History of volleyball

Considered to be the inventor of volleyball, William G. Morgan, a teacher of physical education college YMCA in Holyoke (Massachusetts, USA). In 1895, at the gym, he hung a tennis net at a height of 197 cm and his students, which number at the site is not limited to, began to throw the basketball through her camera. Morgan called the new game "mintonet." A year later, at a conference of colleges in the Young Men's Christian Association Sprinfilde at the suggestion of Professor Alfred T. Halsted game got a new name - "Volleyball". And in 1897 in the United States published the first rules of volleyball.
    At the beginning of the twentieth century "flying ball" originated in Canada, Japan, the Philippines, Burma, India, Mexico. During World War 1 volleyball began to spread in Europe, including in Russia.
    In our country started playing volleyball in Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, and later - in Moscow.
    The official date of birth of the national volleyball considered to be June 28, 1923, when Moscow hosted a friendly game of volleyball players of higher art and theater workshops and the State Film School.
    In 1932, the Union was formed volleyball section in 1959 - Volleyball Federation of the USSR.
    In 1933, he was the first championship of the USSR. The first four were called the All-Union volleyball tournament celebrations, which involved teams of Moscow and Leningrad. Gorky, Rostov-on-Don, Sverdlovsk, Baku, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Minsk, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Kharkov. And the USSR championship club teams have been held since 1938
    In this period of volleyball in the country was a truly massive game. The recognized leaders of the national volleyball considered M.Vihreva. E.Voyt, Z.Kozlova, O.Kocherzhinskaya, O.Neugodova, V.Oskolkova, K.Prokofeva, K.Topchieva, N.Alekseev, B.Arefev, Yu.Bagon, A.Baryshnikov, M.Vilrat, V. Demidov, B.Nolde, A.Ponomarev, A.Rusanov, A. Stepanov, E.Filatov, Filippov. A.Chinilin, A.Yakushev, laid the foundation for the national school volleyball.
    After World War II the leading position in the country concerned with women's team "Lokomotiv", "Dinamo", "Spartak" (Moscow), "Spartacus" (Leningrad) and male - "Dinamo", CDKA (Moscow), UP (Leningrad), " Spartacus "(Kiev), which were outstanding masters T.Baryshnikova, A.Zharova, M.Kononova, S.Kundirenko, T. Petrova, V.Ozerova, A.Ponomareva, V.Sviridova, A.Chudina, P.Voronin , V.Gaylit, S.Nefedov, M.Pimenov, K.Reva, V.Savvin, V.Ulyanov, V.Schagin, A.Eyngorn, A.Yakushev, who won gold medals at the first World and European Championships.
    Back in 1924, the Olympic Games were held in Paris exhibition matches in volleyball, during which the United States Volleyball Association has taken the initiative to include volleyball in the official program of the Olympic Games. However, the Olympic volleyball was recognized only in 1957 at the IOC session in Bulgaria. A first volleyball tournament of the Olympic Games was held after 7 years in Tokyo. In women, the highest team won Olympic medals in Japan, the USSR, China and Cuba, and men - teams of the USSR, Japan, Poland, the USA, Brazil and the Netherlands.
    In 1947, in Paris, at the initiative of the representatives of Belgium, Brazil, Hungary, Egypt, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, United States, Uruguay, France, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia was formed by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). Union volleyball section (later Volleyball Federation of the USSR) was adopted by the FIVB year later, and the Volleyball Federation of Russia - a member of the FIVB in 1992, currently brings together the FIVB 218 national federations and the number of its members is the largest sports organization in the world.
    FIVB spends the next competition: World Championships (since 1949 for men since 1952 for women), the World Cup (since 1965 for men since 1973 for women), World Grand Champions Cup (since 1993) , World League (1990 men), Grand Prix (since 1993 for women), Junior World Championships (since 1977), the world championship among girls and boys (since 1989). In recent years, the frequency of the FIVB competition is as follows: annual World League and the Grand Prix every 2 years - world championships for girls, juniors, four times a year - the World Cup, World Cup, World Cup champions.
    The development of volleyball in their regions are also involved in Asian, African and European Confederation, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean countries and the Confederation of the Americas.
    National Volleyball Federation (FIVB) was founded in 1991 and since 1992 - the successor to the Federation of the USSR in all international sporting associations. Currently holds IEF championship and the Cup of Russia, Cup of Siberia and the Far East, the championship of Russia among young men and women veterans of the All-Russia competitions.
    In the domestic volleyball brought up a large galaxy of world-class players: E.Artamonova, L.Buldakova, E.Godina, S.Gorbunova, T.Gracheva, L.Kalenik, M.Kumysh, G.Leonteva, L.Loginova, L.Mihaylovskaya, N.Morozova, V.Ogienko, M.Pankova, N.Radzevich, A.Ryzhova, I.Ryskal, R.Salihova, T.Sarycheva, T.Sidorenko, Igor Smirnov, N.Smoleeva, E.Tischenko, T. Tretyakov, E.Tyurina, L.Tyurina, L.Chernysheva, I.Bugaenkov, N.Burobin, Yu.Vengerovsky, D.Voskoboynikov, G.Gaykovoy, S.Dineykin, V.Dorohov, Zaitsev, A.Ermilov, Kazakov, V. Kovalenko, V.Kondra, V. Kravchenko, A. Kuznetsov, E.Lapinsky, V.Loor, O.Moliboga, G.Mondzolevky, R.Olihver, S.Orlenko, Yu.Panchenko, Y. Poyarkov A.Savin, P.Selivanov, E.Sibiryakov, A.Sorokalet, Yu.Starunsky, S.Tetyuhin, K.Ushakov, N.Fasahov, D.Fomin, V.Hamuttskih, Yu.Chesnokov, O.Shatunov, I.Shulepov, R.Yakovlev and many others.
    Throughout the world, recognized the authority of our coaches G.Ahvlediani, Yu.Klescheva, N.Karpolya, V.Platonova, A.Yakusheva.
    There is also another kind of game - the beach-will (beach volleyball, beach volleyball). In volleyball on the sand in their twenties - thirties played in Bulgaria, Latvia, USSR, USA, France, Czechoslovakia. Beach-will from the two players on the court came to the U.S. in 1930 at the end of the twentieth-century scourge will get very widespread in the world and in 1993 at the IOC session in Monte Carlo, he was recognized as an Olympic sport.
    Now the official calendar of the FIVB includes the following competitions beach-willed: tournaments in the program of Olympic Games (since 1996), World Championships (since 1987 for men since 1992 for women) and the World Tour (with 1989 for men, with 1993 women), stages (tournaments) for the season which are held in different countries.
    In the USSR, the first official competitions in beach-willed were held in 1986 In 1989, the Cup was played in Moscow and in the same year for the first time has been played USSR Cup for men. In 1989, the Soviet Union volleyball players made their debut in the World Championships and World Tour.
    The first championship of Russia on the beach-the will was held in 1993 and in the same year our volleyball players were the first European Championships. Women's Team Russia for the first time made at the European Championships in 1994 and a year later took their debut in the World tour.
    Now Calendar IEF on the beach-willed includes: the championship of Russia (since 1995 takes place as a national series with the stages in different cities), Russian championship among girls, boys and veterans.
    In late 2000, the International Volleyball Federation summed up the results of the contest "The best of the twentieth century." In the category "Best Player" special awards were Inna Ryskal and Konstantin Reva, and in the category "Best Coach" - Givi Akhvlediani and Vyacheslav Platonov.