[citation needed] The history of the club dates back to 1935, when the initiative of Anatoly Dmitriev at the Leningrad branch of the Spartak society volleyball team was created.
The summer of 1935, the club, along with Spartak teams from Moscow, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk participated in the first championship of the Central Council of the Spartacus League in volleyball, and losing just one game, it was the winner.
However, Yuri Aroshidze, the 1960 world champion, has become famous not only on the volleyball court - over the past two decades, he worked as chief engineer of the association Electrosila.
Ostrokombinatsionny, risky, fast volleyball, for which the Avtomobilist nicknamed "Hell Drivers" does not always lead to success - for coach experimentation team on the recognition of Vyacheslav Alekseevich, was paying shortfalls points in the championship.
Under the leadership of the Black team won the Russian championships in 1992 and 1993. on 20 December 1994 a talented coach heart stopped in the hall Odintsovo "Sparks" in a few minutes after the game with "Samotlor".
Team after 1995 did not show good results, but by the end of the championship of Russia-1997/98, in which she acted without foreign clubs to send Ruslan Zhbankova and Michael Chupris, a year has left the strongest Division Super League "A".
[citation needed] In the summer of 2002, when the team had already called at the time "Baltika", deprived of their leaders (Maxim Proskurnya moved to the "Dinamo", and Simon Poltava - in Italian Montichiari), it became very difficult.
In November 2007, the team happened extraordinary event: in it after 13 years in the Italian championship and two good seasons in Novokuibyshevsk NOVE, returned one of the favorite students of Vyacheslav Platonov - the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Seoul, 41-year-old Yuri Cherednikβ.
In the offseason, head coach Andrei Shcheglov was invited to the "Gazprom-Ugra" with him in Surgut moved binder Sergei Shulga, diagonal Vladimir Parhuta and libero Viktor Belov.
[8] Before the season-2013/14 club president Boris Koptin, known for his work in the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, a former long-term head of the "Motorist" Vladimir Samsonov took the position of vice-president.
[9] On the post of chief coach of the team is back Andrew Shcheglov, its composition strengthened experienced volleyball players, among them Vladimir Sukharev, Alex Luster, the champion of Russia in 1999 Sergei Samsonov and alumnus of the St. Petersburg club Andrei Nyrtsov.
In September 2015, Diagonal "Motorist" Sergei Piraino in the youth team of Russia won the gold medal at the World Championship in Mexico.
In the course of the season-2015/16 "Motorist" I missed four matches "A" Major League, having failed to find the funds for trips to Grozny and Georgievsk, so that the decision of the Executive Committee of All-Russian Volleyball Federation on January 29, 2016 the team was eliminated from the tournament.