Gift victory

"Orenburg" (Orenburg): Kupryashkin – Zubov, Tkachenko - Rudych, Yutsevich – Kudryashov, Maksimenko/Laptev

"Gazprom-Ugra" (Surgut): Kirillov - Nikiforov, Demakov - Andreev, Serov – Panov, Eremin/Moiseev

Alexa Brdzhovich respects Rafael Khabibullin so much, that I gave him a game. Sure, it's a joke, but every joke has some truth. In our case, it lies in the huge number of the hosts’ own mistakes in attack, and at decisive moments.

In the opening of the match, the Surgut team took the breaking advantage with Nikiforov's ace - he is unlikely to appear in the statistics, because Kupryashkin almost jumped onto the pole, to make a second touch after an unsuccessful reception. Then a brilliant overture was issued in defense, and Demakov earned another break point for the team, 9:6.

If Nikiforov had not skidded, we would develop success, but Cyril was twice wrong. Fortunately, Serov scored his first ace, and Panov completed another team effort in defense - the rally is worthy of highlights, 15:12. After the pancake, Kirillov kicked the ball off the side, but Kudryashov still scored through touch, 15:17. Rodichev comes on instead of Panov and remains on the court until the end of the game..

It seemed, that the owners will still fight, but Yutsevich finds out twice in attack (20:15), and Serov hits the second ace, 23:17. At the end of the day, Zubov scores a point with a serve through a rebound off the rope, but that’s all – Demakov closes the set, 25:20.

At the beginning of the second set, the groundwork is made by a block (Kudryashov closed twice), and Serov’s third ace into the empty first zone, 5:2. Kirillov visually sends the passing ball now into the empty fifth zone, but the quality of Maxim’s pass is not so hot – Ivanov replaces him. Serov scores the fourth ace, Ivanov also does not give Nikiforov an exchange and provokes a quick return of Kirillov at the score 13:11.

The owners are clinging, Kirillov is once again ferocious in defense, Galota replaces Nikiforov, Reduces teeth to a minimum, 16:15. Then the teams exchange views - both in favor of the guests: Serov scored in the front line, and Zubov did not find the touch of the block. And then Serov covers Zubov one on one, 19:15. This gap was aggravated by Yutsevich's shot into touch (21:16) and Tkachenko’s shot there (24:18). Tkachenko managed to correct himself, but Morozov, who came on a little earlier instead of Zubov, sent it into the net, 25:19.

The beginning of the third game brought back bad memories of the game in Ufa, 0:3. Fortunately, Rafael Khabibullin disagreed with this development of events, who noticed a microscopic touch of the net from Rudich, which was confirmed by the video review. So 0:3 turned into 1:2 and the swing game started.

Galote, remaining on site, brings the guests forward with an ace, 6:5. .Here's a new failure: on a lame move, Kirillov is forced to attack twice - twice to block, and between these episodes Zubov took revenge on Serov with a single block, 7:10.

The situation evens out again on Andreev’s serves. At first, Ubiparip cannot cope with a simple glider, and then the block slams the sky in front of Zubov, 13:13. On the Morozov site, and Ubiparip, in search of contact, sends the ball parallel to the floor - in vain. Another session of defensive brilliance against Gazprom-Yugra leads to Nikiforov patiently playing back from the block, 15:13.

It would seem that it’s the owners’ turn to present arguments. There was still an ace from Ubiparip in the bins, 15:15. But then the Orenburg team got a portion of the most massive attack in the match, who buried them. Morozov covers himself in slippers, Yutsevich hits out - 18:15. Rudic and again Jucevic off the pitch, 21:17. Yutsevich is replaced by Kudryashov, but he also misses the platform, 23:17. Kupryashkin scores a match ball for the visitors with an out-of-bounds serve., and Serov puts an end to winning back from the block in the final game, 25:18.

The three-point victory couldn't have come at a better time., but the quality of the game needs to be improved, if we want to count on something in the home match with Dynamo-LO. I'm not sure at all, that someone else would be so gracious in giving us glasses. You need to add aggression and accuracy yourself. Our attack didn't look convincing today, which largely depended on the quality of the pass, there were also an over-the-limit number of service errors. But I liked the game in the block protection section, Well, they acted tactically competently, according to the situation.

Orenburg region (Orenburg) 0: 3 Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)

match stats

Details

Date	Time	Championship
08.11.2026	16:30	CR 2026-2027

Results

Team	1	2	3	GENERAL.
Orenburg region (Orenburg)	20	19	18	0
Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)	25	25	25	3

Venue

g. Orenburg

Orenburg region (Orenburg)

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

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