On Saturday and Sunday the men's volleyball team "Academy-Kazan", farm-club of Kazan "Zenit", will open the season with two home matches of the championship of Russia of the highest League" A " against Nizhny Novgorod ask.
Recall that in the off-season "academics" seriously updated the composition. Five players moved to other clubs (the sixth – Herman Snegirev - ended the lease, and he returned to Belogorie). Moreover, the guys went "on the rise". Arseny Sarlybaev in novokuybyshevskaya "NOVA", Denis Shenkel – in" Torch "from Novy Urengoy (both clubs represent the super League), Dmitry Emelyanov and Dmitry Shevlyakov in clubs of the highest League (Chelyabinsk" Dynamo "and Orenburg" oilman", respectively).  But the outside hitter Andrew Surmacki joined the cast of "Zenit".
In return, the club rented a trio of super League teams and a couple of players from the Zenit-UOR youth team. Alexander Zlobin in parallel with the transfer to the "Academy-Kazan" also entered the Volga Academy.
The head coach of the "Academy" Konstantin Sidenko in August commented on the changes:
- It took us almost the entire first team. They're so cute. Played well and went on raising. Three super League team, and two teams that will qualify for an exit in the Superleague. In General, not somewhere, and in good team. And that not all in "Zenit", so after all this today the best team in world. There and some players of the Russian team can't hit. So, the farm club does its job for 150 percent!
Preparations for the season are complete. But our team is not in the optimal line-up for the starting matches. Nikita Lysov out of the game due to old injuries, for a good reason to miss meetings and Ignat Danilov. He trains with Zenit and is announced for Sunday's super League match
The first rival, the club ask was created after the volleyball "Nizhny Novgorod"ceased to exist for financial reasons. In 2016, ask debuted in the major League "B". By the way, ask Igor Shulepov, the famous Russian volleyball player known to Kazan citizens on performances for "Dynamo-TTG"trains.
Matches "Accademia-Kazan" and ask (Nizhny Novgorod" will be held on 13 and 14 October in the sports complex "Burevestnik". Beginning at 17.00.