Transfers
Baltika transfers 2026
Who came, who left and who was never quite bought — a card for every deal, with links to our pieces on it.
Summer 2026
The first summer back in the top flight: Andrade and Borisko sold, nine newcomers signed outright, and one deal that fell through.
Arrivals 9
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From: Alianza (Panama)
Option triggered on 26 May with the player valued at €500k.
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Konstantin Shiltsov
Attacking midfielder
From: Neftekhimik
The contract to 2030 was announced back in February; he finished the season in Nizhnekamsk and joined on 1 July.
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From: Pari NN
Baltika beat Rubin and Lokomotiv to him.
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From: Orenburg
The club ended up signing both right-back candidates it had weighed in spring.
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From: Pari NN
A contract to 15 July 2030 — his first permanent deal after five loans.
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From: Grenoble
The summer's biggest buy per L'Équipe; Transfermarkt lists €1m. Four-year contract.
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Evgeny Latyshonok
Goalkeeper
From: Zenit — via Nizhny Novgorod
A First League club bought him from Zenit and loaned him straight to Kaliningrad; sources disagree on whether Baltika hold a buy option.
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From: Rostov
In August Lokomotiv offered ₽200m and Rostov asked for at least 400 — no deal; a month later Baltika closed theirs for less.
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From: Shinnik
Contract to 10 June 2029. Two years ago he picked Ural over Baltika.
Departures 5
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To: Zenit
Bought from América de Cali in January 2024; the defensive leader of the club's best season.
- WyScout versus golden steaks. How Baltika sells meteorites to the giants
- Baltika goes to Colombia again. Who is Jose Garcia and why sign him after selling Andrade
- The money is there. Will the team stay?
Photo: Vyacheslav Evdokimov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Derik Lacerda
Forward
To: Cuiabá (Brazil)
The €1.5m buy option was not taken up; he is not in the 2026/27 squad.
No freely licensed photo
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To: CSKA
CSKA did not negotiate — they triggered the clause after matchday one. A 3+1 contract, No. 39.
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Abu-Said Eldarushev
Forward
Fee: €120k*
To: Rotor
A 24-year-old forward; per FNL s Ilyovym, Rotor paid about ₽10m for him.
Photo: Artur Stabulnieks / soccer.ru / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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To: Lokomotiv
Two years ago Lokomotiv let him go to Baltika for €80k. He went back home.
- The money is there. Will the team stay?
- 2+2, eight yellows and almost no highlights. How Titkov became Baltika's hidden engine
Photo: FC Baltika, archive
Did not happen 6
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Club / interest: sale rumours
Our spring verdict: sell only from €6m and only with a replacement lined up. He stayed.
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Fyodor Chalov
Forward
Club / interest: PAOK
Discussed as a loan option; the club went another way.
Photo: Artem Gusev / soccer.ru / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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José García
Centre-back
Fee: ≈ $1.5m (asking)
Club / interest: Atlético Bucaramanga (Colombia)
The Colombian-route candidate to replace Andrade; the slot went to Mouyokolo and Anderson instead.
No freely licensed photo
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Club / interest: Torino, Panathinaikos, Bologna
Torino's first bid (€2–2.5m) was rejected; in August Bologna at €5m was reported. Bought in 2023 for €500k.
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Mohamed El Amine Ramdaoui
Forward
Fee: ≈ €1.2m (agreed)
Club / interest: Paradou (Algeria)
Flew to Moscow, passed the medical and flew home three days later — to USMA.
No freely licensed photo
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Houssem Mrezigue
Midfielder
Fee: ≈ €1m (estimate)
Club / interest: Dynamo Makhachkala
Makhachkala wanted to extend rather than sell; nothing was signed before the window closed.
Winter 2026
The record sale of Saus to Spartak and two quiet arrivals that mattered more by summer than the loud ones.
Arrivals 2
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From: CSKA
Contract to 31 December 2029; CSKA kept a share of any future sale.
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Eduardo Anderson
Centre-back
From: Alianza (Panama)
The option was exercised in May.
Departures 1
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Vladislav Saus
Right-back
Fee: ₽350m (≈ €3.5m)*
To: Spartak
A club record. Bought from Zenit-2 in summer 2024 for €150k; 15% went to Zenit as the former owner.
Photo sources
Portraits of Baltika players are the club’s official photos; everyone else comes from freely licensed Wikimedia Commons pictures with author and licence shown. Where no free photo exists, the card stays without one.
- FC Baltika, official portrait — Eduardo Anderson, Konstantin Shiltsov, Maxim Shnaptsev, Fahd Moufi, Ilya Kirsh, Loris Mouyokolo, Evgeny Latyshonok, Yegor Golenkov, Ilya Porokhov, Brian Gil, Nathan Gassama, Mikhail Ryadno
- Vyacheslav Evdokimov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Kevin Andrade
- VanyI21 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — Maxim Borisko
- Artur Stabulnieks / soccer.ru / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Abu-Said Eldarushev
- FC Baltika, archive — Nikolay Titkov
- Artem Gusev / soccer.ru / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Fyodor Chalov
- Oussbiad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — Houssem Mrezigue
- author unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Vladislav Saus
- No freely licensed photo — Derik Lacerda, José García, Mohamed El Amine Ramdaoui