The participants include all the teams that have not reached the quarterfinals of the playoffs except for Belarusian Stroitel Minsk that having been invited as a foreign team.
Among the surprising results of the first day is the defeat of Kuzbass Kemerovo against Automobilist St. Petersburg.
In the other 2 games won Yaroslavich and Fakel of Busato.
Round Robin: 1. day (March 6)
Fakel Novy Urengoy – Lokomotiv Izumrud Ekaterinburg 3:0 (25:21, 25:21, 25:18)
Top Scorer: Krasikov 16, Titich 16, Astashenkov 9, Kritskiy 8; Egorov 10, Smolyar 8, Petrov 7, Choulepov 6
Yaroslavich Yaroslavl – Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod 3:2 (23:25, 30:28, 25:22, 22:25, 15:13)
Top Scorer: Beketov 17, Winters 15, Yudin 14, Filippov 12; Tyurin 23, N. Kovacevic 21, Mochalov 17, Ma. Oivanen 16
Kuzbass Kemerovo – Automobilist St. Petersburg 1:3 (25:12, 19:25, 23:25, 16:25)
Top Scorer: Moroz 23, Tuia 12, Sherbakov 12, Andrae 11; Parkhuta 21, Skoriy 11, Chervyakov 8, Vilchev 8
Rest: Belgorod Belogorie
Cassification
1. Fakel Novy Urengoy 3 (1-0)
2. Automobilist St. Petersburg 3 (1-0)
3. Yaroslavich Yaroslavl 2 (1-0)
4. Nizhny Novgorod Gubernia 1 (0-1)
5. Belogorie Belgorod 0 (0-0)
6. Kuzbass Kemerovo 0 (0-1)
7. Lokomotiv Izumrud Ekaterinburg 0 (0-1)
The program of the 2nd day (March 7)
Lokomotiv Izumrud Ekaterinburg – Yaroslavich Yaroslavl
Automobilist St. Petersburg – Novy Urengoy Fakel
Belogorie Belgorod – Kuzbass Kemerovo