Leader of the second division Shinnik made another achievement on the transfer market. The club's administration signed a contract for season-2000 with half-back Alexander Kulchiy - the best player of the second division according to SE, SE-Internet correspondent Alexander NABOKOV reports.

Kulshiy was the seventh player of Shinnik-2001, who decided to extend his contract with the club. That was previously done by the goalkeeper Evgeny Kornyukhin, backs Andrey Novgorodov and Varat Makhmoutov, half-back Vladimir Skokov and Sergey Grishin and forward Alexey Bychkov.

Eight more players of Shinnik have long-term contracts with the club.