Zenit
It seems that each season in Russia, the distance between Zenit Kazan and the rest of the league increases. There is another characteristic of the Superliga in the last few seasons – a number of foreign players is getting smaller. Nevertheless, just like last season, Dinamo Moscow will be the main contender to Zenit, while Lokomotiv, Belogorie, Yenisei and Kuzbass are lurking in the sidelines.
Comparing to previous season, Russian Championship will have one newcomer – Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast – who replaced Nizhniy Novgorod.
Check out new format of the Superliga in the season 2016/17.
Also, see the Top 20 Men’s transfers in Russia.
ALL MEN’S SUPERLIGA TRANSFERS AND ROSTERS FOR 2016/2017 (schedule)
Signings: Krotkov (Samotlor), Volvich and Zemchenok (Novosibirsk), Melnik (Krasnodar).
Departures: Spiridonov (Yenisei), Kuleshov (?), Poletaev (Kuzbass), Alekno (?), Sarlybaev (?), Babichev (Academy Kazan, Division 2).
Setters: Aleksandr Butko, Igor Kobzar; Opposites: Denis Zemchenok, Maksim Mikhaylov; Receivers: Matthew Anderson (USA), Evgeniy Sivozhelez, Wilfredo León (CUB), Vladimir Melnik; Middle blockers: Ivan Demakov, Artem Volvich, Andrey Ashchev, Aleksandr Gutsalyuk; Liberos: Valentin Krotkov, Teodor Salparov (BUL), Aleksey Verbov; Coach: Vladimir Alekno.
Signings: Bakun (Yugra), Ilinykh (Al Rayyan, QAT), Ostapenko (Novosibirsk), Antipkin and Bragin (Belogorie).
Departures: Zaytsev (Perugia, ITA), Holt (Modena, ITA), Boldyrev (Nova), Pankov (Kuzbass).
Setters: Sergey Antipkin, Sergey Grankin; Opposites: Konstantin Bakun, Pavel Kruglov; Receivers: Denis Biryukov, Yuriy Berezhko, Aleksandr Markin, Dmitriy Ilinykh; Middle blockers: Aleksey Ostapenko, Igor Filippov, Dmitriy Shcherbinin; Liberos: Artem Ermakov, Roman Bragin; Coach: Oleg Antonov.
Signings: Zhigalov (Kuzbass), Iereshchenko, Podlesnykh and Fomenko (Samotlor), Bagrey (Krasnodar), Poroshin (Tehnolog, Division 3), Dragunov (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast, Division 2), Teremenko (Kharkiv, UKR).
Departures: Kosarev and Khamuttskikh (retired), Ivović (Resovia, POL), Krasikov (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast), Khanipov (Ural), Antipkin and Bragin (Dinamo Moscow), Lesik (Al Zahra, LIB), Safonov (Arcada, ROU).
Setters: Roman Poroshin, Sergey Bagrey; Opposites: Roman Danilov, Maksim Zhigalov; Receivers: Anton Fomenko, Taras Khtey, Sergey Tetyukhin, Yaroslav Podlesnykh, Ian Iereshchenko (UKR); Middle blockers: Dmytro Teremenko (UKR), Artem Smolyar, German Snegirov, Dmitriy Muserskiy; Liberos: Roman Martinyuk, Grigoriy Dragunov; Coach: Genadiy Shipulin.
Signings: Panchenko (youth team), Kupryazhkin (Saranskkabel, Division 3), Nosenko (Atyrau, KAZ), Ursov (Kristall, Division 2), Taranyuk (youth team), Krsmanović (UPCN, ARG), Luchin (Torpedo, Division 2), Beskrovniy (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast, Division 2), Fazulov (YUKIOR, Division 3).
Departures: Zaytsev (?), Bakun (Dinamo Moscow), Apalikov (Kuzbass), Astashenkov (?), Getman and Kabeshov (Ural).
Setters: Aleksa Brdjović (SRB), Maksim Panchenko, Vladimir Kupryazhkin; Opposites: Aleksandr Chefranov, Vasiliy Nosenko; Receivers: Aleksey Rodichev, Vitaliy Taranyuk, Ruslan Askerov, Anton Semyshev, Kirill Ursov; Middle blockers: Petar Krsmanović (SRB), Aleksey Safonov, Nikita Luchin, Sergey Ershov, Nikolay Beskrovniy; Liberos: Evgeniy Andreev, Vasil Fazulov; Coach: Rafael Khabibullin.
Signings: Evseev (Nova).
Departures: Tyurin (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast), Shipotko (Ural), Tokhtash (?).
Setters: Igor Kolodinskiy, Valentin Bezrukov; Opposites: Sergey Paraynen, Aleksey Evseev; Receivers: Denis Bogdan, Dmitriy Volkov, Egor Kliuka, Mikhail Bondarenko; Middle blockers: Ilya Vlasov, Vadym Lykhosherstov (UKR), Nikita Krot, Ivan Yakovlev; Liberos: Andrey Alekseev, Vladimir Shishkin; Coach: Igor Chutchev.
Signings: coach Konstantinov (Nizhniy Novgorod), Zubkov, Kurkaev and Golubev (Yenisei), Pavlov (Latina, ITA), K. Shoji (Arkas, TUR), Troy (Trefl, POL), Chervyakov (Ural), E. Shoji (BR Volleys, GER), Tarasov (Dagestan, Division 2).
Departures: Shulgin and Abrosimov (Ural), Zemchenok and Volvich (Zenit), Kovačević (BR Volleys, GER), Yanutov (Yenisei), coach Voronkov (Krasnodar), Ostapenko (Dinamo Moscow).
Setters: Kawika Shoji (USA), Ivan Lukyanenko, Andrey Zubkov; Opposites: Nikolay Pavlov, Murphy Troy (USA); Receivers: Sergey Savin, Lukáš Diviš, Evgeniy Bannov, Stanislav Eremin; Middle blockers: Maksim Belogortsev, Aleksey Samoylenko, Ilyas Kurkaev, Sergey Chervyakov; Liberos: Valentin Golubev, Ilya Petrushov, Erik Shoji (USA); Coach: Plamen Konstantinov (BUL).
Signings: Vinčić (Beauvais, FRA), Spiridonov (Zenit), Krivets (Kuzbass), Yanutov (Novosibirsk), Zhos (Transgaz, Division 2), Leontiev (Nova), Zhuk and Gamayunov (second team).
Departures: Díaz (?), Siltala (Milli Piyango, TUR), Kurkaev, Golubev and Zubkov (Novosibirsk), Dubrovin and Komarov (Krasnodar), Khilychenko (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast).
Setters: Dejan Vinčić (SLO), Roman Zhos; Opposites: Anton Mysin, Filipp Voronkov; Receivers: Aleksandr Mochalov, Dmitriy Leontiev, Aleksey Spiridonov, Vladimir Gamayunov; Middle blockers: Pavel Bezrukikh, Ivan Panychev, Dmitriy Zhuk, Aleksandr Krivets; Liberos: Aleksandr Yanutov, Ilya Chubykin; Coach: Yuriy Cherednik.
Signings: coach Sammelvuo (Finland NT), Pankov (Dinamo Moscow), Poletaev (Zenit), Schwarz (Trefl, POL), Apalikov (Yugra), Moiseev and Ropavka (second team).
Departures: coach Matusevich (?), Krasilnikov (?), Zhigalov (Belogorie), Leonenko (?), Stepanyan (Krasnodar), Shestak (?), Krivets (Yenisei).
Setters: Pavel Pankov, Sergey Makarov; Opposites: Romanas Shkulyavichus, Viktor Poletaev; Receivers: Anton Karpukhov, Maksim Shpilev, Sebastian Schwarz (GER), Sergey Nikitin; Middle blockers: Ivan Ropavka, Mikhail Shcherbakov, Nikolay Apalikov, Inal Tavasiev; Liberos: Aleksandr Moiseev, Lauri Kerminen (FIN); Coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo (FIN).
Signings: Shulgin and Abrosimov (Novosibirsk), Moroz (Jumbos, KOR), Shipotko (Fakel), Kritskiy and Kolesnik (Nizhniy Novgorod), Kabeshov and Getman (Yugra), Khanipov (Belogorie).
Departures: Kimerov, Burtsev, Maksimov and Kuznetsov (Krasnodar), Alekseev and Samsonychev (Nova), Kalinin (Sora, ITA), Komarov (?) Tiutlin (?), Chevryakov (Novosibirsk).
Setters: Dmitriy Kovalev, Maksim Shulgin; Opposites: Evgeniy Rybakov, Andrey Kolesnik, Pavel Moroz; Receivers: Denis Shipotko, Andrii Kutsmus (UKR); Middle blockers: Ruslan Khanipov, Denis Getman, Aleksandr Kritskiy, Aleksandr Abrosimov; Liberos: Aleksey Kabeshov, Dmitriy Kirichenko; Coach: Boris Grebennikov.
Signings: Synytsa (Barnaul, Division 2), Buts (Woori, KOR), Novgorodov and Titich (Nizhniy Novgorod), Makhortov and Kozlov (Izumrud, Division 2), Klapnev (Transgaz, Division 2), Chivel (Academy Kazan, Division 2).
Departures: Khandrolin (?), Beketov (?), Fomenko, Podlesnykh and Iereshchenko (Belogorie), Kulikov (Krasnodar), Krotkov (Zenit), Evtyukhin (Yaroslavich, Division 2), Zakirov (Prikamie, Division 2).
Setters: Dmitriy Kozlov, Iurii Synytsa (UKR); Opposites: Aleksandr Buts, Oleg Krikun; Receivers: Dmytro Babkov (UKR), Pavel Zakharov, Maksim Novgorodov, Aleksandr Platonov, Andrey Titich, Nikolay Chepura; Middle blockers: Vladimir Klapnev, Vyacheslav Makhortov, Sergey Rokhin, Vladimir Chivel; Libero: Dmitriy Berezin; Coach: Yuriy Melnichuk.
Signings: Samsonychev and Alekseev (Ural), Avdochenko (Stroitel, BLR), Karpenko (Prikamie, Division 2), Lipezin (Grozniy, Division 2), Boldyrev (Dinamo Moscow), Voronkov (Barnaul, Division 2).
Departures: Sventitskis (Barnaul, Division 2), Evseev (Fakel), Leontiev (Yenisei), Tsarev (?), Kurguzov (?), Konnov (?), Parkhuta (?).
Setters: Valentin Strilchuk, Cheslavs Sventitskis, Oleg Samsonychev; Opposites: Ivan Podrebinkin, Vladimir Yakimov, Pavel Avdochenko (BLR); Receivers: Dmitriy Makarenko, Aleksandr Boldyrev, Nikita Alekseev, Aleksey Karpenko; Middle blockers: Vladimir Semshchikov, Siarhei Busel (BLR), Artem Dovgan, Ivan Kozitsin; Libero: Evgeniy Galatov, Aleksey Lipezin, Nikita Voronkov; Coach: Konstantin Bryanskiy.
Signings: Egorov (Prikamie, Division 2), Timofeev (Nizhniy Novgorod).
Departures: /
Setters: Denis Ignatiev, Roman Egorov; Opposites: Andrey Klimov, Vitaliy Vasilev; Receivers: Makar Bestuzhev, Nikita Kozlov, Sergey Timofeev, Vladimir Ivanov; Middle blockers: Georgiy Spichev, Dmitriy Polakov, Sergey Anoykin, Aleksandr Avdeev; Liberos: Gleb Kashitsin, Vitaliy Travkin; Coach: Vladimir Terentiev.
Signings: coach Voronkov (Novosibirsk), Dubrovin and Komarov (Yenisei), Maksimov, Kimerov, Burtsev and Kuznetsov (Ural), Glivenko (Prikamie, Division 2), Kulikov (Samotlor), Nalobin (Friedrichshafen, GER), Stepanyan (Kuzbass).
Departures: coach Shlapnikov (?), Bagrey (Belogorie), Sychev (?), Ismailov (Yaroslavich, Division 2), Poltavskiy (retired), Kalandadze (Iraklis, GRE), Melnik (Zenit), Zelenkov (Dinamo Leningradskaya Oblast).
Setters: Vladislav Zhloba, Andrey Zubkov; Opposites: Aleksandr Kimerov, Bogdan Glivenko, Andrey Maksimov; Receivers: Ivan Komarov, Anton Dubrovin, Oleg Tsentalovich, Sergey Burtsev, Maksim Panteleymonenko; Middle blockers: Maksim Kulikov, Leonid Kuznetsov, Aleksey Nalobin; Liberos: Khachatur Stepanyan, Valeriy Komarov; Coach: Andrey Voronkov.
Signings: Deniss Petrovs (Nizhniy Novgorod), Tyurin (Fakel), Tisevich (Yaroslavich, Division 2), Krasikov (Belogorie), Khilychenko (Enisey), Zelenkov (Krasnodar), Morozov (Stroitel, BLR).
Departures: Andrievskiy (?), Kukhno (Avtomobilist, Division 3), Beskrovniy (Yugra), Parkhomchuk (?), Ivanov (?), Dragunov (Belogorie).
Setters: Igor Tisevich, Deniss Petrovs (LAT); Opposites: Aleksandr Kovalev, Igor Tyurin, Aleksey Pluzhnikov, Dmitriy Krasikov; Receivers: Aleksandr Petrov, Makism Purin, Anton Botin; Middle blockers: Vladimir Khilychenko, Aleksandr Tkachev, Maksim Morozov (BLR); Liberos: Artem Zelenkov, Semen Krivitchenko; Coach: Oleg Sorgin.
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