyarsk team almost made it with score 72:77 and in the last game of that season Rostov was a little stronger again, 61:68.

2008/2009 – 8th place in the National Championship. Head coach: Algirdas Brasis, team: centers – Denis Belyaev (captain), Kaspars Kambala, Pavel Krykov, forwards – Kevin Fletcher, Stanislav Makshantsev, Dmitry Nikolaev, Dmitry Dogadin, Pavel Zakamov, guards – Alexander Anisimov, Frederick Warrick, Evgeny Kurilov, Alexei Savkov, Curtis Millage, Nenad Pishtolyevich, Sergey Chudinovskih.

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Турнирные таблицы

Енисей (Суперлига)

	И	O
ЦСКА	16	31
Химки	16	29
УНИКС	16	25
Динамо	16	24
Локомотив-Кубань	16	24
Триумф	16	23
Красные крылья	16	21
Енисей	16	20
Спартак	16	19

Енисей (Еврочеллендж)

	И	O
Шораль Роанн	6	10
Антверпен Джайентс	6	9
Банвит	6	9
Енисей	6	8

Енисей-2

	И	O
Локомотив-Кубань-2	40	74
Динамо-2	40	72
ЦСКА-2	40	68
Триумф-2	40	66
УНИКС-2	40	66
Химки-2	40	62
Спартак-2	40	60
НГУ	40	53
Енисей-2	40	47
Красные Крылья-2	40	47
Университет-Югра-2	40	45

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