Chekhovskiye Medvedi

Chekhovskie Medvedi (Чеховские Медведи, 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.

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

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

Team

 * Squad for the 2024–25 season


 * Goalkeepers
 * 12 🇷🇺 Dmitry Pavlenko
 * 16 🇷🇺 Artem Grushko
 * Left Wingers
 * 2 🇷🇺 Donat Morozov
 * 19 🇷🇺 Roman Ostrashchenko
 * Right Wingers
 * 24 🇷🇺 Dmitry Kornev
 * 39 🇷🇺 Ilya Dzemin
 * Line players
 * 31 🇷🇺 Victor Futsev
 * 55 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Ermakov
 * 🇷🇺 Vadim Ibrakov


 * Left Backs
 * 3 🇷🇺 Dmitrii Santalov
 * 25 🇷🇺 Evgeniy Dzemin
 * 83 🇷🇺 Kirill Akramov
 * Central Backs
 * 9 🇷🇺 Kirill Kotov
 * 44 🇷🇺 Dmitriy Kandybin
 * Right Backs
 * 17 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Kotov
 * 93 🇷🇺 Anton Aksyukov

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2024–25 season


 * [[Image:Arrow-up.gif]] Joining
 * 🇷🇺 Vadim Ibrakov (P) (end of loan 🇷🇺 HC Kaustik Volgograd)


 * [[Image:Arrow-down.gif]] Leaving
 * 🇧🇾 Artsiom Kulak (CB) (to 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg HC)
 * 🇷🇺 Nikita Kamenev (RB) (to 🇷🇺 GK Permskie Medvedi)
 * 🇷🇺 Nikolai Emelianenko (P) (to 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg HC)

Notable players

 * 🇷🇺 Pavel Sukosyan
 * 🇷🇺 Konstantin Igropulo
 * 🇷🇺 Vitali Ivanov
 * 🇷🇺 Alexey Kostygov
 * 🇷🇺 Alexey Kamanin
 * 🇷🇺 Pavel Atman
 * 🇷🇺 Sergei Gorbok
 * 🇷🇺 Sergei Shelmenko
 * 🇷🇺 Oleg Skopintsev