History
As appeared in the world Cherkassy monkeys "
 
With the advent of Cherkassy successful and promising basketball team «Cherkassy Monkeys» about our town talk in perspective. Basketball became a profession, hobby, hobby for many черкасців and basketball court - a favorite place of rest. Odessa became the capital of basketball. Now is born basketball tradition, «Cherkassy Monkeys» praise our city far beyond Ukraine.
 
Parallel paths to a common goal

Idea in Cherkassy basketball team appeared in spring 2003
year. First big basketball fans and experts of the sport Alexander Nagorny, and Vladimir Marchenko organized in Cherkassy city championship among the men's team. Fight for victory in the city tournament were 5 teams, including two teams from Cherkasy National University. Khmelnitskogo, one team from the Cherkasy Institute of Fire Safety named. Heroes of Chernobyl and Cherkasy State Technological University and the city team. After a successful championship winged little success Vladimir Marchenko, Alexander & Alexander Nagorny Golinskii decided to create a professional basketball team that could play in the championship of Ukraine.

   But the fall has started preparations for the Championship of Ukraine among the first teams of the league. In that debut by coincidence had occurred in the 13 season, not zvazhaly enthusiasts. Was invited to team Cherkassy guys who were school children and youth basketball, and several students from the Cherkassy Institute of Fire Safety. Returned to Sergei Cherkas and Dmytro Marchenko Corn, who played in the winery in tamoshnie basketball club.

To solve the most difficult issue - the financing team, the negotiations with potential sponsors were conducted regularly, but all ended promises. Only the Rector of Cherkassy Institute of Fire Safety Nikolai Shkarabura supported pioneering enthusiasm, which was, incidentally, is crucial in the quest to start in the Championship of Ukraine among the first teams of the league. The team called the "savior-Odessa.

Two first-round game Cherkaski basketball lost. In these same
four matches and they still won their first two victories. And after four prizes in the third round of the Savior, Cherkasy became a real contender to withdraw from group "A" to the next stage.

Given the fact that the team had financial problems, Nagorno, Marchenko and Golinskii decided to seek the assistance director Sergei Odaricha Cherkasky documents. Why to Odaricha? The fact is that the leaders of the club is hard to believe that basketball team in Cherkassy someone help. Odarych in time was a new man, and came to Kyiv, where basketball, thanks to BC Kyiv was already on the rise. At the time the conversation was conducted only for help in buying balls, kit-form. Then Marchenko, Golinskii and Nagorno did not know that in 2003 a similar idea in Cherkassy basketball team contemplated ... Sergei Odarych with his business partner Michael Brodsky.
 
Save the MLC and the basketball team

Sergey Cherkas Odarych arrived in 2002 to lead the woodworking factory and make it a year and a half now profitable. When Sergei Odarych became the director documents in the company had three owners: he, Michael Brodsky and Sergei leathern. Of this trio only Sergei leathern not a great fan of basketball. At that time Odaricha and Brodsky was a dream - after the withdrawal of documents from the crisis of the profit target for basketball.

For the year, in autumn 2003, MLC began to receive income. Then Sergei Odarych and Michael Brodsky decided that will implement the project tentatively basketball next year. The only condition was full repayment of debts dock. A few days after a conversation on this subject to the director documents with support Cherkassy basketball team "savior" called Nagorny, Golinskii, Marchenko.
 
- At the moment - remember Sergei Odarych - we knew nothing about "savior." Team manager sent me to Nina A. Nabokina. At the time Mashbud where Nina Nabokina was one of the managers provided all possible assistance to the local basketball and thus She was familiar with Vladimir Marchenko. The guests told me that the assistance provided by the Fire Institute to participate in the Championship of Ukraine among the teams first league enough. I said - well, that our views converge, but the MLC can not yet do this project in full. However, I promised to think about where we scale
can help. Consulted with Mikhail Brodsky and considering all
our capabilities, we decided, despite the fact that DOC has not rozrahuvavsya debt, help the team. "Savior" could simply play out the season, so with one hand. On the other hand, we still had to start from the first league even though a year. So we tried to use his chance a year earlier than planned. Moreover, we seen that the MLC in the season 2004/2005 years will fund a team that could fight for a trip to the super. We decided to find reserves and finance the "savior". In an expeditious manner was established club "Odessa", which was registered on January 29, 2004. It consists went "savior" and participation in the tournament has continued under our auspices.

Season 2004 and 2005. basketball team began under the name of Cherkassy Monkeys. League race in the Premier League «Cherkassy Monkeys» new head coach Anatoly Fedorenko were exactly, earned a trip to the super.

A young team with high ambitions

In season 2005/2006 he was before «monkeys» Management Team tasked - in the season to fight for the bronze medals in super. The team with the task managed and led at the finish of the season against the BC «chemist» 3 place. Victory in this confrontation took Yuzhnensk club and «Cherkassy Monkeys» 4 took place.

In the season 2006/2007 «Cherkassy Monkeys» draw debut in the European Challenge Cup. Successfully passing the group stage of European competitions, «Monkeys» reached the quarterfinals, where intense fighting with fellow lost Dnipropetrovsk, BC «Dnipro». In 16 championship of Ukraine «Monkeys» took fourth place. Such results and the same team showed in the Cup of Ukraine.

In 2007, the pivot Cherkassky monkey »Kirill Fesenko was the fifth national basketball player, who was invited to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - USA. During his stay in Cherkassy club Fesenko showed good results, thus confirming that it is one of the most promising Ukrainian players. Cherkasky interested in playing basketball «Utah Jazz» of the NBA. Guide «Cherkasky monkey» supporters of Cyril to play in the NBA, and the summer of 2007, our basketball player signed a contract with the U.S. team «Utah Jazz».

«Utah Jazz» - professional basketball club, which plays in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded in 1974. Club based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 
Overall in the season 2007/2008 the team in the regular season finished only seventh, with the Cup after Ukraine left out ¼, and in the European Cup FIBA passing skills, "vyletila after 1 round group. The reason for failure was the unsuccessful invasion of injuries and selection policy that led to a change of more than 10 players in the team this season. There was dismissed head coach Andrew Podkovyrov and invited him to place experienced Serbian Yovitsa Arsich, which is also the chief coach of the national team of Macedonia.
 
Season 2008/2009 «Cherkassy Monkeys» started with the strongest structure in the history of the team. Balkan legionnaires very high level in the team appeared in the summer, and «Monkeys» came to the new league championship Ubl fully prepared to fight. The first 2 terms of championships were dominated by «Cherkasky monkey». Trust Yovitsy Arsicha make sure the application for a victory in Ubl, but completely provalyvshy finiteness of the season, the team has failed to muster its forces. As a result, the liabilities «monkey» 9 place championship. The reasons for the failure known as the lack of a team game and unfavorable climate in the team. Star performers no longer find a common language, and as a result, the team failed season.

Before the season 2009/2010 leadership team took a course on «restarted» and Ukrain. Reviewing its own personnel policy and management analysis of errors «monkey» contracts with Ukrainian players to form a skeleton team. Parallel development of the school basketball Cherkasky, whose inmates are guaranteed the best seats in the main team. Developed a strategy of the Club for the next 3 years.