The second round of the Russian Championship "Gazprom-Yugra" is playing at home - the first match on the home ground promises a hot fight with a very interesting opponent, Novosibirsk "Locomotive". This club always sets itself the most ambitious goals - and often achieves them. Railwaymen have won two Russian Cups, championship silver and bronze, as well as a victory in the European Champions League. However, alongside Read more »
In the opening, Gordon Perin immediately took the floor - ace and 4:1 in favor of the owners. Gazprom speakers, Nevertheless, through the efforts of Krsmanovich, Ursova, Chefranova and Andreeva not only "ate" the gap, but also came forward - 10:8. Then the hosts block started working: Poroshin grabbed Ursov twice one to one, knocked on the "fence" Chefranov, 15:17… All over again - Read more »
Introducing Gazprom-Ugra's first rival in the Russian championship - Belgorod Belogorye. The name is very familiar to volleyball fans., only under it this season is hiding, in fact, completely unknown team. Judge for yourself: after the last season three diagonal left Belgorod at once - Georg Groser, Konstantin Bakun and Maxim Zhigalov, binder Sergey Grankin, central blockers Nikolay Nikolov and Read more »
Gazprom-Ugra started the new season with a traditional press conference the day before the departure to Belgorod, where next sunday, 14 October, Surgutians are waiting for the first test in the Super League - a match against the local "Belogorye". Senior coach Alexei Babeshin answered the questions of journalists, team captain Kirill Ursov and central blocker Petar Krsmanovich. Head coach Rafael Khabibullin was absent from the event due to Read more »
The compositions of the groups of the semi-final stage of the Cup of Russia have become known, semi-final venues and city, who will take the final. so, Final Four Cup of Russia named after Konstantin Reva 2018 will be held in Kazan 14-15 December of the current year. Respectively, Zenit-Kazan, as the host, automatically enters this stage of the competition, bypassing the semi-finals. Three more tickets will be raffled off among themselves 12 commands Read more »
Kirill Ursov is the youngest captain of the Superleague team. Just two years ago, he came to Gazprom-Ugra, but it feels, that he was always here. Today it is difficult to imagine the game of the team without a person, quickly progressed from a budding rookie to one of the leaders on the court. His progress did not go unnoticed by the coaching staff of the national team. Today Read more »
here you go, properly, and that's all - in Surgut, the first round of the preliminary part of the Cup of Russia in the zone 2. It ended not quite standardly - a stubborn duel between the hosts and the Barnaul "University". And before that, Zenit and Lokomotiv expected to deal with Tyumen and Samotlor, respectively: true, Tyumen managed to "squeeze" one party from St. Petersburg. Once again the lion Read more »
The fourth day of the preliminary stage of the Russian Cup in Surgut began with an unobvious (before the start of the match) victory of "Tyumen" over "University" – 3:0. In the first two days, the people of Barnaul lit, taking a point from Zenit and beating Samotlor, but, seem to be, then gave up a bit. "Tyumen", experiencing certain problems with the configuration, took every set quite confidently. I think, that these guesses are interesting Read more »
The third cup day began with a “cheerful” from Lokomotiv, who gave the hitherto uncompromising "University" an assessment 25:10. Altaians in the next two sets gathered their courage, but they failed to put up serious resistance to their geographical neighbors - 25:22, 25:20. All the magic is in the failed “students” attack and the ratio of aces 8:1 in favor of the railroad. The struggle of two competitors in the major league Read more »
The first match of the second day called, perhaps, the greatest interest - after all, the silver medalist of the last championship and the two-time winner of the Russian Cup met. Petersburgers, playing (unlike Novosibirsk) at full strength, won - in the fight, but in three parts. Georg Groser woke up at Zenit, showing 58 percent effectiveness in the attack and built four blocks, his counterpart Bakun too Read more »
