Final tournament record
1998: quarter-finals
1994: quarter-finals

All-time competitive record
P101 W59 D14 L28

2013 qualifying (including play-off)
P10 W6 D3 L1 F21 A7
Top scorers: Fedor Smolov (7), Aleksandr Kokorin (5)
Ever presents: Nikolai Zabolotni

Russia U21s capped at senior level
Aleksandr Kokorin (12), Taras Burlak (1), Georgi Schennikov (1), Arseni Logashov (1), Fedor Smolov (1), Denys Cheryshev (1), Maksim Grigoryev (1)

Players with previous U21 final tournament experience
None

Most capped player
All-time: Oleg Kuzmin, Aleksandr Pavlenko (16)
Current: Fedor Smolov, Pavel Yakovlev (14)

Leading scorer
All-time: Spartak Gogniev (11)
Current: Fedor Smolov (8)

Biggest wins
Final tournament:
Russia 2-1 Romania 30/05/1998
1998 seventh-placed match, Lia Manoliu Stadium, Bucharest

Qualifying:
Luxembourg 0-10 Russia 06/06/2001
2002 qualifying group stage, Stade Municipal, Petange

Heaviest defeats
Final tournament:
France 2-0 Russia 08/03/1994
1994 quarter-finals, Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier  
Spain 2-0 Russia 24/05/1998
1998 quarter-finals, Cotroceni Stadium, Bucharest

Qualifying:
Portugal 3-0 Russia 10/10/2006
2007 play-off, Estadio Sampaio, Vila Nova de Gaia
Romania 3-0 Russia 03/09/2010
2011 qualifying group stage, Municipal Stadium, Botosani