VC Universitet-Tekhnolog Belgorod


Universitet-Tekhnolog or University of Technology was a Russian women's volleyball club based in Belgorod. The club played in the Super League, the top Russian league until 2009–10.

Previous names

The club was established in 1984 as at the Faculty of Physical Education of the Belgorod М.S.Olminsky State Pedagogical Institute. It played in the lower divisions of the Soviet Championship and Russian Championship. The club changed its name to ahead of the 1992–93 season and played in the second division a season later.
Another name change came in the 1996–97 season when the club became before its debut at the Super League in the 1997–98 season. The club's results improved year by year and the club recorded strong finishes in the Super League such as second in 2000–01, third in 2001–02, second in 2002–03 and fourth in 2003–04. These results allowed the club to take part in European competitions such as the Top Teams Cup and the CEV Cup. From 2004 the results started to decline and the club was relegated at the end of the 2005–06 season.
Ahead of the 2006–07 season, the club moved under Lokomotiv Belgorod structure and was renamed. Results started to improve again, promotion back to the Super league was achieved during that same season. In the following season, the club finished sixth place in the Super League. Despite the seventh place finish at the 2008–09 Super League, the club won the 2008 Russian Cup and qualified for the CEV Champions League.
The club moved back under the Belgorod State University structure in 2009 and changed its name to. It finish eleventh at the 2009–10 Super League and reached the play-off stages of the 2009–10 CEV Women's Champions League after beating eventual champions Volley Bergamo at the group stage. The club was dissolved at the end of that season.

Honours

National competitions

This was the club's last squad, from season 2009–2010