Soviet Union women's national volleyball team


The Soviet Union women's national volleyball team was the national volleyball team that had represented the Soviet Union in the International competitions between 1952 until 1991.
FIVB considers Russia as the inheritor of the records of Soviet Union and CIS.
The USSR Volleyball Federation joined the FIVB in 1948, a year after the foundation of the international governing body. The following Four years they sent a team to compete in the first FIVB Women’s World Championship and have been dominating the international scene ever since, having won Five World Championships, one World Cup and 13 European Championships. All Olympic medals of the Soviet Union were inherited by Russia, but not combined together with the medal count of the Russian Federation.

History

The USSR Volleyball Federation joined the FIVB in 1948 and after Four years they sent a team to compete in the first World Championship.
They were soon regularly topping the podium at international competitions such as the Olympic Games, World Championship and European Championships and the World Cup.

Major world titles

USSR

# – 4 major titles in row in late 1960s - early 1970s

Results

Olympic Games

;Unified Team

[1990 FIVB Volleyball [Women's World Championship|1990 Last World Championship squad]]

Coach: Nikolay Karpol
No.NameAgeHeightWeight
1Valentina Ogiyenko25
3Marina Nikulina27
4Yelena Batuchina19
5Irina Smirnova22
6Tatyana Sidorenko24
7Irina Parchomtschuk25
10Svetlana Vasilevskaya19
11Yelena Ovtschinnikova25
12Irina Gorbatiuk27
13Svetlana Korytova22
14Yuliya Bubnova19
15Olga Tolmachyova27