WVC Dinamo Moscow () is a Russian professional women's

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club based in

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which is currently playing in the

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. It was established in 1926 and dissolved in 1992, but was reestablished in 2004. It is the most successful team in Soviet women's volleyball history with fourteen Championship titles and the most successful team in the

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history with eleven titles.

History

Soviet years

The club was created in 1926, when Dinamo Moscow decided to establish a women's volleyball section from its sports club. Its first participation in the USSR Championship was 1940, finishing in seventh place. The championship was not held from 1941 until 1944 due to

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, but once it resumed in 1945 the club began achieving success under the coach Nikolay Nikolaevich Benderov, winning the titles in 1947, 1951, 1953, 1954 and 1955. During that period the club also won the USSR Cups of 1950, 1951 and 1953. From 1957 to 1965 the club had a new coach, Serafima Georgievna Kundirenko who took the team to winning the USSR Championships of 1960 and 1962. The introduction of the new premier club competition with clubs from Europe called ''European Cup'' (today known as ''

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''), provided an opportunity for the club to compete against teams from across the continent. Dynamo Moscow won the inaugural 1960–61 edition, as well as the 1962–63 and 1964–65 editions, establishing itself as one of the strongest women's volleyball clubs in Europe. In 1966, under Anatoly Sergeyevich Sarkisov the team won the 1967–68

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.луЬЙ Givi Alexandrovich Akhvlediani became the new coach in 1969, with the goal of making Dynamo Moscow the country's leading team. Under his guidance, Dynamo Moscow brought new players (

Nina Smoleyeva Nina Smoleyeva (born 28 March 1948) is a former volleyball player for the USSR. Smoloyeva was a major player who helped the Soviet Union women's national volleyball team to become the most dominant team in the late 1960s to early 1970s, by winni ...

, Rosa Salikhova, Antonina Ryzhova, Tatyana Tretyakova,

Larisa Bergen Larisa Abramovna Bergen (; 22 September 1949 — 7 April 2023) was a volleyball player for the USSR. She was Jewish, and was born in Nur-Sultan, Akmolinsk, Kazakh SSR. Bergen played for ADK Alma-Ata and VC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow. She wo ...

, Nina Muradyan), employed new tactics and focused on improving technical skills. That lead the club to its most successful period, winning six USSR Championships (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) and seven European Cups (1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1976–77), making Dynamo Moscow the dominant force in European women's volleyball during the late 60's and 1970's. The next head coach was Mikhail Omelchenko. By the 1980s Uralochka began to emerge itself as a dominant force, and Dynamo's winning generation team of the 1970s was ageing. Omelchenko rejuvenated the squad calling new players ( Lyubov Kozyreva, Nataliya Razumova) who helped the club to win the USSR Cup in 1982 and the USSR Championship in 1983. After social and political changes in the USSR, the club could no longer perform at the highest level being relegated at the conclusion of the 1988–89 season. The club kept on playing in the second division for another three seasons and decided to stop its women's volleyball activities in 1992.

Russian years

After a 12-year break, the club was re-established on 12 May 2004. It entered the

in the 2004–05 season and the team proved to be competitive right away, finishing second that year. The success came shortly after the club won the league in the following two seasons (2005–06 and 2006–07) and a third time in 2008–09. Since then, they won four times the Russian Cup (2009, 2011, 2013 and 2018) in the same time they won the Super League in 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19. The club is yet to emulate the Soviet era success in Europe, but it has reached the finals of the

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(in 2005–06) and the

twice (in 2006–07 and in 2008–09).

Honours

National competitions

;USSR *

USSR Championship : 14 :1947, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1983 *

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: 4 :1950, 1951, 1953, 1982 ;Russia *

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: 8 :2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017-18, 2018–19, 2022–23 * Imperial Russian Aviation Roundel

Russian Cup: 6 :2009, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2023 *

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: 4 :2017, 2018, 2021, 2023

International competitions

: 11 : 1960–61, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1976–77

Team roster

''Season 2022–2023, as of June 2022.''

Notable players

* Lyudmila Buldakova * Aleksandra Chudina * Marita Katusheva *

Irina Kirillova Irina Vladimirovna Kirillova (, born 15 May 1965), also known as Irina Parkhomchuk, is a retired competitive volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist for the Soviet Union, later competing for Croatia. Kirillova won a gold medal while repres ...

* Liliya Konovalova * Lyubov Kozyreva * Tatyana Kraynova * Nina Muradyan * Nataliya Razumova * Antonina Ryzhova * Rosa Salikhova * Lyudmila Shchetinina *

* Tatyana Tretyakova * Zoya Yusova * Ekaterina Gamova * Elena Godina * Nataliya Goncharova *

Tatiana Kosheleva Tatiana Sergeyevna Kosheleva (, born 23 December 1988) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russia women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2010 World Championship, the 2013 European Championship and t ...

* Svetlana Kryuchkova * Yulia Merkulova * Maria Perepelkina * Natalia Safronova * Irina Tebenikhina * Anastasiya Kodirova *

Tatiana Gratcheva Tatyana Aleksandrovna Grachova (; born 23 February 1973) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics The ...

* Marina Sheshenina * Maria Borodakova *

Lesya Makhno Lesya Anatolievna Makhno (, ; born 4 September 1981) is a Russian volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's cou ...

Anna Podkopaeva Anna Nicolaevna Podkopaeva (', born 16 April 1990 in Ulyanovsk, née Malova (')) is a Russian volleyball player. She is a member of the Russia women's national volleyball team and participated in several international competitions including: Vol ...

* Irina Fetisova *

Evgeniya Startseva Yevgeniya Aleksandrovna Startseva (; born 12 February 1989) is a volleyball player from Russia. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 2010 World Championship. She represented Russia at the 2012 Olympics. Career St ...

Oksana Parkhomenko Oksana Kurt, also known as Oksana Parkhomenko, (born 28 July 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR); is a retired Azerbaijani indoor volleyball player, recognized as one of the most successful volleyball players in her country. Kurt is the most capped ...

Fernanda Garay Fernanda Garay Rodrigues (born May 10, 1986) is a Brazilian retired professional volleyball player who won the 2012 Summer Olympics gold medal and the silver medal at 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics with the Brazil women's natio ...

* Natalia Pereira *

Nataša Osmokrović Nataša Osmokrović, born 27 May 1976 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is an international Croatian volleyball player who played with Croatia at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Personal life Natasa has a son named Markus and currently lives in Moscow. Career O ...

* Maja Poljak * Sanja Popovic * Yaima Ortiz * Angelina Grün * Carolina Costagrande *

Simona Gioli Simona Gioli (born September 17, 1977, in Rapallo) is a retired volleyball player from Italy. Currently, she plays for Galatasaray in Turkey. Gioli was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2007 European Champions ...

Bethania de la Cruz Bethania de la Cruz de Peña (born May 13, 1987) is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, currently playing for the Omaha Supernovas of the Pro Volleyball Federation. She is best known for winning the gold medal with the Dominican ...

Logan Tom Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981) is an American former indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player, and is the current head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team. She is a four-time Olympian at the outside hitter positi ...

Maja Ognjenović Maja Ognjenović ( sr-Cyrl, Маја Огњеновић; born 6 August 1984) is a Serbian professional volleyball player of the Serbia women's national volleyball team and a two-time Olympic medalist. She is a five-time Olympian at the setter pos ...

* Helena Havelkova * Elitsa Vasileva

References

External links

Official website
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