Russia men's national volleyball team

Russia
Nickname(s)Reds Caesar Land
AssociationRussian Volleyball Federation
Head coachRussia Konstantin Bryanskiyly
FIVB rankingNR (as of 10 July 2024)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Third
Summer Olympics
Appearances14 (First in 1964)
Best resultGold (1964 (USSR)), (1968 (USSR)), (1980 (USSR)), (2012)
World Championship
Appearances18 (First in 1949)
Best resultGold 1949 (USSR), 1952 (USSR), 1960 (USSR), 1962 (USSR), 1978 (USSR), 1982 (USSR))
World Cup
Appearances11 (First in 1965)
Best result 1965 (USSR), 1977 (USSR), 1981 (USSR), 1991 (USSR), 1999, 2011)
European Championship
Appearances28 (First in 1950 (as USSR))
Best resultGold 1950 (USSR), 1951 (USSR), 1967 (USSR), 1971 (USSR), 1975 (USSR), 1977 (USSR), 1979 (USSR), 1981 (USSR), 1983 (USSR), 1985 (USSR), 1987 (USSR), 1991 (USSR), 2013, 2017)
www.volley.ru (in Russian)
Honours
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Team (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City Team (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow Team (URS)
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
Silver medal – second place 1976 Montreal Team (URS)
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul Team (URS)
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Munich Team (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1949 Czechoslovakia (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1952 Soviet Union (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1960 Brazil (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1962 Soviet Union (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1978 Italy (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1982 Argentina (URS)
Silver medal – second place 1974 Mexico (URS)
Silver medal – second place 1986 France (URS)
Silver medal – second place 2002 Argentina
Bronze medal – third place 1956 France (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1966 Czechoslovakia (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Brazil (URS)
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1965 Poland (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1977 Japan (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1981 Japan (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1991 Japan (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1999 Japan
Gold medal – first place 2011 Japan
Silver medal – second place 1985 Japan (URS)
Silver medal – second place 2007 Japan
Bronze medal – third place 1969 East Germany (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Japan (URS)
World Grand Champions Cup
Silver medal – second place 2013 Japan
World League
Gold medal – first place 2002 Belo Horizonte
Gold medal – first place 2011 Gdańsk
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mar del Plata
Silver medal – second place 1993 São Paulo
Silver medal – second place 1998 Milan
Silver medal – second place 2000 Rotterdam
Silver medal – second place 2007 Katowice
Silver medal – second place 2010 Córdoba
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Milan (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Rotterdam
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Moscow
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Katowice
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Moscow
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Rio de Janeiro
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Belgrade
Nations League
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lille
Gold medal – first place 2019 Chicago
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1950 Bulgaria (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1951 France (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1967 Turkey (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1971 Italy (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1975 Yugoslavia (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1977 Finland (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1979 France (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1981 Bulgaria (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1983 East Germany (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1985 Netherlands (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1987 Belgium (URS)
Gold medal – first place 1991 Germany (URS)
Gold medal – first place 2013 Denmark/Poland
Gold medal – first place 2017 Poland
Silver medal – second place 1999 Austria
Silver medal – second place 2005 Italy/Serbia and Montenegro
Silver medal – second place 2007 Russia
Bronze medal – third place 1958 Czechoslovakia (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Romania (URS)
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Finland
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Czech Republic
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Germany
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Team
European League
Gold medal – first place 2005 Kazan
Silver medal – second place 2004 Opava
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2009 Belgrade Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Shenzhen Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Gwangju Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Taipei Team
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Sicily Team
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Beijing Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Naples Team
Goodwill Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Moscow Team
Silver medal – second place 1990 Seattle Team

The Russia men's national volleyball team is governed by the Russian Volleyball Federation and took part in international volleyball competitions.

FIVB considers Russia as the inheritor of the records of Soviet Union (1948–1991) and CIS (1992). The USSR Volleyball Federation joined the FIVB in 1948, a year after the foundation of the international governing body. The following year they sent a team to compete in the first FIVB Men’s World Championship and have been dominating the international scene ever since, having won six World Championships, four Olympic Games, six World Cups and 14 European Championships (medals of Russian and the Soviet union combined).

History

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The USSR Volleyball Federation joined the FIVB in 1948, and the following year they sent a team to compete in the first World Championship.[citation needed]

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Volleyball Federation suspended all Russian national teams, clubs, and officials, as well as beach and snow volleyball athletes, from all events, and stripped Russia of the right to host the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in August 2022, and has relocated 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League games that were to be in Russia in August and September.[1][2] The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) also banned all Russian national teams, clubs, and officials from participating in European competition, and suspended all members of Russia from their respective functions in CEV organs.[3]

Medals

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Event Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympic Games 4 4 3 11
World Championship 6 3 3 12
World Cup 6 2 2 10
World Grand Champions Cup 0 1 0 1
World League 3 5 7 15
Nations League 2 0 0 2
European Championship 14 3 5 22
European Games 0 0 1 1
European League 1 1 0 2
Summer Univesiade 4 1 3 8
Goodwill Games 1 1 0 2
Total 41 21 24 86

Results

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Olympic Games

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  Champions    Runners up    Third place    Fourth place

World Championship

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  Champions    Runners up    Third place    Fourth place

World Championship record
Year Round Position GP MW ML SW SL Squad
Czechoslovakia 1949 Final Group Champions 8 8 0 24 2 Squad
Soviet Union 1952 Final Group Champions 8 8 0 24 0 Squad
France 1956 Final Group 3rd Place 11 9 2 30 10 Squad
Brazil 1960 Final Group Champions 10 10 0 24 5 Squad
Soviet Union 1962 Final Group Champions 11 11 0 33 6 Squad
Czechoslovakia 1966 Final Group 3rd Place 11 7 4 29 15 Squad
Bulgaria 1970 Final Group 6th Place 11 6 5 22 16 Squad
Mexico 1974 Final Group 2nd Place 11 8 3 27 10 Squad
Italy 1978 Final Group Champions 9 9 0 27 3 Squad
Argentina 1982 Final Champions 9 9 0 27 2 Squad
France 1986 Final Runners-up 8 7 1 22 5 Squad
Brazil 1990 Semifinals 3rd Place 7 5 2 18 6 Squad
Greece 1994 Quarterfinals 7th Place 7 4 3 15 11 Squad
Japan 1998 5th–8th places 5th Place 12 10 2 33 11 Squad
Argentina 2002 Final Runners-up 9 6 3 21 15 Squad
Japan 2006 5th–8th semifinals 7th Place 11 8 3 26 10 Squad
Italy 2010 5th place match 5th place 9 7 2 24 10 Squad
Poland 2014 5th place match 5th place 12 9 3 30 13 Squad
Italy Bulgaria 2018 Third round 6th place 13 7 6 23 14 Squad
Poland Slovenia 2022 Banned by FIVB
Philippines 2025
Total 6 Titles 19/19 187 148 39 479 164 —

World Cup

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  Champions    Runners up    Third place    Fourth place

World Cup record
Year Round Position GP MW ML SW SL Squad
Poland 1965 Champions 7 6 1 20 7 Squad
East Germany 1969 3rd Place 6 4 2 13 8 Squad
Japan 1977 Champions 8 7 1 23 5 Squad
Japan 1981 Round Robin Champions 7 7 0 21 2 Squad
Japan 1985 Round Robin Runners-up 7 5 2 18 8 Squad
Japan 1989 Round Robin 3rd Place 7 5 2 16 11 Squad
Japan 1991 Round Robin Champions 8 7 1 22 4 Squad
Japan 1995 did not participate
Japan 1999 Round Robin Champions 11 9 2 31 11 Squad
Japan 2003 did not participate
Japan 2007 Round Robin Runners-up 11 9 2 29 9 Squad
Japan 2011 Round Robin Champions 11 10 1 30 8 Squad
Japan 2015 Round Robin 4th place 11 8 3 25 12 Squad
Japan 2019 Round Robin 6th place 11 5 6 20 23 Squad
Total 6 Titles 12/14 105 82 23 268 108 —

World Grand Champions Cup

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  • 2013 – 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver medal

European Championship

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  Champions    Runners up    Third place    Fourth place

European Championship record
Year Round Position GP MW ML SW SL Squad
Italy 1948 did not enter
Bulgaria 1950 Round Robin Champions 5 5 0 15 0 Squad
France 1951 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 0 Squad
Romania 1955 Final Group 4th Place 10 7 3 25 12 Squad
Czechoslovakia 1958 Final Group 3rd Place 11 8 3 29 13 Squad
Romania 1963 Final Group 3rd Place 9 6 3 24 16 Squad
Turkey 1967 Final Group Champions 10 10 0 30 6 Squad
Italy 1971 Final Group Champions 6 5 1 15 4 Squad
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1975 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 3 Squad
Finland 1977 Final Champions 7 6 1 19 5 Squad
France 1979 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 3 Squad
Bulgaria 1981 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 3 Squad
East Germany 1983 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 3 Squad
Netherlands 1985 Final Group Champions 7 7 0 21 2 Squad
Belgium 1987 Final Champions 7 7 0 21 5 Squad
Sweden 1989 Semifinals 4th Place 7 5 2 17 10 Squad
Germany 1991 Final Champions 7 7 0 21 1 Squad
Finland 1993 Semifinals 3rd Place 7 6 1 18 6 Squad
Greece 1995 Groups Round 5th Place 7 5 2 18 8 Squad
Netherlands 1997 Groups Round 5th Place 7 4 3 16 9 Squad
Austria 1999 Final Runners-up 5 4 1 13 5 Squad
Czech Republic 2001 Semifinals 3rd Place 7 5 2 15 11 Squad
Germany 2003 Semifinals 3rd Place 7 7 0 21 4 Squad
Italy 2005 Final Runners-up 7 6 1 20 10 Squad
Russia 2007 Final Runners-up 8 7 1 23 7 Squad
Turkey 2009 Semifinals 4th Place 8 6 2 20 10 Squad
AustriaCzech Republic 2011 Semifinals 4th Place 6 4 2 15 8 Squad
DenmarkPoland 2013 Final Champions 7 6 1 18 7 Squad
BulgariaItaly 2015 Quarter-finals 6th Place 4 3 1 9 4 Squad
Poland 2017 Final Champions 7 7 0 18 2 Squad
BelgiumFranceNetherlandsSlovenia 2019 Quarter-finals 5th Place 7 6 1 19 5 Squad
Czech RepublicEstoniaFinlandPoland 2021 Quarter-finals 7th Place 7 5 2 16 11 Squad
ItalyBulgariaNorth MacedoniaIsrael 2023 Banned by FIVB
BulgariaFinlandItalyRomania 2026
Total 14 Titles 30/33 223 189 33 601 193 —


European League

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  • 2004 – 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver medal
  • 2005 – 1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold medal

Goodwill Games

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  Champions    Runners up    Third place    Fourth place

Goodwill Games record
Year Round Position GP MW ML SW SL
Soviet Union 1986 Final Champions 5 5 0 15 6
United States 1990 Final Runners up 5 3 2 12 8
Total 1 Titles 2/2 10 8 2 27 14

Team

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2020 squad

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The following was the Russian roster in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]

Head coach: Konstantin Bryanskiy

No. Name Date of birth Height Weight Spike Block 2020-21 club
1 Yaroslav Podlesnykh 3 September 1994 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 341 cm (134 in) 330 cm (130 in) Russia Dinamo Moscow
4 Artem Volvich 22 June 1990 2.12 m (6 ft 11 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 350 cm (140 in) 330 cm (130 in) Russia Zenit Kazan
7 Dmitry Volkov 25 May 1995 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 340 cm (130 in) 330 cm (130 in) Russia Fakel Novy Urengoy
9 Ivan Iakovlev 17 April 1995 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 360 cm (140 in) 350 cm (140 in) Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg
10 Denis Bogdan 13 October 1996 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 350 cm (140 in) 340 cm (130 in) Russia Fakel Novy Urengoy
11 Pavel Pankov 14 August 1995 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 90 kg (200 lb) 345 cm (136 in) 330 cm (130 in) Russia Dinamo Moscow
15 Viktor Poletaev 27 July 1995 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 360 cm (140 in) 340 cm (130 in) Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg
17 Maxim Mikhaylov 19 March 1988 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 360 cm (140 in) 340 cm (130 in) Russia Zenit Kazan
18 Egor Kliuka 15 June 1995 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 370 cm (150 in) 350 cm (140 in) Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg
20 Ilyas Kurkaev 18 January 1994 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 355 cm (140 in) 335 cm (132 in) Russia Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
24 Igor Kobzar (C) 13 April 1991 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 337 cm (133 in) 315 cm (124 in) Russia Kuzbass Kemerovo
27 Valentin Golubev 3 May 1992 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 70 kg (150 lb) 310 cm (120 in) 305 cm (120 in) Russia Belogorie

Coaches

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Russia team in final World League 2011

Kit providers

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The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Russia national volleyball team.

Period Kit provider
2000– Champion
Mizuno

References

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  1. ^ "These are the sports that Russia has been suspended from". CNN.
  2. ^ "A glance at reaction of sports to Russian invasion". Associated Press. 3 March 2022.
  3. ^ "European Volleyball Federation bans Russian, Belarusian teams, officials from European competition".
  4. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Volleyball - Olympic Results by Discipline". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
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