As planned, performance in the Russian Cup became the most important stage in preparation for the national championship. “Gazprom-Yugra” before the first round and after the second – two different teams in terms of quality of play, dynamics visible to the naked eye. Sure, qualifying for the next round would be the icing on the cake., but, hand on heart - after the match with Belogorye 15 October in Read more »
The final day of the Surgut cup battles started with a dry loss of the unmotivated “Kuzbass” to “Ugra-Samotlor”. But the second game between Gazprom-Yugra and Shakhtar was fundamental. At first, the Surgut residents really wanted to take revenge from the Soligorsk team for their losses at the Platonov Memorial and the first round of the Russian Cup in Kemerovo, and secondly, try to get ahead of Shakhtar in the standings. The first was successful in Read more »
In the first match of the second preliminary stage of the Russian Cup of the match day, Shakhtar and Samotlor met. Guardian, looking ahead, nothing supernatural was shown. Belarusians forced their opponents to make mistakes over and over again. Valery Pyaskovsky's team has so far, seem to be, formation stage, The Ugra team created a minimum of difficult moments for the opponent. There were several of them in the second and third sets, where are the Samotlor volleyball players? Read more »
The second round of the preliminary part of the Russian Cup started with the match between Kuzbass and Shakhtar Soligorsk. The Russians dominated the early part of the game, having created a decent reserve at the start - 13:6, 21:13. Slavi Kostadinov put an end to the set: Stanislav Zaborovsky missed the ball, flying into the area - 25:15. In the remaining two sets, Shakhtar did not give up and tried to force a fight, but the players Read more »
The first round of the Russian Cup is behind us, in which Gazprom-Yugra beat Ugra-Samotlor, but lost to Kuzbass and Shakhtar. The second round in Surgut is ahead, YUKIOR played all his matches at a fairly high level 22 by 24 September at the Premier Arena. Our team is serious about the fight and intends to take revenge. Compared to the performance at the Platonov Memorial, the quality of the Surgut players’ play has naturally increased. Actually, that's how it was planned, Read more »
This year, the formula for holding the tournament has changed due to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Russian volleyball and requires additional explanation.. commands, who occupied 1-8 places in the last championship of Russia, will play a separate Cup of the century of domestic volleyball. The first four places in this tournament give you a ticket to the ¼ finals of the Russian Cup. Four more teams from the top eight will play in 1/8 Read more »
Honored Master of Sports became a newcomer of Gazprom-Ugra, Olympic champion Alexey Obmochaev. Alexey is already training with the team and will take part in the first round of the Russian Cup, which kicks off 7 September in Kemerovo.
Gazprom-Ugra returned to Surgut from St. Petersburg and we talked with the head coach of the team Denis Garkushenko about the results and lessons of the Platonov Memorial. What is your impression of the tournament in St. Petersburg? Double impression. One side, the tournament was needed in terms of acquiring the first match practice, viewing newcomers, on the other hand, a very difficult format, four games in four Read more »
Gazprom-Ugra traditionally has a hard time entering the playing season. It is difficult to judge the internal state of rivals at the Platonov Memorial, but quite characteristic, that two major league "A" teams made it to the semi-finals, and Yaroslavl won at all. Who is a little better prepared - that and slippers. In such tournaments, everyone solves their own internal tasks., but no one canceled the desire to win: Read more »
XVIII Memorial of Vyacheslav Platonov starts today in St. Petersburg, in which Gazprom-Ugra takes part. The debut match of the season will start for Surgut in 15.30 by Moscow time, the opponent is the newcomer of the Superleague Shakhtar from Salihorsk, Belarus. 24 August "Gazprom-Ugra" will play with CSKA, playing in the major league "A", the group stage of the tournament for our guys will end with a match with the Ufa "Ural" 25 Read more »
