Dmitry Kulagin

At the age of six, he started playing basketball at the Timiryazevskaya sports school. After sports school, he joined the CSKA youth project. He got his first professional experience in Nizhny Novgorod, with which he rose from the second division to the Professional Basketball League. Dmitry spent the next three years of his career at Triumph and Red Wings. These three years, the defender played not only in the Russian championships, but also on the European stage – the FIBA Challenge 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 on average per game. In the Eurocup games, Dima's performance exceeded 10 points per match. In July 2015, he moved to CSKA Moscow. In two seasons as a member of the army, he twice became the winner of the VTB United League and once became the Euroleague champion. Since the age of 16, Dmitry has been involved in performances for the Russian national teams. As part of the Russian student national team, he became the winner of the Universiade in Kazan in 2013.

From 2017 to 2020, he played for Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar, before returning to Zenit St. Petersburg in 2021. With the blue-white-sky blues, Dmitry won the Russian Championship and the VTB United League title in 2022. From 2023 to 2026, Kulagin represented UNICS Kazan. Ahead of the 2026/27 season, the guard returned to Zenit St. Petersburg, signing a three-year contract.