The women's national team have started training
In preparation for the Four Nations, which will take place in Sweden between the 15th and 19th of December, the Russian senior women's national team have started training in Novogorsk. Head coach Alexei Chistyakov has called up four goaltenders, ten defenders and fourteen forwards:
Goalkeepers: Nadezhda Aleksandrova, Maria Sorokina, Nadezhda Morozova, Valeria Tarakanova.
Defenders: Alyona Andryuschenko, Maria Batalova, Angelina Goncharenko, Nina Pirogova, Yekaterina Lobova, Anna Shibanova, Liana Ganeeva, Maria Pechnikova, Yekaterina Nikolaeva, Victoria Chmyrikova.
Forwards: Alevtina Shtaryova, Elena Dergachyova, Anna Shokhina, Olga Sosina, Galina Skiba, Lyudmila Belyakova, Fanuza Kadirova, Elena Podkamennaya, Yekaterina Smolentseva, Yekaterina Likhachyova, Elina Mitrofanova, Lidiya Malyavko, Evgeniya Dyupina, Diana Kanaeva.
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