Russia men's national volleyball team explained

Russia
Nickname:	Reds Caesar Land
Federation:	Russian Volleyball Federation
Confederation:	CEV (suspended)
Coach:	Konstantin Bryanskiyly
Olympic Apps:	14
Olympic First:	1964
Olympic Best:	(1964 (USSR)), (1968 (USSR)), (1980 (USSR)), (2012)
World Champs Apps:	18
World Champs First:	1949
World Champs Best:	1949 (USSR), 1952 (USSR), 1960 (USSR), 1962 (USSR), 1978 (USSR), 1982 (USSR))
World Cup Apps:	11
World Cup First:	1965
World Cup Best:	1965 (USSR), 1977 (USSR), 1981 (USSR), 1991 (USSR), 1999, 2011)
Regional Name:	European Championship
Regional Cup Apps:	28
Regional Cup First:	1950 (as USSR)
Regional Cup Best:	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)
Website:	www.volley.ru
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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

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

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

width=180	Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	width=55	Total
	4	4	3	11
	6	3	3	12
	6	2	2	10
	0	1	0	1
	3	5	7	15
	2	0	0	2
	14	3	5	22
	0	0	1	1
	1	1	0	2
	4	1	3	8
	1	1	0	2
Total	41	21	24	86

Results

Olympic Games

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

Olympic Games record									Qualification
Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30			Round	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30
1964	Final	Gold	9	8	1	25	5		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, World Champions
1968	Final	Gold	9	8	1	26	8		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as defending Olympic Champions
1972	Semifinals	Bronze	7	6	1	19	6		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as defending Olympic Champions
1976	Final	Silver	5	4	1	14	3		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as European Champions
1980	Final	Gold	6	6	0	18	2		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as host country
1984	Boycotted								Boycotted
1988	Final	Silver	7	5	2	18	7		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as World Cup runners-up
1992	Quarterfinals	7th Place	8	4	4	17	15		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, as European Champions
1996	Semifinals	4th Place	8	3	5	11	15		bgcolor=gold	Final	bgcolor=gold	Champions	bgcolor=gold	3	bgcolor=gold	0	bgcolor=gold	9	bgcolor=gold	2
2000	Final	Silver	8	6	2	19	13		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, World Cup champions
2004	Semifinals	Bronze	8	5	3	17	13		bgcolor=gold	Final	bgcolor=gold	Champions	bgcolor=gold	5	bgcolor=gold	0	bgcolor=gold	15	bgcolor=gold	0
2008	Semifinals	Bronze	8	6	2	22	11		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, World Cup runners-up
2012	Final	Gold	8	7	1	21	8		bgcolor=f9f9f9 colspan=6	Qualified, World Cup champions
2016	Semifinals	4th Place	8	5	3	18	12		bgcolor=gold	Final	bgcolor=gold	Champions	bgcolor=gold	4	bgcolor=gold	1	bgcolor=gold	13	bgcolor=gold	5
2020	Final	Silver	8	6	2	21	9		bgcolor=gold	Final	bgcolor=gold	Champions	bgcolor=gold	3	bgcolor=gold	0	bgcolor=gold	9	bgcolor=gold	0
2024	Banned								Banned
2028	Future events
2032
Total	4 Titles	13/14	107	79	28	266	127	—

World Championship

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

World Championship record
Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30
1949	Final Group	Champions	8	8	0	24	2
1952	Final Group	Champions	8	8	0	24	0
1956	Final Group	3rd Place	11	9	2	30	10
1960	Final Group	Champions	10	10	0	24	5
1962	Final Group	Champions	11	11	0	33	6
1966	Final Group	3rd Place	11	7	4	29	15
1970	Final Group	6th Place	11	6	5	22	16
1974	Final Group	2nd Place	11	8	3	27	10
1978	Final Group	Champions	9	9	0	27	3
1982	Final	Champions	9	9	0	27	2
1986	Final	Runners-up	8	7	1	22	5
1990	Semifinals	3rd Place	7	5	2	18	6
1994	Quarterfinals	7th Place	7	4	3	15	11
1998	5th–8th places	5th Place	12	10	2	33	11
2002	Final	Runners-up	9	6	3	21	15
2006	5th–8th semifinals	7th Place	11	8	3	26	10
2010	5th place match	5th place	9	7	2	24	10
2014	5th place match	5th place	12	9	3	30	13
2018	Third round	6th place	13	7	6	23	14
2022	Banned by FIVB
2025
Total	6 Titles	19/19	187	148	39	479	164	—

World Cup

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

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

World Grand Champions Cup

2013 – Silver medal

World League

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place


Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30
	Semifinals	4th Place	14	8	6	29	21
	Semifinals	3rd Place	18	12	6	46	28
	Playoff Round	6th Place	18	10	8	32	28
	Final	Runners-up	22	17	5	54	27
	Final Round	6th Place	14	10	4	34	14
	Final Round	4th Place	17	12	5	43	22
	Final Round	3rd Place	17	15	2	47	17
	Final Round	3rd Place	17	4	15	22	41
	Final	Runners-up	18	13	5	42	25
	Semifinals	4th Place	16	12	4	40	24
	Final	Runners-up	18	12	6	46	24
	Final	3rd Place	17	11	6	41	23
	Final	Champions	17	14	3	45	20
	Final Round	7th Place	15	11	3	36	21
	did not compete
	did not compete
	Semifinals	3rd Place	17	11	6	42	24
	Final	Runners-up	16	12	4	39	17
	Semifinals	3rd Place	16	12	4	39	24
	Semifinals	3rd Place	16	10	6	35	23
	Final	Runners-up	16	13	3	41	27
	Final	Champions	17	16	1	49	13
	Intercontinental Round	8th Place	12	8	4	29	23
	Final	Champions	14	10	4	32	18
	Final Round	5th Place	14	8	6	32	21
	Intercontinental Round	8th Place	12	1	11	11	34
	Intercontinental Round	7th Place	9	5	4	15	14
	Final Round	5th Place	11	5	6	21	22
Total	3 Titles	26/28	408	271	137	910	595	—

Nations League

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place


Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30
	Final	Champions	19	15	4	48	15
	Final	Champions	19	15	4	46	22
	Preliminary	5th place	15	11	4	39	21
	Banned by FIVB

2024
Total	2 Titles	3/6	53	41	12	133	58	—

European Championship

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place


Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30
	did not enter
	Round Robin	Champions	5	5	0	15	0
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	0
	Final Group	4th Place	10	7	3	25	12
	Final Group	3rd Place	11	8	3	29	13
	Final Group	3rd Place	9	6	3	24	16
	Final Group	Champions	10	10	0	30	6
	Final Group	Champions	6	5	1	15	4
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	3
	Final	Champions	7	6	1	19	5
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	3
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	3
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	3
	Final Group	Champions	7	7	0	21	2
	Final	Champions	7	7	0	21	5
	Semifinals	4th Place	7	5	2	17	10
	Final	Champions	7	7	0	21	1
	Semifinals	3rd Place	7	6	1	18	6
	Groups Round	5th Place	7	5	2	18	8
	Groups Round	5th Place	7	4	3	16	9
	Final	Runners-up	5	4	1	13	5
	Semifinals	3rd Place	7	5	2	15	11
	Semifinals	3rd Place	7	7	0	21	4
	Final	Runners-up	7	6	1	20	10
	Final	Runners-up	8	7	1	23	7
	Semifinals	4th Place	8	6	2	20	10
	Semifinals	4th Place	6	4	2	15	8
	Final	Champions	7	6	1	18	7
	Quarter-finals	6th Place	4	3	1	9	4
	Final	Champions	7	7	0	18	2
2019	Quarter-finals	5th Place	7	6	1	19	5
2021	Quarter-finals	7th Place	7	5	2	16	11
Total	14 Titles	30/31	223	189	33	601	193	—

European League

2004 – Silver medal
2005 – Gold medal

Goodwill Games

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place


Year	Round	Position	width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30	width=30
	Final	Champions	5	5	0	15	6
	Final	Runners up	5	3	2	12	8
Total	1 Titles	2/2	10	8	2	27	14

Team

Current squad

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

Head coach: Konstantin Bryanskiy

No.	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2020-21 club
	1.980NaN0	89kg (196lb)	341cm (134inches)	330cm (130inches)	Dinamo Moscow
	2.120NaN0	96kg (212lb)	350cm (140inches)	330cm (130inches)	Zenit Kazan
	2.010NaN0	88kg (194lb)	340cm (130inches)	330cm (130inches)	Fakel Novy Urengoy
	2.070NaN0	89kg (196lb)	360cm (140inches)	350cm (140inches)	Zenit Saint Petersburg
	20NaN0	92kg (203lb)	350cm (140inches)	340cm (130inches)	Fakel Novy Urengoy
	1.980NaN0	90kg (200lb)	345cm (136inches)	330cm (130inches)	Dinamo Moscow
	1.960NaN0	85kg (187lb)	360cm (140inches)	340cm (130inches)	Zenit Saint Petersburg
	2.020NaN0	103kg (227lb)	360cm (140inches)	340cm (130inches)	Zenit Kazan
	2.090NaN0	93kg (205lb)	370cm (150inches)	350cm (140inches)	Zenit Saint Petersburg
20	2.070NaN0	95kg (209lb)	355cm (140inches)	335cm (132inches)	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
24	1.980NaN0	86kg (190lb)	337cm (133inches)	315cm (124inches)	Kuzbass Kemerovo
27	1.90NaN0	70kg (150lb)	310cm (120inches)	305cm (120inches)	Belogorie

Coaches

Viacheslav Platonov (1996–1997)
Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1997–1997)
Gennadiy Shipulin (1998–2004)

Zoran Gajić (2005–2006)
Vladimir Alekno (2007–2008)
Daniele Bagnoli (2009–2010)
Vladimir Alekno (2011–2012)
Andrey Voronkov (2013–2015)
Vladimir Alekno (2015–2016)
Sergey Shlyapnikov (2017–2019)
Tuomas Sammelvuo (2019–2022)
Konstantin Bryanskiy (2022-

Kit providers

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

External links

Notes and References

Web site: These are the sports that Russia has been suspended from . .
Web site: A glance at reaction of sports to Russian invasion . . 3 March 2022 .
Web site: European Volleyball Federation bans Russian, Belarusian teams, officials from European competition .
Web site: Tokyo 2020 Volleyball - Olympic Results by Discipline. olympics.com. 11 August 2021. 15 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815091123/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/volleyball/sport-entries.htm. dead.