Morning Glory – Ipomoea

The Russia women's national volleyball team is governed by the Russian Volleyball Federation and participated in international volleyball competitions. They played from 1949 to 1991 as the Soviet Union and as the CIS in 1992.

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.^[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]

Major world titles

USSR

Year	Games	Host	Runners-up	3rd place
1952	1st World Championship	Soviet Union	Poland	Czechoslovakia
1956	2nd World Championship	France	Romania	Poland
1960	3rd World Championship	Brazil	Japan	Czechoslovakia
1968^#	19th Olympic Games	Mexico	Japan	Poland
1970^#	6th World Championship	Bulgaria	Japan	North Korea
1972^#	20th Olympic Games	West Germany	Japan	North Korea
1973^#	1st World Cup	Uruguay	Japan	South Korea
1980	22nd Olympic Games	Soviet Union	East Germany	Bulgaria
1988	24th Olympic Games	South Korea	Peru	China
1990	11th World Championship	China	China	United States

^# – 4 major titles in row in late 1960s - early 1970s (World Women's Volleyball Championship, World Cup, Olympic Games)

Russia

Year	Games	Host	Runners-up	3rd place
2006	15th World Championship	Japan	Brazil	Serbia
2010	16th World Championship	Japan	Brazil	Japan

Results

Olympic Games

Soviet Union

1964 – Silver medal
1968 – Gold medal
1972 – Gold medal
1976 – Silver medal
1980 – Gold medal
1988 – Gold medal

Unified Team

1992 – Silver medal

Russia

1996 – 4th place
2000 – Silver medal
2004 – Silver medal
2008 – 5th place (tied)
2012 – 5th place (tied)
2016 – 5th place (tied)

ROC

2020 – 7th place

FIVB World Championship

Soviet Union

1952 – Gold medal
1956 – Gold medal
1960 – Gold medal
1962 – Silver medal
1970 – Gold medal
1974 – Silver medal
1978 – Bronze medal
1982 – 6th place
1986 – 6th place
1990 – Gold medal

Russia

1994 – Bronze medal
1998 – Bronze medal
2002 – Bronze medal
2006 – Gold medal
2010 – Gold medal
2014 – 5th place
2018 – 8th place
2022 – Banned by FIVB

FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup

1993 – Bronze medal
1997 – Gold medal
2001 – Silver medal
2013 – 4th place
2017 – 4th place

FIVB World Cup

Soviet Union

1973 – Gold medal
1977 – 7th place (tied)
1981 – Bronze medal
1985 – Bronze medal
1989 – Silver medal
1991 – Bronze medal

Russia

1999 – Silver medal
2015 – 4th place
2019 – Bronze medal

FIVB World Grand Prix

Russia

1993 – Bronze medal
1994 – 7th place
1995 – 6th place
1996 – Bronze medal
1997 – Gold medal
1998 – Silver medal
1999 – Gold medal
2000 – Silver medal
2001 – Bronze medal
2002 – Gold medal
2003 – Silver medal
2004 – 7th place
2006 – Silver medal
2007 – 4th place
2009 – Silver medal
2011 – 4th place
2013 – 7th place
2014 – Bronze medal
2015 – Silver medal
2016 – 4th place
2017 – 9th place

FIVB Nations League

Russia

2018 – 7th place
2019 – 14th place
2021 – 8th place
2022 – Banned by FIVB
2023 – Banned by FIVB

European Championship

Soviet Union

1949 – Gold medal
1950 – Gold medal
1951 – Gold medal
1955 – Silver medal
1958 – Gold medal
1963 – Gold medal
1967 – Gold medal
1971 – Gold medal
1975 – Gold medal
1977 – Gold medal
1979 – Gold medal
1981 – Silver medal
1983 – Silver medal
1985 – Gold medal
1987 – Silver medal
1989 – Gold medal
1991 – Gold medal

Russia

1993 – Gold medal
1995 – Bronze medal
1997 – Gold medal
1999 – Gold medal
2001 – Gold medal
2003 – 5th place
2005 – Bronze medal
2007 – Bronze medal
2009 – 6th place
2011 – 6th place
2013 – Gold medal
2015 – Gold medal
2017 – 6th place
2019 – 7th place
2021 – 6th place

Current squad

The following is the Russian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup.^[4]

Head coach: Sergio Busato

No.	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2019 club
1	Angelina Lazarenko	23 April 1998	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	320 cm (130 in)	305 cm (120 in)	Volero Le Cannet
3	Ekaterina Efimova	3 July 1993	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	295 cm (116 in)	Dynamo Moscow
4	Daria Chikrizova	9 June 1990	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	69 kg (152 lb)	185 cm (73 in)	180 cm (71 in)	Dinamo-Metar Chelyabinsk
6	Irina Zaryazhko	4 October 1991	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Dynamo Kazan
7	Tatiana Romanova	9 September 1994	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	64 kg (141 lb)	292 cm (115 in)	285 cm (112 in)	Uralochka-NTMK
8	Nataliya Goncharova	1 June 1989	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	306 cm (120 in)	Dynamo Moscow
9	Alla Galkina	15 April 1992	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	65 kg (143 lb)	295 cm (116 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Lokomotiv Kaliningrad
11	Margarita Kurilo	21 June 1993	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	304 cm (120 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
13	Yevgeniya Startseva (c)	12 February 1989	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	68 kg (150 lb)	294 cm (116 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Dynamo Kazan
16	Irina Voronkova	20 October 1995	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Lokomotiv Kaliningrad
18	Ksenia Parubets	31 October 1994	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	64 kg (141 lb)	300 cm (120 in)	286 cm (113 in)	Uralochka-NTMK
19	Maria Khaletskaia	31 July 1994	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	311 cm (122 in)	302 cm (119 in)	Dinamo Krasnodar
25	Yulia Brovkina	31 May 2001	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	297 cm (117 in)	Lokomotiv Kaliningrad
26	Anna Lazareva	31 January 1997	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	67 kg (148 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	300 cm (120 in)	Dynamo Moscow

References

^ "These are the sports that Russia has been suspended from". CNN.
^ "A glance at reaction of sports to Russian invasion". Associated Press. 3 March 2022.
^ "European Volleyball Federation bans Russian, Belarusian teams, officials from European competition".
^ "Team Roster – Russia". FIVB. 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.

External links

[1] "These are the sports that Russia has been suspended from". CNN.

[2] "A glance at reaction of sports to Russian invasion". Associated Press. 3 March 2022.

[3] "European Volleyball Federation bans Russian, Belarusian teams, officials from European competition".

[4] "Team Roster – Russia". FIVB. 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.

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Women's national volleyball teams of Europe (CEV)
BVA (Sv)	Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Greece Kosovo Malta Moldova Montenegro North Macedonia Romania Serbia Turkey
EEVZA (Pl)	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Estonia Georgia Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia Ukraine
MEVZA (Sv)	Austria Czech Republic Cyprus Croatia Hungary Israel Slovakia Slovenia
NEVZA (Sv)	Denmark England Finland Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland Norway Sweden
WEVZA (Sv)	Belgium France Italy Germany Netherlands Portugal Switzerland Spain
SCA (Sv)	Andorra Faroe Islands Gibraltar Greenland Ireland Iceland Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Monaco Northern Ireland San Marino Scotland Wales
Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany Serbia and Montenegro Soviet Union Yugoslavia Great Britain (Inactive)