Nikita Lyamin

Career Indoor volleyball Nikia Lyamin started playing volleyball at the Children's and Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve No. 4 in Nizhny Novgorod, under the guidance of his father, Andrey. After finishing the sports school in 2002, Lyamin moved to the local team "Dinamo-UVO", a club in the highest Russian league.

In 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin quickly started playing outside Russia. In early July, he and Ruslan Bykanov won silver at the Eastern European Championship in Rokiškis and debuted at the Gstaad Grand Slam in 2014. The Russian duo did not show great results at this and the following two tournaments, so Lyamin teamed up with Dmitry Barsuk.

In August, Lyamin left Guberniya and fully concentrated on beach volleyball. His goal was to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The new duo competed on three tournaments, qualifying in Stare Jablonki and São Paulo and winning bronze at the Xiamen Open.

In the new 2015 season, Lyamin injured his shoulder and in May underwent surgery, making a break in his career six months long. He revived in December, and with Barsuk became runners-up at the Riga tournament of the East European Championships. Following their successful partnership, Lyamin/Barsuk qualified for the Olympics in Rio-de-Janeiro. The coaching staff of Barsuk and Lyamin supported this decision. In 17 July, the duo took the bronze medal at the Russian Championships in Sochi.

At the Olympics, the Russians won two of three matches in their group. They defeated 2015 World Championships bronze medallists, Brazilians Oliveira/Salgado. They lost in the quarterfinals to the Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai in a tight game, 18–21, 22–20, 11–15.

After the Olympic Games, Barsuk retired from international career. In 2017, Lyamin's new partner became Viacheslav Krasilnikov, who formerly played with Konstantin Semenov. On 18 February, the new duo won their first joint title, winning at the Kish Island Open.

Lyamin and Krasilnikov entered the semifinals of the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships, but they lost to Austrians Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst. They eventually won the bronze medal after winning Christiaan Varenhorst and Maarten van Garderen, from the Netherlands.

Personal life Lyamin has a younger brother, Pavel (born 1994), who played youth volleyball for the club "Sormovich" from Nizhny Novgorod and "Neftyantik-2" from Orenburg. Their father, Andrey Valentinovich Lyamin, works as a volleyball coach at the Children's and Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve No. 4.