WBC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian professional women's

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club playing in the

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. Founded in 1923, in the early stages of the Soviet Championship, it won its first 6 seasons and 5 more titles up to 1958. Dynamo culminated this era reaching in 1959 the final of the inaugural edition of the

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, which they lost to

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Four decades later Dynamo emerged briefly as the leading Russian team, winning four Russian Championships in a row and reaching the

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's Final Four in 2000. While the team gradually declined in subsequent years, in 2007 it won the EuroCup, its first international

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trophy.

Personnel and staff

* Tatiana Nikolaevna Ovechkina serves as the president * Potapov Andrey Valerievich serves as head coach * Zhigil Vladimir Vladimirovich serves as an assistant coach

Honours

EuroCup: 2007, 2013, 2014 * USSR Championship: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958 * Russian Super League A: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

Former players

References

External links

Official website

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