29 September in 13.00 in SC "Premier Arena", str. Bystrinskaya, house 18/4, the traditional pre-season press conference of the Gazprom-Ugra volleyball club will take place. It will be attended by the general manager of the club Vladimir Kondusov, Head coach of the team Alexander Gorbatkov, coach Denys Harkushenko, team players. We invite journalists from the mass media of Surgut and Ugra to participate.

Nothing already decided from a tournament point of view (both teams reached the semi-finals of the Cup of Russia) the final match between Kazan and Surgut suddenly turned into a good show. The hosts put up the best squad available, and the guests suddenly remembered the times, when there were no diagonals in volleyball nature, but there were two binders on the site at once. Vadim Ozhiganov Read more »

Today Rafael Khabibullin turns 60 years old. Usually on such dates it is customary to compose panegyrics and sum up. But it's not all about him.: does not like panegyrics, not going to sum up. Therefore ... ... Young Rafael has excellent prospects in the oil industry, his father Talgat Khabibullin was a star (Yes, then the stars were the people of labor) in the constellation of Surgutneftegaz Read more »

Promised the day before by Rafael Khabibullin "another volleyball" did take place. At first it seemed, that we will see a remake of the meeting of rivals in the first round, when teams alternately passed out and flipped a coin in the fifth set. The first set went like this.: separate feats like two aces in a row by Anton Botin (5:5) were lost against the background of the predictable and poor-quality game of Vadim Ozhiganov. On Read more »

The second round of the preliminary part of the Cup of Russia, he is the protracted first, began again for Surgut with a meeting with Belogorye. Belgorod, with three victories, decided, in fact, all your problems. However, Roman Poroshin was not immediately sent to the national team instead of Konstantin Abaev, who dropped out due to injury. And in general, they put up a combat squad for the match against Surgut, what can't you say Read more »

In the last match of the first round, Gazprom-Ugra met with the Kazan youth team: Labinsky appeared on the site, Hlyakin, Tolok, Romanovsky, chestnuts, Kononov and Krasilnikov. Someday these names, perhaps, become well known, but so far these are not even rotation players, with the exception of Labinsky and Kononov. From our side, the start was: Ozhiganov, Alekseev, Pawn, Ionov, Makarenko, Inner, Dyakov. However Read more »

Representing Zenit-Kazan, titles must be carefully considered, not to be mistaken. Multiple national champions, Champions League winners, Cup of Russia was taken ten times. Operating, by the way, trophy holders. If we put history aside, and look at the current state of Kazan, then you can see, how Alexey Verbov forms a new wave of winners. Zenit-Kazan has been living without Read more »

In the second match of the preliminary part of the Cup of Russia "Gazprom-Ugra" in a bitter struggle lost to the Orenburg "Neftyanik" 2:3. The game was so equal, that in the fifth set the scales tipped in favor of our opponent with a minimal score difference, 13:15. Though, hand on heart - should have taken the game. But damp, damp ... As promised, coaching staff Read more »

We already spoke, that the most important from the tournament point of view for Gazprom-Ugra in Kazan will be the meetings with the Orenburg Neftyanik - this opponent must be beaten, to reach the semi-finals of the Cup of Russia. Despite the last place, occupied by Neftyanik in the Superleague last season, underestimating this team would be a big mistake. If only because, that the current "Oilman" Read more »

Gazprom-Yugra opened the official season with an internal setting - to consider the preliminary part of the Russian Cup as part of the pre-season preparation. For the people of Surgut, this is a traditional story called "from the ship to the ball" and today we performed a rather incendiary dance with the Belgorod "Belogorye". In the first set, the debutant was embarrassed - Belogorye, after all, managed to play a full-fledged Spartakiad, and we, what Read more »