WVC Dynamo Kazan


Dinamo Kazan is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Kazan. The club was founded in 2002 and plays in the super league, the top Russian league.

Previous names

The club was founded in September 2002 as Kazanochka and made quick progress in the lower leagues, arriving at the Super league in the 2005–06 season. On its second season at the Super league, the club reached the top four and earned a spot at the 2007–08 CEV Women's Challenge Cup.
The 2007–08 season was difficult for the club, who lost its main sponsor just before the start of the season. Faced with an uncertain future, the club just managed to fulfil its season competitions commitments with poor results, being relegated from the Super league and failing to qualify in the top 8 of the CEV Challenge Cup. With the club at the point of being dissolved, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan directly intervened and took over the club. As a result the club's name was changed to Dinamo Kazan.
Dinamo Kazan returned to the Super league in 2009–10 and signed players which improved the quality of the team, among them Jordan Larson, Ekaterina Gamova, Maria Borisenko, Tatiana Kosheleva, Ekaterina Kabeshova and Vera Ulyakina. These players formed the core of the Russian national team in 2010. Success and results came soon in the following seasons, the club won the 2010 Russian Cup, its first title, and would go on to win the Super league for five consecutive seasons. It won a second Russian Cup in 2012 and the 2013–14 CEV Champions League held in Baku, Azerbaijan, defeating the home team Rabita Baku in the semifinals by 3–0 and the Turkish side VakıfBank İstanbul also by 3–0 in the final. The title qualified the club for the 2014 FIVB Club World Championship played in Switzerland, where the club would beat Brazilian sides SESI-SP by 3–1 in the semifinals and Molico Osasco by 3–0 in the final to claim the title.
In December 2016, the club won its third Russian Cup after beating Dinamo Moscow by 3–1 in the final. Kazan won its third straight title in 2017, beating VC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk 3-0 in the decisive game.

Honours

National competitions

Season 2018–2019
NumberPlayerPositionHeight Weight Birth date
1 Valeriia GorbunovaOutside Hitter1.8771
3 Anastasia BavykinaOutside Hitter1.8879
4 Marina MaryukhnichMiddle Blocker1.9770
5 Aleksandra PasynkovaOutside Hitter1.9173
6 Irina ZaryazhkoMiddle Blocker1.9675
7 Anna KotikovaOutside Hitter1.8676
9 Svetlana MosalevaLibero1.7167
10 Elena NovikSetter1.8068
13 Evgeniya Startseva Setter1.8565
14 Ekaterina UlanovaLibero1.7361
16 Tatiana SimanikhinaLibero1.9272
17 Tatiana KadochkinaOpposite1.9272
18 Sona MikyskovaOpposite1.8775
19 Daria MalyginaOpposite2.0180
20 Anastasia SamoilenkoMiddle Blocker1.9269

Notable players