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Short name
  
HC Dinamo Volgograd

Capacity
  
1,500

League
  
Russian League

Arena
  
"Dynamo"

Head coach
  
Viktor Ryabih

Date founded
  
1972

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Full name
  
Handball Club Dinamo Volgograd

Dinamo Volgograd (Russian: Динамо Волгоград) is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003.

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Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008 EHF Cup. In 2000 it became the first Russian team to reach the Champions League's semifinals since the USSR's break-up.

Honours

  • Women's EHF Cup
    • Winners (1): 2008
  • Women's EHF Challenge Cup
    • Winners (1): 1995
  • EHF Women's Champions Trophy
    • Winners (1): 1995
  • Russian League
    • Winners (12): 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    Current squad

    As of July 2016

    Famous players

  • Tatiana Alizar
  • Elena Chausova
  • Nadezda Muravyeva
  • Liudmila Bodnieva
  • Ksenia Makeeva
  • Asma Elghaoui

    • References

    Dinamo Volgograd Wikipedia
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