BC Uralmash Yekaterinburg
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| Uralmash Yekaterinburg | ||||
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| Leagues | VTB United League | |||
| Founded | 1960 | |||
| Arena | Palace of Sporting Games (DIVS) | |||
| Capacity | 4,281 | |||
| Location | Yekaterinburg, Russia | |||
| Team colors | Orange, black and green | |||
| Head coach | Anton Yudin | |||
| Championships | Super League 1: 2 (2022, 2023) Super League 3: 1 (2017) | |||
| Website | bcuralmash.ru | |||
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Uralmash Yekaterinburg are a Russian professional basketball team that plays in the VTB United League. They won Russian Basketball Super League 1 championships in 2022 and 2023.
Super League
Established in 1960,[1] the team has history that stems back to the 1940s.[2] Prior to a city name change, the team was known as Uralmash Sverdlovsk. FIBA Hall of Fame member Sergei Belov played for Uralmash in the 1960s,[3] as did several other members of the senior men's Soviet Union national team over the years, such as: Nikolai Kraev, Lev Reshetnikov, Aleksandr Kandel, Viacheslav Novikov, Ivan Dvorny, Anatoly Myshkin, and Stanislav Yeryomin.[2]
After winning the Super League 3 championship in 2016–17, Uralmash was promoted to the Super League 2 for the 2017–18 season where they finished third. They were promoted to the Super League 1 for the 2018–19 season. The team finished second in the Super League 1 in 2020–21 and then won back-to-back championships in 2021–22 and 2022–23.[4][5] Evgeniy Pashutin was the team's head coach during the 2021–22 season.[6]
VTB United League
In May 2023, Uralmash was promoted to the VTB United League.[7] In March 2025, Uralmash won the Russian Basketball Cup.[8]
Honours and distinctions
(2): 2022, 2023
- (1): 2017
- (1): 2025
