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

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as the inheritor of the records of

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(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

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, four

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, six World Cups and 14

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(medals of Russian and the Soviet union combined).

History

The

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Volleyball Federation joined the FIVB in 1948,0 and the following year they sent a team to compete in the first World Championship. In response to the

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, the

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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

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games that were to be in Russia in August and September. The

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(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.

Medals

Results

Olympic Games

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

World Championship

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

World Cup

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

World Grand Champions Cup

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– Silver medal

World League

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

Nations League

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

European Championship

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

European League

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– Silver medal *

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– Gold medal

Goodwill Games

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

Team

Current squad

The following is the Russian roster in the

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. Head coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo

Coaches

* Viacheslav Platonov (1996–1997) *

Vyacheslav Zaytsev Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Zaytsev (russian: Вячеслав Алексеевич Зайцев, born 12 November 1952) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics, in the 1980 Summer Olympics, ...

(1997–1997) * Gennadiy Shipulin (1998–2004) World League Final 2011 (5927914994)

Zoran Gajić Zoran Gajić ( sr-cyrl, Зоран Гајић; born 28 December 1958) is a Serbian volleyball coach serving as minister of sports since 2022. As a volleyball coach, he coached Rabita Baku, and FR Yugoslavia, Ira ...

(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) *

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(2022-

Kit providers

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

References

External links

Official websiteFIVB profile
{{Men's European Volleyball Championship winners National men's volleyball teams M