Club history

Volleyball club "Gazprom-Ugra" (from 1996 by 2000 year - "Gazovik-KYC", from 2000 by 2007 - "ZSK-Gazprom") It was founded in 1996 year on the basis of the Surgut plant of condensate stabilization (GBR) with the full support of the company's director Hamit Nurmuhametovich Yasaveeva. At the root of the team was standing by its current CEO and long-term head coach, Honored coach of Russia Rafael Talgatovich Habibullin.

IN 2000 the team came to the big leagues, "A" of the Russian championship, and 2002 she won a ticket to the Super League, where he has been performing for nineteen seasons.

RESULTS performance of the team in the Super League:

Over the years, the colors of "Gazprom-Ugra" protected Vyacheslav Rud, Yaroslav Vasilenko, Oleg Sogrin, Dmitry Jaundice, Igor Shulepov, Dmitry Krasikov, Denis Biryukov, Alexander Gutsalyuk, Maxim Proskurnia, Alexander Yanutov and other famous Russian volleyball players. Among the notable contribution of foreign players in club history have Robert Prygel, Todor Alexiev, Teodor Todorov, Lucas Kadzhevych, Plamen Konstantinov, Theodore Salparov, Sasha Gadnik.

In the shape of the Russian national team 2010 They were tried on Dmitry Krasikov and Alexander Yanutov, in 2011 - Denis Biryukov, in 2012 - Igor Kobzar and Alexei Rodichev, in 2014 - Alexei and Artem Rodichev Smolar, in 2015 - Sergei Antypkin.

In 2009, the winners of the Universiade as part of a student team of Russia became the pupils of "Gazprom-Ugra" Artem Tkachev and Nikita Khabibullin, in 2011 won gold Universiade Alexander Gutsalyuk, Vasyl Nosenko and Roman Martynyuk, in 2013, the winner of the Universiade was Denis Shipotko, and in 2015 - Alexei Kabeshov.

club system pupils Alexander Goncharov and Maxim Troinin - world and European champions among youth teams, Ivan Vlasenko - European Champion. Surgut School volleyball representatives have in each of the Russian youth and junior teams!

In season 2010/2011 years Gazprom-Ugra made its debut in the European club tournament - the Challenge Cup. The team reached the quarterfinals, in which a bitter struggle (2:3, 1:3) It gave way to the future owner of the Cup - the Italian "Macerata".

Russian championship 2011/2012 year "Gazprom-Ugra" in the memorable victory 1/8 finals over one of the main contenders for the title of national champion - Belgorod "Belogorye". In the quarterfinals, the team led by Plamen Konstantinov gave battle Kazan "Zenith", and in the fight for fifth place only in the fifth game of the fifth game has given way to Ufa "Ural".

Championship 2012/2013 , the team began under the leadership of Andrew Shcheglov and confidently took the first part of the tournament race, consistently beating all the leaders of the domestic volleyball, including the "Zenith", "Belogorye", Novosibirsk "Locomotive", Moscow "Dynamo". Followed by a decline, the consequence of which was the resignation of head coach, and 1/8 finals of the playoffs, "Gazprom-Ugra" under the direction of Rafael Khabibulin stopped Odintsovo "Spark".

In the championship 2013/2014 the team's helm stood Vadim Hamuttskih, significant changes have occurred in the composition - to replace the diagonal Anton Mysina came Alexey Cheremisin, the main link was Sergei Antypkin, He returned to the team in Surgut alumnus Dennis Shipotko. "Gazprom-Ugra" won the championship at the preliminary stage 7 a place, and ? finals only in the final, the fifth match of the series gave way to the Nizhny Novgorod "province".

In season 2014/2015 , the game structure has undergone minor changes (Artem left Smolar), as well as a coach came ex-mentor of the French "Rennes" Boris Grebennikov. But in the course of the championship team effort such well-known players, Constantine Bakun and Dmitry Krasikov, and Ruslan Hanipov. Before the decisive match of the championship position of head coach again took Rafael Habibullin. Under his leadership, the team beat Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in the ¼ finals and reached the semifinals of the Russian Championship for the first time in the club's history.. Yielding Belgorod "Belogorye", and in the series for "bronze" - to the Moscow "Dynamo", "Gazprom-Ugra", Nevertheless, He achieved the best outcome for themselves - fourth place, incidentally won a ticket to the CEV Cup.

Before season 2015/2016 s part of "Gazprom-Ugra" seriously updated. Todor Alexiev command pokinuli, Teodor Todorov, Sergey Antypkin, Dmitry Krasikov, Denis Shipotko, Ruslan Hanipov, Sergey Snegirev, Aleksey Marina Sheshenina. They Ereschenko Yang replaced, Alexey Safonov, Denis Getman, Anton Astashenkov, Ruslan Askerov, Aleksa Brd?ovi?, Evgeny Andreev, Pavel Zaytsev, They were involved in their own pupils - Boris Firsov, Anton Semyshev. The coaching staff of the team added surgutyaninom Vladimir Kondusovym, senior coach was Ruslan Zhbankov.

Gazprom-Ugra repeated last year's result in the national championship, taking the final fourth place - the tournament was held in a two-round system without a playoff. In the Cup of the European Confederation of Volleyball, Surgutians reached the final, consecutively beating the Dutch "Abyat Lycurgus", Finnish "Tikerit", Greek "Olympiakos", Swiss Dragons and Moscow Dynamo. In the first final match in Berlin, Gazprom-Ugra lost 2:3 local "Berlin Recycling". Everything had to be decided in Surgut, but due to the well-known "meldonium" scandal, the hosts were forced to play in fact with the second squad and lost 0:3.

Before season 2016-2017 years Konstantin Bakun left Surgut, Nikolai Apalikov, Yan Ereshchenko and Alexey Kabeshov, all are main players. Of the recruits, we note the arrival of Petar Krsmanovich and Kirill Ursov. In the championship of Russia "Gazprom-Ugra" took the eighth place, but made it to the Final Six thanks to the victory in the play-offs with Kemerovo "Kuzbass". In the CEV Cup, the Surgut team stopped at 1/8 finale, losing to the Czech Karlovy Vary.

season 2017-2018 years brought new losses - Aleksa Brdzhovich left for health reasons, injured Alexander Chefranov. The team for the first time since 2011 did not make it into the top eight, but beat Yaroslavich and avoided participation in the play-out tournament. Reached the semi-finals in the ECV Challenge Cup Gazprom-Ugra, where he lost to Olympiacos.

In season 2018-2019 years the team entered without Anton Semyshev and Alexei Safonov, but with Artem Dovgan and Leonid Shchadilov, taking 11th place in the Super League. Libero Evgeny Andreev and player Kirill Ursov made their debut in the Russian national team.

IN 2019-m year Pole Maciej Muzai came to Surgut, became the top scorer of the Superleague at the end of the championship. spring 2020 of the year, thanks to a home victory over Kazan "Zenith" in the last round, Gazprom-Ugra made it to the playoffs, which was canceled due to the COVID pandemic.

IN season 2020-2021 of the year Gazprom-Ugra, replenished with Rajabdibir Shakhbanmirzaev and Yegor Yakutin, played half of the championship with the youth team. As a result, the team got into the play-out from 11th place in the preliminary part of the championship, where she lost one more line to Dynamo-LO.

Before championship 2021-2022 s Nikita Alekseev came to Surgut, Ivan Lukyanenko, Ivan Ropavka, Dmitry Makarenko, Ilya Kovalev, Alexey Kabeshov and Dmitry Krasikov returned. "Gazprom-Ugra" in the first round confidently walked in the playoff zone, but after the new year there was a decline, associated with injuries to players and the departure of Kovalev. The team lacked two wins, and in the play-out, the Surgut team confidently won, having moved from 12th to the final 11th place.