| Full name | Volleyball Club Uralochka-NTMK | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1966 | ||
| Ground | Metallurg-Forum,Nizhny Tagil, Russia (Capacity: 3,200) | ||
| Chairman | Aleksey Kushnarev | ||
| Manager | Mikhail Karpol | ||
| League | Women's Super League | ||
| 2021–22 | 2nd | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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Uralochka-NTMK (Russian:«Уралочка-НТМК») is a Russian professional women'svolleyball club based inYekaterinburg and currently plays in theSuper League, the top Russian league. It was established in 1966 and is the most successful club in the USSR and Russian women's volleyball combined history with 25 national championship titles (11 Soviet and 14 Russian).[citation needed]
In 1966 the Transport Engineering Sverdlov plant (nowUraltransmash) decided to create a women's volleyball team to representSverdlovsk Oblast. It was namedUralochka (an endearment form forUral woman) and in December that same year it was allowed to compete at the national championship, Alexander Kilchevsky became the club's first coach.[1]
During its first years, the results were inconsistent with the team being relegated and promoted and in 1969,Nikolay Karpol was appointed head coach and it was only by the end of the 1973 season when the club gained promotion to the highest USSR championship that results begin to become consistent.[2] During the early and mid-1970sDinamo Moscow was the dominant force in Soviet women's volley but Uralochka become very competitive and begin to challenge Dinamo's dominance. By the late 1970s the club won its first national title (in 1978) and went on to win the national titles for another four consecutive seasons (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982). European success came next, the club started to assert itself as a European force by winning theCEV Champions League for three consecutive years (1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83) and theCup Winners Cup of 1985–86. A first national Cup title came in 1986, during the same season another national championship was won, with another five consecutive ones arriving in the following seasons (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991). Two more cups (in 1987 and 1989) and three CEV Champions league (in 1986–87, 1988–89 and 1989–90) were added and by the time of thedissolution of the Soviet Union, the club had established itself as one of the strongest teams in the continent.[3]
When Sverdlovsk becameYekaterinburg, the club name changed fromUralochka Sverdlovsk toUralochka Yekaterinburg. The club would dominate the newly createdRussian Women's League winning the tournaments first 14 seasons (from 1991–92 to 2004–05), which when added to the titles of the last 6 seasons of the USSR makes the club the national championship winner for 20 consecutive years. In the European competitions, the club has reached the semifinal or later stages of the CEV Champions league in six consecutive seasons (from 1991–92 to 1996–97) winning the title in two occasions (1993–94 and 1994–95).[1]
In 2001 the club was renamedUralochka-NTMK, with NTMK standing forNizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works (literally "Nizhny Tagil MetallurgicKombinat").
The club has two venues in which to play.[3]
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USSR Cup: 3Season 2020–2021, as of November 2020.[4]
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Valeria Safonova | Middle blocker | 1.83 | 72 | (1992-03-28)28 March 1992 (age 33) |
| 4 | Daria Pilipenko | Libero | 1.77 | 69 | (1990-06-09)9 June 1990 (age 35) |
| 5 |  Bogdana Azinova | Outside hitter | 1.90 | 78 | (1992-03-16)16 March 1992 (age 33) |
| 6 | Kristina Kurnosova | Libero | 1.73 | 67 | (1997-06-17)17 June 1997 (age 28) |
| 7 | Valeria Karlova | Outside hitter | 1.90 | 74 | (2000-04-04)4 April 2000 (age 25) |
| 8 | Irina Sorikina | Setter | 1.82 | 69 | (1995-02-17)17 February 1995 (age 30) |
| 9 | Alena Kondrashova | Setter | 1.80 | 65 | (1997-04-07)7 April 1997 (age 28) |
| 10 | Elizaveta Kotova | Middle blocker | 1.86 | 81 | (1998-05-31)31 May 1998 (age 27) |
| 12 |  Ailama Cese | Outside hitter | 1.88 | 58 | (2000-10-29)29 October 2000 (age 25) |
| 13 | Ksenia Parubets | Outside hitter | 1.84 | 64 | (1994-10-31)31 October 1994 (age 31) |
| 14 | Tatiana Kulikova | Middle blocker | 1.90 | 75 | (1993-11-21)21 November 1993 (age 32) |
| 15 | Polina Trukhina | Libero | 1.76 | 67 | (1998-05-27)27 May 1998 (age 27) |
| 18 |  Vera Kostyuchik | Opposite | 1.91 | 71 | (2000-09-27)27 September 2000 (age 25) |
| 19 | Valentina Bichinina | Outside hitter | 1.85 | 70 | (2000-11-02)2 November 2000 (age 25) |
| 21 | Elizaveta Fitisova | Middle blocker | 1.87 | 68 | (2001-09-21)21 September 2001 (age 24) |
| 23 | Tatiana Seliutina | Setter | 1.83 | 70 | (2000-08-10)10 August 2000 (age 25) |
| 30 | Ksenia Smirnova | Opposite | 1.88 | 76 | (1998-04-24)24 April 1998 (age 27) |
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Sinead JackAnastasiya KodirovaIn 1983 the club created another team, which on its own right became competitive, winning the USSR Cup in 1988, finishing second once in the USSR Championship and finishing theRussian Championship five times in second and five times in third places. In 2003, Uralochka 2 effectively became the second team to support youth players and provide players to the main team.[1]
Over the years it has played under various names (Yunezis, Uraltransbank, Aeroflot-Malachite, Aeroflot-Uraltransbank, Uralochka 2 - Ural State Technical University, Uralochka 2 - USUE).[citation needed]
