16.04.2015
The story of our finishing player Dmitry Volkov is still short: about family, path in volleyball, “Torch” and injuries. On the eve of the decisive battle for 5th place at the end of the season, the 19-year-old player returns to the Novy Urengoy squad.
I was born in Novokuybyshevsk, and my parents had little to do with sports. - Dima starts the conversation. - In her youth, my mother was involved in athletics, specializing in long jump, but did not become a professional athlete. Now she teaches physical education at college, by the way, I am exactly like my mother in height - for a woman she is quite tall, about 180 centimeters. And dad has nothing to do with sports at all; he heads the security service in one of the city’s organizations.
- Brothers, sisters?
No, I'm the only one in the family.
- It often happens like this: before settling on a certain sport, a child tries almost a dozen others. Was it the same for you?
No, I immediately started playing volleyball, one might say it was predestined. The fact is that my uncle is a professional volleyball player, Evgeniy Petropavlov. And my mother somehow immediately decided that I would go to volleyball, and before school she worked with me at home. And when I went to first grade, her friend from the sports school was recruiting a volleyball class - I got there and, it turns out, started studying.
- Does this school have anything to do with Nova?
No, this is a city sports school, but a very good one and quite famous. For example, Alexander Abrosimov and Zhenya Petropavlov came from there. My first coach, Svetlana Alekseevna Medvedeva, is the person who instilled in me the basics of volleyball and instilled in me a love for the game. But then circumstances turned out this way: Svetlana Alekseevna had to leave the sports school, and it so happened that during the years of studying there I changed three coaches.
- Did diligent sports somehow influence your studies in secondary school?
I tried not to run it. Before I left for Fakel, I studied a lot, separately with teachers and on my own. In general, there were no threes. I had to pass exams, I wanted to enter the Rosneft class - quite prestigious, I wanted to go there, but it was possible to get there only if I studied well. Well, in general, it so happened that just after the ninth grade, when this division was supposed to happen, I went to Fakel.
- How did you get the offer from Fakel?
Even before leaving for the Spartakiad, which was held in Anapa, I knew that I could go to Fakel - my mother made arrangements, went there, talked with the director, manager, she liked everything. Then I came to the Spartakiad, and, it turns out, I stayed in Anapa at Fakel. We then took fourth place - a very decent result for Novokuibyshevsk. And that’s when the first season of the Youth League began.
- Let's remember.
We were gathered, everything was new for everyone - both the guys and the coaching staff. Nobody knew anything except that we would be the youngest team in the League. We prepared hard and went through difficult training camps. But in the end, I think they took a very worthy place - seventh. We fought with everyone, although it was, admittedly, very difficult - everyone was 5-6 years older than us. By the way, in the first season our current teammate Anton Fomenko, already a solid, mature player, played against us. He probably wasn’t particularly interested in playing with us (smiles). For us then, one might say, it was an honor to go out to play against him.
- Dima, and after the first season in the Youth League, did you receive a call to the Russian junior team?
Yes, not even after, but during it. There was preparation for EEVZA - we were all gathered and taken to Poland. There, too, everything was new, they didn’t know anything. “Fakel” then formed the backbone of the national team, and at the core of the national team were five people from our club. We played normally then, beating the Poles in the final 3:0.
- It turns out that you grew and developed together with the team and you started having problems with your back. How did you manage to cope and return to the game?
It was an incredibly difficult year without playing, from a psychological point of view: everything fell on me, I didn’t know what to do. Many, one might say, turned their backs on me. The federation came to the rescue, people believed in me, including our new club director, Nikolai Vasilievich Kapranov - we also work together in the national team. You could say it’s thanks to him that I continue to play now.
How was I treated? I missed the whole year, then went to Switzerland, where they developed a special training plan for me, according to which I worked independently. Monotonously, day after day... I clearly knew what I wanted: to return and play. There was no doubt that it would be different. I worked at home for six months, then the federation sent me to Anapa with a physical training coach, Alexey Sergeevich Konstantinov - we trained there individually for a little over a month. I felt good, it seemed like I was ready to play. And in the summer I went to the European Championships - these were my first competitions after a long break.
- What was it like to return to the court after a year away from the game?
I was just happy! You can’t imagine what it’s like for an athlete to lose a year. This is real happiness - the opportunity to go on the court again. Train and play again, when nothing bothers you, when you can perform any elements of the game without risk to your health.
- After winning Europe, you returned to Fakel as a first-team player.
After the European Championship, I didn’t even know where to go or where I would play, but it turned out that I came to where I left. And thank God that everything turned out this way.
- How big is the difference between youth volleyball and the tough games of the Super League?
The level, of course, is different. And there is more physical strength here, and the men on the other side are experienced, not their first year in the Super League.
- Olympic champions are standing opposite...
At first my knees were shaking. I felt responsibility and honor. When, for example, you go out to play against Zenit on their own court and beat them! This cannot be compared with anything, it seems to me.
- Are there any examples for you in sports? Perhaps some player whom you now or previously wanted to be like?
For me, since childhood, the main example was my uncle Zhenya Petropavlov. I looked up to him in everything, he gave me a lot and continues to give me now: advice, tips, we talk a lot about the game - I’m very grateful to him for that. Often I would come to his house and he would show me something right in the room; I still use some things (laughs). Then Tetyukhin, of course. It seems to me that this is an idol for everyone. He appeared later, that is, I learned about him much later, and I did not see him from the inside, as they say - how he lives, what he breathes, what he thinks about. But with my uncle it was the other way around - I watched how he lived and learned everything.
- Is it possible to live the same way now?
I'm trying, at least.
- How can you evaluate the season of “Torch”? It is, in fact, almost finished - there are a maximum of three games left to play.
Missing the entire playoffs is what I definitely didn’t like. Left its mark on the end of the season. Speaking in general, it was an incredible experience playing in the Super League, I played many matches. We have an excellent team, very united. I think that’s why we are fighting for fifth place - our team is even, there are no stars. Although our experienced players, Igor Kolodinsky, Lesha Samoilenko, Igor Tyurin, Anton Fomenko, give us very competent advice and tips. They help - sometimes we don’t understand something at all.
- Dima, what if it weren’t for volleyball?
Volleyball is everything for me, I don’t see myself anywhere else.
- Do you follow any other sports?
I'm slowly looking at almost everything. Of course, I like football. Real Madrid and Manchester United are nice.
- And the Russian ones?
- "Wings of Soviets"!
- Patriotic.
Well, of course! (laughs)
- What about winter sports?
When the Olympics took place in Sochi, I was incredibly impressed by short track speed skating, I really liked it. I'd like to try it.
- So you're standing on skates?
Yes, I like to skate, it doesn’t happen very often, but I go to the skating rink.
- Will you jump?
No, I won't risk it. Health is more important, I already understood that.
- Dima, if not the skating rink, then how will you spend your day off? Maybe some unusual hobby?
No, I don’t have any unusual hobbies. And in general, this season there is very little free time - continuous flights and games. I love going out with friends and going to the movies. I also love to read. Now I’m reading the biography of Rafael Nadal - I really like reading biographies, learning how outstanding people achieve their success.
- Would you like this book to be written about you someday?
It would be great. But so far I have done little for this.
Press service of VC "Fakel" Novy Urengoy
) - Russian volleyball player, finishing player for Novy Urengoy "Fakel" and the Russian national team, European champion 2017, international master of sports.
In October 2011, Volkov began playing for the Fakel farm team in the Youth League. A month and a half later, he won the prize for the most valuable player of the championship of the East European Volleyball Zonal Association in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, which ended in victory for the Russian youth team. In February 2012, in Nizhny Novgorod, as a member of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug team, he won gold at the Russian Championship among youth born in 1995-1996.
In the 2012/13 season, Dmitry Volkov became the silver medalist of the Youth League championship. In July 2013, as a member of the Russian U19 team under the leadership of Alexander Karikov, he won gold medals at the World Championships in Mexico and the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht, and based on the results of the world championship, he was included by the organizers in the symbolic team.
Dmitry Volkov completely missed the 2013/14 Youth League season due to problems with his spine. Doctors identified Scheuermann-Mau disease and developed a non-surgical recovery program. Over the course of a year, Dmitry increased his muscle mass by 25 kg, which allowed him to get rid of the back pain that was bothering him.
Returning to duty after a forced break, Volkov joined the Russian youth team and, as part of it, won the European Championship, held in August - September 2014 in Nitra and Brno. Soon, together with his youth Fakel partners Yegor Klyuka and Ilya Vlasov, he joined the main team and made his debut in the Super League. Almost immediately, Volkov, distinguished by his high emotionality, became a player in the starting six of “Fakel”, one of the key performers in the reception and attack of the Urengoy team.
In the summer of 2015, he became the bronze medalist of the European Games in Baku and the winner of two world championships - in the U21 and U23 age categories. On June 17, 2016 in Kaliningrad he made his debut in the Russian national team in the match
Finisher for Fakel and the Russian national team Dmitry Volkov, recognizedMVP of the Challenge Cup final, in an interview with BUSINESS Online Sport" spoke about working with Camillo Plachi, commented on comparisons with Alexey Spiridonov and admitted that he could end up in Zenit Kazan.
“THERE IS NO TIME TO CELEBRATE VICTORY”
– Dmitry, how did you celebrate your victory in the Challenge Cup?
- Quite calm. We took a sip of champagne from a goblet, then there was a gala dinner - everything was modest. Already on April 20 we have a playoff match of the Russian championship with Ural, so there is no time to celebrate. They had two weeks to prepare, we had three days.
– Who do you consider the key player of Ural?
– Setter Dima Kovalev is the core of this team, 50 percent of Ural, a lot depends on him. Feoktistov and Kutsmus are good finishers. Ufa has masters in all positions. It won't be easy.
- But it seemed that Fakel had a pretty easy time in the Challenge Cup.
– Perhaps in the early stages the opponents really weren’t the strongest. But in the final everything was different. Chaumont won the regular season in France this season; they beat the strong Turkish Ziraatbank in the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup. We prepared seriously for Chaumont. It's good that we won away - 3:1. This helped us a lot in the return match. Last year we lost in the final, but this time we didn’t miss our chance. It’s doubly nice that we won the Cup at home, in front of our fans. Thanks to everyone who supported us!
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– What has changed at Fakel with the arrival of the Italian coach Camillo Plachi?
- A lot of things. It’s even difficult to single out something specific. Each coach has his own vision of the game and work, so everything is different, the whole training process.
– Lament has always been talked about as a strong volleyball analyst.
– He really gives a lot of useful information that comes in handy in the game. We seriously analyze each opponent, there are several meetings, but I would not say that we are overloaded with theoretical studies.
– Is he a tough coach?
- Demanding. If you repeat the same mistakes that you have already sorted out, you may shout and curse. But at the same time, he can joke and laugh with us. A very competent trainer. I think there is an understanding between him and the players.
– What language do you speak?
– We have Igor Kolodinsky and Vladimir Shishkin who know Italian. Somewhere they give hints, but mostly senior coach Igor Sergeevich Chutchev helps with translation. There are no problems with communication. We already know some Italian expressions that mean that the coach is dissatisfied with us ( smiling).
“THE GOAL IS TO GO TO TOKYO AS A MAIN PLAYER”
– I saw several incendiary videos from your locker room. Who is the main joker on the team?
– Now Sasha Kimerov. He loves to rock the locker room.
– Don’t you fly with Pobeda Airlines anymore?
- Of course not!
– We must admit that Kimerov and Fakel.
– It’s a shame that they talk about volleyball only after such scandals. We need to promote our game more. Unfortunately, volleyball has been shown less on TV lately.
– You have a photo on Instagram in the training uniform of the Brazilian national team. How so?
– (Laughs). It's actually a funny story. In the summer of 2014, Brazilian finisher Mauricio Borges, the same one who became the Olympic champion in Rio, moved to Fakel. But then the club had financial difficulties and in the end he did not come. But I came to the team, and at first they called me Borges. And they gave me this T-shirt. I don't even know where they took it. In general, the guys had so much fun, and coach Yuri Panchenko loved to joke about this topic.
“At the age of 20, getting to the Games was a miracle! In Atlanta, I walked everywhere with my mouth open. To be honest, I wasn’t very worried about fourth place back then,” admitted Sergei Tetyukhin. What emotions did you experience after finishing fourth in Rio?
“I wouldn’t say that the ground went out from under my feet.” I was worried, of course, it was insulting. But at the same time, I understood that I was 21 years old and this was my first Olympics. I’m happy that I was able to get into the Olympic team and plunge into this atmosphere - I also walked everywhere with my mouth open! Thanks to Vladimir Romanovich Alekno for giving me this chance. Working and communicating with top-level players has been a rewarding experience for me.
– Many Olympic volleyball players had dozens of photographs with celebrities during the Rio Games. You only have a photo with Elena Isinbaeva.
- Yes, I didn’t really set a goal, I didn’t specifically run after the stars. If I met someone, I took a photo. The photo with Isinbayeva was taken at the airport when we were waiting for our flight home.
“He has a strong inner core. He clearly knows what he wants and confidently moves towards his goal,” a quote from your mother’s interview. How do you see your future, say, three years from now?
- Hard question. First of all, I hope that everything will be fine with your health. This is the most important thing for any athlete. As for my goals, I want to play with Fakel in the Champions League in the coming years. I would also like to gain a foothold in the Russian national team and go to the Olympics in Tokyo as a main player. Of course, for the “gold”.
“I CHOSE BETWEEN ZENIT AND TORCH”
– You will work in the national team in the coming years under the leadership of Sergei Shlyapnikov. You know him well, don't you?
- Yes. We probably crossed paths in junior and youth teams for five or six years. He either supervised teams or coached. We can say that I’m already accustomed to his working methods, I know the requirements, so there won’t be much discomfort.
– Can you remember some funny incident related to Shlyapnikov?
– (Smiling). I don't remember something. Shlyapnikov has no time for fun! Everyone knows that this is a strict coach.
– Is it true that at the age of 16 you could have ended up not in Fakel, but in Zenit Kazan?
- Yes. When I graduated from the sports school in Novokuibyshevsk, we had exactly this choice. Mom went to look at the conditions in both Kazan and Anapa, where Fakel’s youth are being trained. My parents decided that I would be better off in the Fakel system. Now we can say that we were not mistaken.
– How do you feel about constant comparisons with Alexei Spiridonov?
– I don’t attach much importance to this at all. We are completely different players. The only similarity is in the emotions shown. They help both him and me to play.
– Were you this active as a child too?
– Yes, my parents say that he never sat still. I always had to go somewhere, do something. They say that the neighbors constantly came and complained - he annoyed them by constantly hitting the ball against the wall. I learned the basics of volleyball in the apartment.
– Your dear “Nova” may soon change its name. Which option are you for – “New Samara” or “Wings of the Soviets”.
– I am for the first option. Krylya Sovetov is more associated with football.
DOSSIER "BUSINESS Online"
Dmitry VOLKOV
Role: finisher
Date of Birth: May 25, 1995
Placebirth:Novokuibyshevsk
Career:“Fakel-2” (Novy Urengoy) – 2011 - 2014; "Fakel" - since 2014.
Achievements in the club:winner of the Challenge Cup (2017), silver medalist of the youth league (2013).
Achievements in national teams:European Games bronze medalist (2015), U-19 world champion (2013), U-21 world champion (2015), U-23 world champion (2015), U-20 European champion (2014).
Individual achievements:best striker of the U-19 World Championship, best finisher of the U-21 World Championship, MVP of the Challenge Cup final.
He played 13 matches as a member of the Russian national team (7 – 2016 World League, 6 – 2016 Olympic Games).
Dmitry Alexandrovich Volkov(May 25, Novokuybyshevsk) - Russian volleyball player, finishing player for Novy Urengoy “Fakel” and the Russian national team, master of sports.
Biography
In October 2011, Volkov began playing for the Fakel farm team in the Youth League. A month and a half later, he won the prize for the most valuable player of the championship of the East European Volleyball Zonal Association in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, which ended in victory for the Russian youth team. In February 2012, in Nizhny Novgorod, as a member of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug team, he won gold at the Russian Championship among youth born in 1995-1996.
In the 2012/13 season, Dmitry Volkov became the silver medalist of the Youth League championship. In July 2013, as a member of the Russian U19 team under the leadership of Alexander Karikov, he won gold medals at the World Championships in Mexico and the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht, and based on the results of the world championship, he was included by the organizers in the symbolic team.
Dmitry Volkov completely missed the 2013/14 Youth League season due to a back injury. Returning to duty after a long break, he joined the Russian youth team and, as part of it, won the European Championship, held in August - September 2014 in Nitra and Brno. Soon, together with his youth Fakel partners Yegor Klyuka and Ilya Vlasov, he joined the main team and made his debut in the Super League. Almost immediately, Volkov, distinguished by his high emotionality, became a player in the starting six of “Fakel”, one of the key performers in the reception and attack of the Urengoy team.
In the summer of 2015, he became the bronze medalist of the European Games in Baku and the winner of two world championships - in the U21 and U23 age categories. On June 17, 2016, in Kaliningrad he made his debut in the Russian national team in a World League match with the Serbian team.
Achievements
With teams
- Winner of the EEVZA championship among juniors (2011).
- Winner of the XII European Youth Olympic Festival (2013).
- Bronze medalist of the European Games (2015).
In a club career
- Silver medalist of the Youth League Championship (2012/13).
- Challenge Cup finalist (2015/16).
Individual prizes
- MVP of the EEVZA Youth Championship (2011).
- Best finisher at the World Youth Championship (2013).
- Best finisher of the World Youth Championship (2015).
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Pierre woke up late on September 3rd. His head ached, the dress in which he slept without undressing weighed down his body, and in his soul there was a vague consciousness of something shameful that had been committed the day before; This was a shameful conversation yesterday with Captain Rambal.The clock showed eleven, but it seemed especially cloudy outside. Pierre stood up, rubbed his eyes and, seeing the pistol with a cut-out stock, which Gerasim had put back on the desk, Pierre remembered where he was and what lay ahead of him that very day.
“Am I too late? - thought Pierre. “No, he will probably make his entry into Moscow no earlier than twelve.” Pierre did not allow himself to think about what lay ahead of him, but was in a hurry to act as quickly as possible.
Having straightened his dress, Pierre took the pistol in his hands and was about to leave. But then for the first time the thought came to him about how, not in his hand, he could carry this weapon down the street. Even under a wide caftan it was difficult to hide a large pistol. It could not be placed inconspicuously either behind a belt or under an armpit. In addition, the pistol was unloaded, and Pierre did not have time to load it. “It’s all the same, it’s a dagger,” Pierre said to himself, although more than once, while discussing the fulfillment of his intention, he decided with himself that the student’s main mistake in 1809 was that he wanted to kill Napoleon with a dagger. But, as if Pierre’s main goal was not to carry out his intended task, but to show himself that he was not renouncing his intention and was doing everything to fulfill it, Pierre hastily took the one he had bought from the Sukharev Tower along with the pistol a blunt, jagged dagger in a green sheath and hid it under his vest.
Having belted his caftan and pulled down his hat, Pierre, trying not to make noise and not to meet the captain, walked along the corridor and went out into the street.
The fire that he had looked at so indifferently the night before had grown significantly overnight. Moscow was already burning from different sides. Karetny Ryad, Zamoskvorechye, Gostiny Dvor, Povarskaya, barges on the Moscow River and the wood market near the Dorogomilovsky Bridge were burning at the same time.
Pierre's path lay through the alleys to Povarskaya and from there to the Arbat, to St. Nicholas the Apparition, with whom he had long ago determined in his imagination the place where his deed should be carried out. Most of the houses had locked gates and shutters. The streets and alleys were deserted. The air smelled of burning and smoke. Occasionally we encountered Russians with anxiously timid faces and Frenchmen with a non-urban, camp look, walking along the middle of the streets. Both of them looked at Pierre in surprise. In addition to his great height and thickness, in addition to the strange, gloomily concentrated and suffering expression on his face and entire figure, the Russians looked closely at Pierre because they did not understand what class this man could belong to. The French followed him with their eyes in surprise, especially because Pierre, disgusted by all the other Russians who looked at the French in fear or curiosity, did not pay any attention to them. At the gate of one house, three Frenchmen, who were explaining something to Russian people who did not understand them, stopped Pierre, asking if he knew French?
Pierre shook his head negatively and moved on. In another alley, a sentry standing by a green box shouted at him, and only at the repeated menacing scream and the sound of a gun taken by the sentry on his hand did Pierre realize that he had to go around to the other side of the street. He heard and saw nothing around him. He, like something terrible and alien to him, carried his intention with haste and horror, afraid - taught by the experience of the previous night - to somehow lose it. But Pierre was not destined to convey his mood intact to the place where he was heading. In addition, even if he had not been delayed by anything on the way, his intention could not have been fulfilled simply because Napoleon had traveled more than four hours ago from the Dorogomilovsky suburb through the Arbat to the Kremlin and was now sitting in the most gloomy mood in the Tsar’s office the Kremlin Palace and gave detailed, detailed orders about the measures that immediately had to be taken to extinguish the fire, prevent looting and calm the residents. But Pierre did not know this; He, completely absorbed in what was to come, suffered, as people suffer who stubbornly undertake an impossible task - not because of the difficulties, but because the task is unusual for their nature; he was tormented by the fear that he would weaken at the decisive moment and, as a result, lose self-respect.
Although he did not see or hear anything around him, he instinctively knew the way and did not make the mistake of taking the side streets that led him to Povarskaya.
As Pierre approached Povarskaya, the smoke became stronger and stronger, and there was even heat from the fire. Occasionally tongues of fire rose from behind the roofs of houses. There were more people on the streets, and these people were more anxious. But Pierre, although he felt that something extraordinary was happening around him, was not aware that he was approaching a fire. Walking along a path that ran through a large undeveloped place, adjacent on one side to Povarskaya, on the other to the gardens of Prince Gruzinsky’s house, Pierre suddenly heard the desperate cry of a woman next to him. He stopped, as if awakening from sleep, and raised his head.
To the side of the path, on the dry, dusty grass, household belongings were piled up: feather beds, a samovar, icons and chests. On the ground next to the chests sat an elderly, thin woman, with long protruding upper teeth, dressed in a black cloak and cap. This woman, rocking and saying something, cried sorely. Two girls, from ten to twelve years old, dressed in dirty short dresses and cloaks, looked at their mother with an expression of bewilderment on their pale, frightened faces. A smaller boy, about seven years old, wearing a suit and someone else’s huge cap, was crying in the arms of an old woman nanny. A barefoot, dirty girl sat on a chest and, having loosened her whitish braid, pulled back her singed hair, sniffing it. The husband, a short, stooped man in a uniform, with wheel-shaped sideburns and smooth temples visible from under a straight-on cap, with a motionless face, pushed apart the chests, placed one on top of the other, and pulled out some clothes from under them.