Aleksandr Rylov — a Nizhny Novgorod sports journalist and correspondent for the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Sport, where he has worked for more than twenty years. In November 2024, he won the XIV All-Russian Festival-Competition of Sports Journalism "Energiya Pobed" in the category "Lev Rossoshik Prize for Best Publication" among regional Mass Media[1].
A victory among three hundred and fifty-five entries
For the 2024 competition, the selection committee received 355 entries from across the country. In the Lev Rossoshik Prize category, Rylov was joined in the final by journalists from Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Belgorod, Barnaul, Astrakhan, Tyumen, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Izhevsk, Grozny, and Chelyabinsk and Leningrad Regions[1].
The jury awarded first place to the Nizhny Novgorod resident. The prize was presented to him by Dmitry Troshkin, head coach of the Russian national sambo team; the results were announced in Moscow on November 22, 2024[1].
Twenty years at Nizhegorodsky Sport
The newspaper he works for is one of the oldest weeklies in the region: the first issue of Nizhegorodsky Sport appeared on January 31, 1994, and the publication marked its thirtieth anniversary in early 2024[3]. Few sports publications in the country that were born in the nineties have survived to the age of thirty.
Nizhegorodsky Sport is part of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Information Center — a state holding company that brings together regional newspapers and agencies[1]. Rylov's articles also appear Nizhny Novgorod Pravda, in its sports section.
His main subject is Torpedo Hockey Club: rosters for the new season, preseason training camps, friendly matches, and the club's plans for the Kontinental Hockey League championship. In September 2026, he wrote about the team's plans for the nineteenth KHL season and about who the club was entering the new year with[2].
He covers the hockey season from the off-season through to the opening matches: at the end of August 2026, he wrote about twenty-nine Torpedo players' trip to the Moscow Mayor's Cup, and in early September — about the club's plans for the championship, which opened on September 5[2]. That same season, the team was relocating to a Strelka, and the preparations for the move were also covered in his articles.
Not only hockey
Rylov's sports coverage extends beyond club affairs: he writes about mass-participation events and city competitions. In August 2026, for instance, he published a piece about the night run on the Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, which took place in Nizhny Novgorod for the fourth time[2].
This range — from the Kontinental Hockey League to an amateur fun run — is what makes him one of the few in the city who covers sports continuously rather than event by event.
At the newspaper's anniversary, the editorial team noted that it had been sustained by precisely this consistency of staff: sports officials from the city and region, federations, and colleagues came to congratulate a team that had worked together for decades[3].
Sources
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda (archive) — NOIC journalist wins All-Russian competition
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda (archive) — Nizhegorodsky Sport — the publication's sports section
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Journalists of the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Sport congratulated on the publication's 30th anniversary