Dmitry Kulagin

At the age of six, he began playing basketball at the Timiryazevskaya sports school. After the sports school, he joined the CSKA youth project. He got his first professional experience in the Nizhny Novgorod team, with which he rose from Division Two to Professional Basketball League.

Dmitry spent the next three years of his career with Triumph and Red Wings. These three years the defender has played not only in the Russian championships, but also on the European arena – in the FIBA Euro Cup.

Kulagin played the 2014-15 season with our Club. In 26 games of the United League, Dmitry scored 10.8 points and made 3.5 rebounds per game on average. In Euro Cup games, Dima’s scoring exceeded 10 points per game.

In July 2015, he moved to CSKA Moscow. In two seasons with CSKA, he twice became the winner of the VTB United League and once – the Euro League champion.

Since the age of 16, Dmitry played for Russian national teams. As a member of the Russian national student team, he became winner of the World Student Games in Kazan in 2013.

Dmitry’s achievements: Symbolic five of the European U18 Championship (2010), Symbolic five of the World U19 Championship (2011), Winner of the World Student Games in Kazan (2013), Second Symbolic five of the Euro Cup (2018), Most valuable player of the Russian Final Four Cup (2018), Best VTB United League back-court player (2018), Best VTB United League Young Player (2014), VTB United League All-Star participant (2018, 2019, 2020).