Homes passing by. We are going to Krasnoyarsk

"Gazprom-Ugra" (KhMAO-Yugra): S. Kostadinov – Yurinsky, Golovanov – Demakov, A. Kostadinov – Rodichev, Nagaets/Moiseev

Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk): Osipov – Fetsov, Maksimov – Tsepkov, Stern–Galimov, Yanutov/Golubev

The match began with a serve from Daniil Golovanov, who before the game received the prize for the best player in the preliminary part of the International League. Back to the front line, he gave up his place at the net to the more experienced Anton Andreev. The Surgut team gained a break advantage in the opening thanks to two errors by Vitaly Fetsov, who soon stopped making mistakes. Vitaly's shot into touch resulted in a point and equality on the scoreboard through video review, 7:7.

Slavi closes Stern's attack one on one, Fetzov gets an ace with a short serve to Kostadinova., Moiseev is excellent in defense - 11:11. Gradually, the guests undermine the hosts’ reception and move forward: Maksimov scores a passing goal, Yurinsky and Kostadinov are closed by a block, 14:18.

Gazprom-Yugra returns to the game through its serve: ace Slavi, ace of his brother Alexander, 19:20. Rodichev's block-out on a passing ball equalizes the situation, 22:22. The anticipation of an equal ending is cut short by two shots from the Ugra captain into touch, 22:25.

The trend continues in the second batch.: Poor reception from Ugra leads to breaks from Krasnoyarsk: Slavi is forced to enter someone else's airspace, Rodichev fails to score on a given ball, 5:7. Nagaets missed a serve from Osipov, and then took the opponent's side, ceding the entire volume of work to Moiseev. After submitting to the network, Slavi gave up his place on the court to Kirillov. He activated Yurinsky, but the freeball through Kostadinov was not realized, 13:16.

Kirillov closes the sky to Stern, correcting another move on the opponent's side, but individual exploits do not change the picture of the game - the guests are more collected and do not give up theirs. But the Surgut team did not benefit from Kirillov’s excellent actions, now in defense - Yurinsky does not convert the break ball, 17:20. Yurinsky and Andreev again run into a forest of hands, two consecutive time-outs did not help. Yurinsky's kick into touch brings Enisey a set point and at the end of the day Kirill Nikiforov appears on the court after a long break. Soon Galimov puts an end to the second zone.

In the third game it turned out, that Nikiforov is not yet ready to pound balls with meat, and “Yenisei” softened everything else, picked up and returned through Fettsov, Stern, Galimova, Osipov did not forget about the center of the net. However, in the first third of the set the hosts tried to get a grip on the game, worked in defense, attacked with varying success, forgetting about the diagonal, and even led the score, 9:8.

But Fetsov scores, but Nikiforov - no, 9:11. Rodichev scores a hard ball, Osipov and Kirillov exchange discounts, 13:15. And then it works, what worked before: Galimov shortens the pass to Kostadinova, earns freeball, which Osipov confidently implements through Maksimov, 13:17.

Kostadinov does not take advantage of the next chance in the final game and there is something to think about: and the pass is again aimed at the block, and Alexander himself could not come up with anything and fix it. Think the finisher goes to the square, on the site Sergey Panov. Demakov, who played the entire match efficiently, scores the zone, Galimov's pipe and Stern's discount are reversed by Rodichev's attack on the block, 17:19. Chase? Not, last outbreak of hosts. “Enisey” confidently returns the game to the right direction after a time-out, using elements of luck: Fetzov's discount passes below the cable, Tsepkov forces Panov to throw away the glider, 18:22. The squeeze isn't worth the effort: Nikiforov neither serves nor scores, and the last word belongs to Galimov again, 19:25.

"Gazprom-Ugra" fought as best he could:

Yuri Marinin, senior coach of VC "Enisey": Completed installation, played like this... Basically, the opponent did not surprise us at all. Even when their serve was flying, on the second serve we already managed. They were not allowed to stand for long - this was one of the main tasks: so that Slavi doesn’t have too many aces, his brother has. We did okay, plus they played well on the block, played twice. I don't want to say much right now, anyway everything will be decided in the second game.

Setter of VK "Yenisei" Konstantin Osipov: Good game. We withstood it, what was discussed at the meeting. We didn't run, when in the first game they started to lag a little, withstood the reception. Good, that they withstood it and tried to immediately play at the first tempo. But it's still not over, now is the return game, it will be interesting there too. hope, that everything will also turn out in our favor. Hard to say, what will it be like in Krasnoyarsk, we won here that year too, but at home they gave way. But we will do our best, so that the game remains ours.

Coach of VC Gazprom-Yugra Alexander Chefranov: After the game, probably, almost nothing happened, what they wanted. There was a struggle, but the opponent turned out to be more calm-blooded at some moments. There wasn't a huge gap in the score, some pre-game balls, 2-3 the opponent took away important balls, we are not. But nothing's lost, ahead of the return match in Krasnoyarsk, we'll tune in to it.

There was no attitude to push in at the serve and take risks thoughtlessly, our opponent is tough, so you just had to submit your pitch, good, dense. Somewhere it worked, somewhere not. Personal skill also plays a role, the same setter Konstantin Osipov, he created good conditions for his strikers.

Diagonal VC "Gazprom-Yugra" Kirill Nikiforov: It's difficult to single out just one element, in which we showed ourselves the worst. A little bit everywhere, the game didn't go well on serve either, and on the block, and in defense. A lot of balls dropped, a lot of goals were missed. There is a second game, hope, it will be a little more interesting there.

Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra) 0: 3 Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk)

match stats

Details

Date	Time	Championship
18.03.2026	19:00	CR 2025-2026

Results

Team	1	2	3	GENERAL.
Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)	22	20	19	0
Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk)	25	25	25	3

Venue

g. Surgut / SC "Premier Arena"

Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)

1	2	3	4	5	S	K	E	FACING	B	PTS
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk)

1	2	3	4	5	S	K	E	FACING	B	PTS
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0