Russian women’s Volleyball Championship started yesterday with 7 games played. The current champion Lokomotiv Kaliningrad beat Dinamo Metar Chelyabinsk 3-0, Dinamo Krasnodar defeated Leningradka Sankt Petersburg 3-1 thanks to 27 points by Bogumila Byarda. Enisei Krasnoyarsk beat Minchanka in Minsk 3-2, while Dynamo-Ak Bars won in Nizhny Novgorod 1-3.
Russian Superliga, 1st round
Leningradka St. Petersburg – Dinamo Krasnodar 1-3 (25-20, 15-25, 23-25, 24-26)
Proton Saratov – Indesit Lipetsk 3-2 (23-25, 21-25, 25-17, 25-21, 18-16)
Minchanka Minsk – Enisei Krasnoyarsk 2-3 (22-25, 18-25, 25-20, 25-20, 12-15)
Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg – Tulitsa Tula 2-3 (25-15, 22-25, 25-9, 23-25, 6-15)
Dinamo Moscow – Zarechie Odintsovo 3-0 (25-15, 25-21, 25-12)
Lokomotiv Kaliningrad – Dinamo Metar Chelyabinsk 3-0 (25-6, 25-17, 25-15)
Sparta Nizhny Novgorod – Dinamo-Ak Bars Kazan 1-3 (11-25, 20-25, 25-23, 10-25)
