Konoplyov football academy

In 2007 the name was changed in honor of its founder Yuri Konoplyov, a local businessman who died in 2006 aged 39.

The senior squad of the academy originally received a license to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2017–18 season, but before the season started, it became the feeder team to FC Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara instead.

[4] The best known alumni of the Konoplyov academy are Russian international midfielder Alan Dzagoev and 2006 UEFA U-17 Championship winners Anton Vlasov, Yevgeni Korotayev, Denis Shcherbak, Igor Gorbatenko, Dmitri Ryzhov and Roman Savenkov.

[7] Three more academy alumni made their Russia national football team debut in 2015: Roman Zobnin and Dmitri Yefremov.

Maksim Mukhin and Arsen Zakharyan made their debut in 2021, Denis Makarov was called up for the first time in 2021.