Chekhovskiye Medvedi

This article is about the successor of the original CSKA Moscow Handball Club. For the new club, see HBC CSKA Moscow.

Chekhovskie Medvedi (Russian: Чеховские Медведи, English: Chekhov Bears) is a professional handball club from Chekhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. They compete in the Russian Handball Super League and in the SEHA League. After the launching of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Handball Federation in February 2022 temporarily suspended the team.^[1]

Chekhovskie Medvedi
Full name	Chekhovskie Medvedi Handball Club
Founded	1972 (as CSKA) 2001
Arena	Olimpiysky Sport Palace
Capacity	3,000
Head coach	Vladimir Maksimov
League	Russian Handball Super League
2024-25	3rd
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

The organization was founded in 2001 on the basis of the disbanded original CSKA Moscow Handball Club.

Kits

AWAY
2014-15	2016-17	2017-18

Accomplishments

As CSKA Moscow

• EHF Champions League
  • Winners (1): 1987–88
• EHF Cup Winner's Cup
  • Winners (1): 1986–87
• EHF Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1990–91
• Soviet Handball Championship
  • Winners (9) (record): 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987
• Soviet Handball Cup
  • Winners (3): 1984, 1985, 1986
• Russian Handball Super League
  • Winners (4): 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001

As Chekhovskiye Medvedi

• EHF Cup Winner's Cup
  • Winners (1): 2005–06
• Russian Handball Super League
  • Winners (21) (record): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Russian Handball Cup
  • Winners (15) (record): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
• Russian Super Cup
  • Winners (9) (record): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home leg	Away leg	Aggregate
2021–22	EHF European League	Group Stage Group B	Nantes	31–35	0–10	6th place
			Lemgo	28–30	27–30
			GOG	32–39	26–27
			Benfica	27–32	35–38
			Cocks	0–10	33–27

Team

Squad for the 2025–26 season

Goalkeepers 12 Dmitry Pavlenko 16 Artem Grushko Left Wingers 02 Donat Morozov 19 Roman Ostrashchenko Right Wingers 24 Dmitry Kornev 00 Mikhail Gredasov Line players 31 Victor Futsev 55 Aleksandr Ermakov 91 Vadim Ibrakov

Left Backs 15 Ivan Shelmenko 00 Vladimir Merkulov Central Backs 09 Kirill Kotov 44 Dmitriy Kandybin 72 Denis Afonin Right Backs 17 Aleksandr Kotov 93 Anton Aksyukov

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining Vladimir Merkulov (LB) (back from loan at Sungul Snezhinsk) Mikhail Gredasov (RW) (from Sungul Snezhinsk)

Leaving Vladislav Martynenko (GK) (to Sungul Snezhinsk) Kirill Akramov (LB) (on loan to Viktor Stavropol) Dmitrii Santalov (LB) (to ?) Ilya Dzemin (RW) (to Dynamo Astrakhan) ?

Notable players

• Pavel Sukosyan
• Konstantin Igropulo
• Vitali Ivanov
• Alexey Kostygov
• Alexey Kamanin
• Pavel Atman
• Sergei Gorbok
• Sergei Shelmenko
• Oleg Skopintsev