WoV PRESENTS: Russian Women’s volleyball Superliga rosters

Dinamo Moscow

By examining transfer policy of the Russian female clubs, from this point of view it looks like Dinamo Moscow have big chances to retain the title while Dinamo Kazan did not manage to compensate large number of departures of major players. Thus, their chances to return the title are slim. Same applies to Uralochka and Dinamo Krasnodar who had respectable squads last season but failed to keep key players.

Superliga 2016/17 will have one newcomer – Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Voronezh and Omichka Omsk Region are no longer part of Russian top flight who will now have 10 instead of 11 teams.

See the Top 10 Women’s transfers in Russia.

Also, check out rosters of Men’s Superliga.

ALL WOMEN’S SUPERLIGA TRANSFERS AND ROSTERS FOR 2016/2017 (schedule)

Dinamo Moscow

Signings: Poljak (Eczacıbaşı, TUR).

Departures: Fê Garay (Evergrande, CHN), coach Marichev (?), Lazareva (Yenisei), Doronicheva (Leningradka), Moroz (Sakhalin).

Setters: Vera Vetrova, Ekaterina Kosyanenko; Opposites: Nataliya Goncharova; Receivers: Anastasiya Bavykina, Anastasiya Markova, Yana Shcherban; Middle blockers: Yuliya Morozova, Ekaterina Lyubushkina, Maja Poljak (CRO), Irina Fetisova; Liberos: Anna Malova, Ekaterina Raevskaya; Coach: Yuriy Panchenko.

Dinamo Kazan

Signings: Filishtinskaya and Maryukhnich (Krasnodar), Nemtinova (Severyanka, Division 2), Voronkova (Zarechie), Podskalnaya (Volero, SUI), Zaryazhko (Uralochka), Nemtinova (Ufimochka, Division 2).

Departures: Gendel (Krasnodar), Gamova, Borodakova and Del Core (retired), Malkova (Volero, SUI), Matyenko (İdmanocağı, TUR).

Setters: Evgeniya Startseva, Irina Filishtinskaya; Opposites: Darya Stolyarova, Sabina Gilfanova, Olga Biryukova; Receivers: Irina Voronkova, Anastasiya Podovshina, Elitsa Vasileva (BUL); Middle blockers: Marina Maryukhnich, Yuliya Podskalnaya, Irina Zaryazhko, Nataliya Nemtinova; Liberos: Elena Ezhova, Ekaterina Ulanova; Coach: Rishat Gilyazutdinov.

Uralochka-NTMK Sverdlovskaya oblast

Signings: Khabibullina (free agent), Ostrovskaya and Thompson (Manisa, Division 2, TUR), Krsmanović (Il Bisonte, ITA).

Departures: Jack (Galatasaray, TUR), Zaryazhko (Dinamo Kazan), Romanova (break).

Setters: Marina Babeshina, Anastasiya Kostylenko, Ekaterina Rusakova; Opposites: Anna Klimets (BLR), Lyudmila Khabibullina; Receivers: Kseniya Parubets, Margarita Kurilo, Darya Evtukhova, Darya Ostrovskaya, Channon Thompson (TRI), Olga Nosenko; Middle blockers: Valeriya Safonova, Elena Irisova, Ekaterina Evdokimova, Nataša Krsmanović (SRB); Liberos: Ekaterina Voronova. Coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Dinamo Krasnodar

Signings: Gendel (Dinamo Kazan), Perepelkina and Chaplina (Leningradka), Kirikova (Olimp, Division 2).

Departures: Kosheleva (Eczacıbaşı, TUR), Pasynkova (Sakhalin), Krivets (?), Efimova (Yenisei), Filishtinkaya and Maryukhnich (Dinamo Kazan), Sokolova (retired), Kryuchkova (retired), Talysheva (Proton).

Setters: Svetlana Surtseva; Opposites: Nataliya Malykh; Receivers: Nataliya Khodunova, Marina Tushova, Viktoriya Chaplina, Sofya Kirikova; Middle blockers: Elena Gendel, Mariya Perepelkina, Anastasiya Samoylenko; Liberos: Mariya Bibina; Coach: Konstantin Ushakov.

Zarechie Odintsovo

Signings: Yakushina (Severyanka, Division 2), Kotova (Luch, Division 3), Guskova (Indezit, Division 2).

Departures: Voronkova (Dinamo Kazan), Shorokhova (?).

Setters: Tatyana Romanova, Vera Salikova; Opposites: Darya Malygina, Oksana Yakushina; Recievers: Nataliya Nazarova, Alina Yaroshik, Marina Dibrova, Angelina Sperskayte, Tatyana Yurinskaya; Middle blockers: Angelina Lazarenko, Anstasiya Barchuk, Viktoriya Mishneva, Anastasiya Samokhvalova, Elizaveta Kotova; Liberos: Kristina Kurnosova, Nataliya Guskova; Coach: Vadim Pankov.

Proton Balakovo Saratovskaya Oblast

Signings: Talysheva (Krasnodar), Uattara (Syracuse University, USA), Grigoreva (Sakhalin, Division 2), Serbina (Yenisei), Kostyuchik (Pribuzhie-TSOR, BLR).

Departures: Anufrienko (Chelyabinsk), Levshina (?), Kupriyanova (?), Cabrera (?), Gurbanova (?), Fadeeva (Indezit, Division 2).

Setters: Svetlana Serbina, Elena Novik; Opposites: Nelli Alisheva, Mariya Khaletskaya, Vera Kostyuchik (BLR); Receivers: Anna Makarova, Anna-Miriam Gansonre, Olga Bogdanova, Eli-Silvi Uattara, Elena Savkina; Middle blockers: Ekaterina Enina, Valeriya Zaytseva, Yuliya Grigoreva, Viktoriya Zhurbenko; Liberos: Kristina Tolstukhina, Darya Talysheva; Coach: Roman Kukushkin.

Yenisei Krasnoyarsk

Signings: Efimova (Krasnodar), Lazareva (Dinamo Moscow), Shkurikhina (Voronezh), Pligunova (Omichka), coach Golotov (Khimik, UKR).

Departures: Serbina (Proton), Karapetyan (Irtysh-Kazkhrom, KAZ), Bessonnaya (?), Klisura (?), Elizarova (Tulitsa, Division 3), Pantiley (break), coach Goncharov (Minchanka, BLR).

Setters: Aleksandra Peretiatko (UKR), Mariya Evteeva; Opposites: Anna Lazareva, Yuliya Aysina; Receivers: Irina Kuznetsova, Evgeniya Shcheglova, Mariya Frolova, Ekaterina Shkurikhina; Middle blockers: Ekaterina Efimova, Yana Manzyuk, Ekaterina Osichkina, Kseniya Pligunova; Liberos: Evgeniya Kondrashkina; Coach: Serhii Golotov (UKR).

Leningradka St-Petersburg

Signings: Doronicheva (Dinamo Moscow), Samoylova (Chelyabinsk), Shatunova and Vinogova (Severyanka, Division 2).

Departures: Chaplina and Perepelkina (Krasnodar), Efimova (Sakhalin), Shchukina (Chelyabinsk), Alimova (?), Tretyakova (?).

Setters: Nataliya Nepomnyashchikh, Mariya Doronicheva; Opposites: Mariya Samoylova, Ekaterina Petrova; Receivers: Yuliya Kutyukova, Elena Tkacheva, Valeriya Shatunova, Darya Tkacheva; Middle blockers: Ekaterina Polyakova, Alina Georgieva, Mariya Vinogova, Viktoriya Bobrova; Liberos: Mariya Kashina, Viktoriya Gorbacheva; Coach: Aleksandr Kashin.

Avtodor-Metar Chelyabinsk

Signings: Anufrienko (Proton), Shchukina (Leningradka), Sukhoverkhova and Frolova (Voronezh), Kovalenko (free agent).

Departures: Samoylova (Leningradka), Shklyaeva (Sparta, Division 2), Ososkova and Sannikova (Voronezh, Division 2), Mishina (Severyanka, Division 2), Abroskina (?), Gnilomedova (Primorochka, Division 2).

Setters: Anastasiya Anufrienko, Kristina Durmanova; Opposites: Anastasiya Kalinina; Receivers: Svetlana Sukhoverkhova, Nataliya Frolova, Alesya Pirogovskaya, Elena Kovalenko, Nadezhda Efimenko, Ekaterina Lezina; Middle blockers: Yuliya Shishkina, Elena Samoylova, Tatyana Shchukina; Liberos: Anna Gayduk; Coach: Dmitriy Dyakov.

Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Signings: Pasynkova (Krasnodar), O. Efimova, SR. (Leningradka), Akulova (Cannes, FRA), Bondar (free agent), O. Efimova, JR. and Kuznetsova (Omichka), Moroz (Dinamo Moscow), Lyakhovetskaya (free agent), Goncharova (Voronezh).

Departures: Grigoreva (Proton), Telezhuk (?), Vashina (?), Korovaeva (Severyanka, Division 2), Yamaletdinova (?), Vyazovik (Rimini, amateur league, ITA), Snegireva (Primorochka, Division 2), Chernyshova (?).

Setters: Olga Efimova, SR, Marina Akulova; Opposites: Yana Kiselev, Kseniya Bondar; Receivers: Aleksandra Pasyinkova, Olga Efimova, JR, Tatyana Nevidimova; Middle blockers: Regina Moroz, Rimma Goncharova, Elena Lezhanina, Angelina Lyakhovetskaya, Inessa Mirsalikova; Libero: Alina Kuznetsova, Evgeniya Bayandina; Coach: Konstantin Prikhodko.

Read Transfers – Done Deals and Transfers – Rumours.

Check out VolleyTransfers 2016/2017 article.

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