Artyom Sergeyevich Dzyuba (b. August 22, 1988, Moscow, USSR) - Russian football player, striker of Zenit St. Petersburg and captain of the Russian national team. Honored master of sports of Russia.
Two-time Russian Cup winner (2014, 2016), two-time Russian super Cup winner (2015, 2016), Russian champion (2018/2019). Participant of the European championship in 2016 and the world championship in 2018.
Father Sergey Vladimirovich Dzyuba is a native of Lubny, Poltava region of Ukraine, worked as a policeman, played football in regional tournaments as a striker, then as a goalkeeper. Mother, Svetlana Aleksandrovna, was born in Tsivilsk, Chuvashia, worked as a saleswoman in a grocery store in Moscow, near the metro station "Shchelkovskaya", then became Deputy Director there. In this same no clothing left they and got acquainted]. Dzyuba's family was not rich: initially they lived in a communal apartment in Potapovsky lane and only then bought an apartment in the Novokosino district. In addition to Artem, the family had a daughter, Olga, in 1992.
At the age of 8 years Dzyuba came to the Academy of "Spartak", where he was invited after watching Alexander Yartsev, the son of Georgy Yartsev. In 2005, he moved to the adult team of Spartak and began to play for the reserve team on the recommendation of Yevgeny Sidorov. His success in the double earned the right to train with the main squad.
