The Russian Volleyball Super League 2008/2009 is the 18th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League. In all there are 12 teams.
| Previous season 2007/2008 | Team | Town | Arena (capacity) | Website | Head Coach | Foreign players (max. 2) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo | Moscow | Dynamo Sports Palace (5 000) | www.vcdynamo.ru |  Daniele Bagnoli |  Dante Amaral Alexis Gonzalez | |
| 2 | Iskra | Odintsovo | Volleyball Sportiv Complex (3 500) | iskravolley.com |  Zoran Gajić | Giba Jochen Schöps | |
| 3 | Zenit | Kazan | Basket-Hall Arena (7 000) | www.zenit-kazan.com |  Vladimir Alekno |  Lloy Ball Clay Stanley | |
| 4 | Lokomotiv | Novosibirsk | SKK Sever (2 500) | www.lokovolley.ru | Vladimir Babakin | William Priddy Héctor Soto | |
| 5 | Lokomotiv-Belogorie | Belgorod | Sports Palace Cosmos (5 000) | www.belogorievolley.ru | Genadiy Shipulin | Guntars Celitans Alan Barbosa Domingos Richard Lambourne | |
| 6 | Ural | Ufa | FOC Neftyanik Bashkortostana | www.volleyufa.ru | Yuriy Marichev | Gabriel Gardner Péter Veres | |
| 7 | Fakel | Novy Urengoy | CSC Gazodobytchik (800) | www.fakelvolley.ru | Boris Kolchin | Sean Rooney Kevin Hansen | |
| 8 | Gazprom-Yugra | Surgutsky district | SC Tennis Center | gazprom-ugra.ru | Rafael Habibullin | Dömötör Mészáros Sasa Gadnik Christian Pampel (until September) | |
| 9 | Yaroslavich | Yaroslavl | SK Atlant | www.yarvolley.ru | Roberto Serniotti |  Dallas Soonias Frederick Winters | |
| 10 | Yugra-Samotlor | Niznevartovsk | SC Neftaynik (2000) | www.ugra-samotlor.ru | Yuriy Korotkevich |  Sergey Shulga | |
| Promoted | Nova | Novokuybyshevsk | SC Octan | www.novavolley.narod.ru | Aleksandr Cherny | Cristian Casoli Kostadin Stoykov | |
| Promoted | Metalloinvest | Stary Oskol | www.belogorievolley.ru | Andrey Ivanov |
| width=35 | Rank | width=220 | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zenit Kazan | |||
| Iskra Odintsovo | |||
| Fakel Novyi Urengoi | |||
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | ||
| 5 | Lokomotiv Belogorie | ||
| 6 | Lokomotiv Novosibirsk | ||
| 7 | Ural Ufa | ||
| 8 | Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district | ||
| 9 | Yaroslavich Yaroslavl | ||
| 10 | Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk | ||
| 11 | Metalloinvest Stary Oskol | ||
| 12 | NOVA Novokuybyshevsk |