Volley Grad

At the beginning of 2005, at a meeting of the leaders of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VEF) with the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev , an agreement was reached on shared participation in the construction of playgrounds for beach volleyball in Vityazev ^[1] . At the insistence of the general manager of the VVF, Yuri Sapega, the initial scope of the project was also expanded on a 4.6-hectare site allocated by the region’s leadership, located on a picturesque spit three hundred meters from the Vityazevsky estuary and half a kilometer from the Black Sea , the construction of a volleyball complex for training Russian national teams in classical and beach volleyball. After the sudden death of Yuri Sapega, Stanislav Shevchenko became the main curator of the project.

Before the construction of sports facilities began, the wetland was primed and raised one and a half meters. The first phase of construction, which went into operation in the spring of 2007, included the construction of a volleyball hall for two sites, beach volleyball courts, a hotel with 64 seats, and in the second stage, an indoor beach volleyball hall, a swimming pool and a commercial hotel were put into operation. Also, work was carried out on the construction of its own complex of treatment facilities, a water well, a boiler room, a gas pipeline was stretched from the main highway to the sports base, as a result of which the facility became autonomous, independent from the Anapa community ^[2] . Further development of the “Will of the City” is aimed at turning it into a multifunctional sports and training base for representatives of various game and cyclic sports ^[3] .

Sports and fitness center "Volley Grad" includes:

• a volleyball hall with two platforms with a total area of ​​36 × 48 m with a ceiling height of 12.5 m, with the possibility of installing collapsible stands for 700 seats;
• a beach volleyball hall with two playgrounds with a total area of ​​36 × 48 m, heated sand;
• two beach volleyball courts on the Black Sea coast;
• four beach volleyball courts near the complex;
• a gym ;
• outdoor pool 25 m long and 1.9 m deep;
• two hotel complexes , cottages, presidential villa.

“Volley Grad” is a specialized training center for volleyball and beach volleyball masters; since 2009, training camps have been held for national teams of various ages, as well as club teams. With the advent of the sports base in Vityazev, volleyball players got the opportunity to train in a hall comparable in interior space to sports palaces, which facilitated the transition from a training regime to a competitive one, and beach volleyball players had an indoor hall for training and competitions in winter. In summer, parquet is laid in the hall for beach volition and the number of playing areas for classic volleyball is increased to four ^[3] .

Since 2010, Volley Grad has regularly held international beach volleyball tournaments indoors, Russian Winter ^[4] (in 2011, the competition received satellite status of the European Volleyball Confederation ) and the championship finals of Russia . The Vityaz club is based in Voley Grad, whose athletes have repeatedly become champions of the country in beach volleyball, there are also separate matches of the Super League volleyball with the participation of the women's and men's teams of the Krasnodar Dynamo, and the competitions of the All-Russian Olympics for Russian students.

In 2013, Volley Grad hosted several major international competitions: the qualifying tournament for the men's youth world championships, the II tournament of junior teams in memory of Yuri Chesnokov, and from July 23 to 28, the Anapa Open beach volleyball tournament was held here. Before, only Moscow and St. Petersburg ^{[5] [6]} accepted competitions in beach-will under the auspices of the International Volleyball Federation from Russian cities.

Volley Grad hosted competitions in a number of other sports, including Kickboxing World Cup, the international youth boxing tournament in memory of Nikolai Pavlyukov, the All-Russian Youth Martial Arts Games, the Russian Beach Soccer Cup , and the Russian Judo Championship among juniors and juniors .

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