Dmitry Alexandrovich Volkov(May 25, Novokuibyshevsk) - 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. Having returned 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 age categories U21 and U23. 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 exactly that 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 figured out the road 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 along 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, moved apart the chests, placed one on top of the other, and pulled out some clothes from under them.
“I love Pogba and Ronaldo. I try not to watch the RFPL.” Perhaps our coolest volleyball player
Match TV spoke with Dmitry Volkov, who won the European Championship with the Russian team.
The general manager of the Russian national team, Roman Stanislavov, passes us. "Where, where are they?" - Dmitry Volkov smiles. Stanislavov understands everything, unfastens his wristwatch and hands it to Volkov.
Yaremenko gave me this watch (Secretary General of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation Alexander Yaremenko - “Match TV”), I sold it to you,” says Stanislavov.
- What did you promise if you didn’t win?- I ask Volkov.
I am nothing. He just said that we would win, and Roman promised a watch. This is the coolest gift for our gold so far! They promised bonuses, but they don’t know when they will give them.
- Did Putin congratulate you?
Didn't congratulate. I don’t know why, ask him.
- Well, at least Mutko called?
Nobody called. Maybe they'll call again?
On Sunday evening, the Russian volleyball team won gold at the European Championship. This is the first victory of our volleyball players in four years, when the team led by Andrei Voronkov became the best in the World League. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, we lost to the United States in the match for third place, leading the match in straight sets. After this, Vladimir Alekno, Sergei Tetyukhin and Alexey Verbov left the team.
Russia reached the Euro 2017 final without losing a single game. In the final we beat Germany 3:2, Maxim Mikhailov was recognized as the best player of the tournament, but finisher Dmitry Volkov was no less worthy of this award. Volkov is only 22, he is one of the youngest players on the Russian national team. In the final he scored 14 points. When you find yourself a meter away from Volkov, you feel that the Russian team celebrated the victory properly.
We celebrated normally, the whole team sat together,” says Volkov. - In general, there’s not much time for celebrations. They gave me one day to rest, the championship will begin soon. And we just arrived from Poland yesterday in Moscow.
- Not “Victory”, by the way?
No no.
- How do you feel after the victory?
There is a sense of accomplishment, but now it’s more like devastation.
- What time did you manage to wake up today?
Around 12 o'clock somewhere.
A year ago in Rio, Russia finished only fourth, and sad Vladimir Alekno admitted: we cannot beat strong teams. What has changed since then?
Vladimir Alekno / Photo: © RIA Novosti/Ramil Sitdikov
It's hard to say. I don’t even know, more of a question for the coach, it’s not for me to judge. The winning mood was there then and now, we always went for first place. Now we have a lot of young people, some generational change has occurred. The result was a fusion of youth and experience.
- Sergei Shlyapnikov has been working in the national team for only seven months. What did he bring?
There is more discipline. She always comes first. Shlyapnikov worked like this all his life. I went through the entire youth program with him. I know this man, I know his methods of work.
- From your words we can conclude that this team is built around the leaders rather than the coach.
Well, yes. The old people rallied us a lot. A coach is one thing, but within the team we had a special relationship. Everyone encouraged each other, helped, and the elders gave advice.
- Previously, it was based on Tetyukhin?
Yes, but even now there are many important people for the team: Mikhailov, Grankin... We were all together, one clip.
- Can any of them push you like a young man?
When it was the fifth game, 11:10, Butko came up to me: “Volkov, don’t think about anything at all. You will have a lot more of these finals. I know how you can play." I was really worried, the excitement was overwhelming. This was my first chance to win a trophy at senior level. We won a lot in the youth team, but this is space.
- Commentators compared you with Tetyukhin. Did you look up to him in your youth?
Sergei is an idol and legend for all volleyball players. A man with a capital M, little man.
Sergey Tetyukhin / Photo: © RIA Novosti/Grigory Sysoev
- More often you are compared to Spiridonov: you are both very emotional on the court. How do you perceive this?
Those who don’t understand volleyball compare us. It’s not that it’s unpleasant for me, it’s just that we are completely different. We don’t know each other personally, and I don’t have any desire to.
- What do you think when you read the news about Alexey?
Yes, like everyone else.
- Is he spoiling the image of Russian volleyball?
Why? Vice versa. At least somehow it draws attention to our sport, well done.
- Compared to Alekno, Shlyapnikov seems less charismatic.
There is such a thing. He's not as emotional as some others. He always has order in the team, and he knows how to set things up. Before the fifth game in the final, he told us: “This is not a game, this is war.” And so it happened. Before this, we had not lost a single game.
Sergey Shlyapnikov / Photo: © RIA Novosti/Maxim Bogodvid
- Did you expect to see Germany in the final?
We thought the Serbs would come out. But the Germans played very well.
- When did you realize that you couldn’t miss the victory?
Then, when the last goal was scored. But then we were in seventh heaven! Everyone was screaming, cheering, it was just crazy.
- After the victory, you wrote on Instagram: “Easy skating rink.” Do you agree that you were lucky with your opponents?
Yes, I made this post more as a joke. It's not our problem that the favorites were quickly eliminated. Whoever wins is stronger. And we tuned in for every match.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYp-7J5FsBS/- What is this team capable of in Tokyo 2020?
We will work to perform well there. We have gifted people, we have an excellent team. Everyone on our team is very promising. We hope to repeat the success of London.
- Before the Euro, not everyone knew about the new generation of our volleyball players.
Let them watch more volleyball.
The most impressive thing that happened at the European Championship before Russia's victory was 65 thousand spectators at the match of the Polish national team.
Very cool, yes. Polish fans treated us well too. Many came up, took pictures, and congratulated.
-Have you ever seen something like this?
Only at the Olympics, at the opening ceremony. Then there was a full “Maracana”.
- When will volleyball fans like those in Poland appear in Russia?
I don't think it will be soon. It’s probably necessary that we don’t have football at all - we focus all our attention on it. There are times when there is too much football. They called me from Russia and asked if the final would be shown on TV - and for a long time I didn’t know what to answer. The final was staged, but how much football was staged before this?
- You have been playing for Fakel throughout your career. Do they like volleyball in Novy Urengoy?
Yes, this is the only sports team in the city. They go to Fakel, although I would like more.
- Do people recognize you on the streets?
We don't really hang out there. Try leaving the house in winter.
Dmitry Volkov / Photo: © Press service of VC “Fakel” Novy Urengoy
At the age of 18, you were diagnosed with Scheuermann-Mau disease, a curvature of the spine. You could have given up volleyball, right?
Of course, I didn’t play at all for a whole year. Several vertebrae are smaller than the rest - as I understand it, this was congenital. It accumulated gradually, and at the World Youth Championships I really felt: every day it gets worse. I played on painkillers, but in the end we won the gold. And only then I went to specialists.
- To Switzerland?
Including. It took a long time to strengthen my back. I worked out in the gym for a long time, pumped up my back, and did aerobic work. I gained about 25 kilograms, the pain went away on its own.
- Was the time without volleyball difficult?
Psychologically - very much. I always believed that I would return, although I was not sure that this would happen. It happened that despair came, I didn’t even know what to do next - there were no more options. My mother said that I could go to any technical university, but I only studied for the sake of my parents. All I can think about is volleyball.
How did you return to the game after such a long absence?
Thanks to Shlyapnikov. He then took me into the youth team, and together we won the European Championship. I wasn’t anywhere for a year, but Shlyapnikov trusted me. He knew what I was capable of.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYmOcvDFu6p/- They write that you are well-read and a believer.
I don’t go to church every day, but I try when possible. This is important to me. Before the European Championships, the whole team went to Novogorsk. I always carry small icons with me.
And books... I won’t say that I’m well-read. But if a book is interesting, I try to finish reading it. I especially love autobiographies of athletes. The last one I liked was the biography of Usain Bolt.
- You are from Novokuibyshevsk. Are you a fan of Krylia Sovetov?
I don’t root for our teams at all. I try not to even look. If you include the English Premier League and ours - well, this is heaven and earth.
Now I really like Manchester United. They are off to an encouraging start and I hope it stays that way throughout the season. Zlatan is still here, the legend. Although I like Pogba more. And in Real Madrid - Ronaldo, I also root for them. It is obvious that Real Madrid are the coolest in Europe now.
- How will our team perform at the World Championships next year?
It’s clear that they won’t leave the group.
- How will Spartak and CSKA play in the Champions League?
Also without playoffs, most likely.
- Russian football annoys you?
It's not annoying. Russian football players also work hard, just like us. Everyone says that they earn a lot of money - well, go and run at least like them. It’s clear that our players’ level is not like Ronaldo’s, it’s a matter of who studied for what.
Photo: globallookpress.com, RIA Novosti/Ramil Sitdikov, RIA Novosti/Grigory Sysoev, RIA Novosti/Maxim Bogodvid, Press service of VC Fakel Novy Urengoy
, Dynamo Krasnodar, Gubernia and the Russian youth team. He began playing volleyball in 2002 at the Sports and Youth Sports School of his hometown under the guidance of coach Svetlana Alekseevna Medvedeva.
In July 2011, he competed as part of the team of the Novokuybyshev SDYUSSHOR at the final competitions of the V Summer Spartakiad of Russian Students in the Volei Grad sports complex near Anapa. According to the results of the Spartakiad, the team from the Samara region took 4th place, and two of its players - team captain Dmitry Volkov and Denis Shenkel - received a call to the Russian junior team and the Novy Urengoy “Fakel”, on the basis of which it was formed.
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 age categories U21 and U23. On June 17, 2016, in Kaliningrad he made his debut in the Russian national team in a World League match with the Serbian team. In August of the same year, he performed at, and in the debut competition he served as captain of the national team. Based on the results of both final stages, he was recognized by the organizers as one of the best finishers.
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, and 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. 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?
- It's a difficult 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 Novokuybyshevsk, 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).
) - 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 age categories U21 and U23. On June 17, 2016 in Kaliningrad he made his debut in the Russian national team in the match
