Zarya Kaspija Astrakhan
| Full name | GK Zarya Kaspija Astrakhan | ||
| Founded | 1978 | ||
| Club colors | Red Blue | ||
| Hall | Sports Palace "Spartak", Astrakhan | ||
| president | Kanat Zenetullajewitsch Shantimirow | ||
| executive Director | Oleg Rafailowitsch Maslakov | ||
| Trainer | Alexei Viktorovich Pschelyakov | ||
| league | Russian Handball Super League | ||
| 2012/2013 | |||
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| Website | zarya-kaspiya.ru | ||
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| Greatest successes | |||
| National |
Soviet championship master 1990 runner-up 1989, 1991 Russian championship runner-up: 1999, 2001, 2002 2003, 2004, 2005 2006, 2007, 2008 |
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| International |
EHF-Pokal : 2003 final European Champion ’s Cup : 1991 semi-final |
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Sarja Kaspija Astrachan ( Russian Заря Каспия Астрахань ) is a handball club from the city of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea in Russia . The club was founded in 1978 as "Zarya" (Заря) and rose in 1985 as "Dinamo" (Динамо) in the highest Soviet league. From 1997 the association was named after the main sponsor " Lukoil -Dinamo" (ЛУКОЙЛ – Динамо) and since 2007 has had the current name, which means dawn of the Caspian Sea .
successes
- Soviet League
- Master 1990
- Vice champion in 1989 and 1991
- Third in 1992
- Russian Super League
- Vice champion in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008
- Third in 1995 and 2000
- PHL League (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine)
- Champion 2002 and 2005
- PHL Cup Winner 2006
- International
- European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1989/90 : Round of 16
- European Champion Clubs' Cup 1990/91 : semi-finals
- EHF Cup 1995/96 : quarter-finals
- Euro City Cup 1996/97: Round of 16
- Euro City Cup: 1997/98 round of 16
- European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1999/2000 : Round of 32
- EHF Cup 2000/01 : Round of 16
- EHF Cup 2001/02 : Round of 16
- EHF Cup 2002/03 : Final
- EHF Cup 2003/04 : semi-finals
- EHF Cup 2004/05 : semi-finals
- EHF Cup 2005/06 : quarter-finals
- EHF Cup 2006/07 : Round of 16
- EHF Champions League 2007/08 : group stage
- European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 2007/08 : quarter-finals
- EHF Cup 2008/09 : quarter-finals
- EHF Cup 2009/10 : Round of 16
- EHF Cup 2010/11 : 3rd round
Well-known former players
- Inal aflitulin
- Vyacheslav Atavin
- Pavel Bashkin
- Alexander Gorbatikov
- Alexei Kainarov
- Oleg Kisselev
- Vasily Kudinov
- Anton Merlyutin
- Sergei Predybailov
- Olexandr Shevelev
- Daniil Shishkarev
- Andrei Tyumensev
- Yevgeny Trefilov
- Igor Chumak
- Lev Voronin
Web links
- zarya-kaspiya.ru official website
- Zarya Kaspija Astrakhan in the EHF database