October 27, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitali Mutko thanked Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko for the preparation of sportsmen for the XXI Summer Deaf Olympic Games  to be held on September 05-15, 2009 in Taipei (Taiwan).

It is said in the text of the letter that the great contribution  to the victory of the combined team of Russia was made by sportsmen from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug who won 3 medals. Vladimir Shmygin and Pavel Fatin became volleyball champions. Maxim Bgan won a silver medal in track-and-field. "We hope that our further cooperation in the sphere of adaptive physical culture and sport development will let us be the leader  in the international sports movement of deaf people raising the authority of Russia in the world community", - emphasized Vitali Mutko.

He also said that with the support of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism of Russia the issue about awarding sportsmen and their coaches with financial prizes according to the results of the Deaf Olympic Games (equal to the prizes for participants of the Olympic and Paralympic Games).

About 2,5 ths. sportsmen from 80 countries of the world participated in the XXI Summer Deaf Olympic Games. For the first time in the history Russia was the first among teams of other countries having won 98 medals (29 gold, 41 silver and 28 bronze medals).

October 27, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The Czech concern "CKD GROUP, a.s." is going to implement several large-scale projects in Ugra. Chair of the Board, Director General of the concern Yan Musil said about that.

Governor of the Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko at the meeting with the Czech delegation said about great potential of the region. He proposed to organize a plant in Ugra, based on the concern’s technologies and its engineer support but taking into account the possibilities of the Autonomous Okrug.

Director General of the concern said that the enterprise was interested in long-term and partner relations to  involve  local companies and labor force of the region into concrete projects.

The Czech concern also is going to open its office in Ugra to promote to more productive and closer cooperation with the region. The enterprise works in Russia and participates in construction, modernization and development of energy and housing - communal sector facilities. In spite of the crisis all the projects of the concern are financially supported by the Czech Export Bank.

October 27, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

In the frames of the of the I All-Russia forum "Russia -a sport country" to be held in Kazan on October 22-24 Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko was handed an Olympic Chess torch. This flame was lit up for the first time and now the tradition will be continued as in 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk will be the venue of the World Chess Olympiad. This symbolic start to the Russian sports movement  will be followed by students’ games in Kazan in2013 and Olympiad in Sochi in 2014.

The chairman of the Okrug Committee for Physical Culture and Sport Viktor Maygurov and Director of the institution "UgraMegaSport" informed journalists from Ugra about that at the press-conference.

The sports forum in Kazan gathered over 3 ths. participants  including  over 20 governors of the RF regions, representatives of the federal government.

The main goal of Ugra participation at this Forum was to promote the region as a dynamically-developing sports territory. The example for that is hosting in Khanty-Mansiysk  the World Chess Olympiad in autumn of 2010 and Biathlon World Championships in 2011.

Viktor Maygurov said that President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev highly assessed the regional government’s activities in the development of sport in the region and promised to assist in the preparation of coming events. He also emphasized that in November in Khanty-Mansiysk it would be held the meeting of the Organizing Committee  with the participation of President of the Chess Federation in Russia, Deputy Chairman of the RF Government Alexander Zhukov and representatives of the RF Ministry of Sport. The main issue will become the discussion of the readiness for the coming Olympiad.

October 27, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

At the XXI All-Russia Championships for Bodybuilding, Fitness and Body-Fitness (teams, Individual)  to be held   in Khanty-Mansiysk last week-end  Ugra athletes  won 2 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals. 

Ugra hosted the national tournament for the first time. The tournament gathered 200 top athletes from 34 Russian regions. 22 sportsmen from Ugra participated in the competitions.

The golden medals were won by Radmila Alieva, Alina Shamsumukhametova in the category "Bodyfitness-juniors", "Fitness-girls". Our sportsmen Anna Zubrilina and Yulia Postika won silver medals in the same categories.  Among juniors in body-fitness a bronze medal was won by Eva Dolgopolova. Radmila Alieva was the  third by the results of her performances in the category "Bodyfitness - over 168 cm".

Among men the best results were demonstrated by Rustam Gasanagaev - the second position in the category "Bodybuilding-men under 90 kg" and Ildar Akhmetzyanov - the third in the category "Classical bodybuilding under 180 cm". The winners of the XXI All-Russia Championships for Bodybuilding, Fitness and Body-Fitness  will defend Russia at the World Championships among juniors and veterans (Poland) and World Men’s Championship (Qatar).

The competitions caused great interest of townsmen and guests of the town. Tribunes of the Tennis Sport Development Center while two days were overcrowded. Over 20 ths. people from 62 countries including Belgium, USA, China, Ukraine watched on-line with comments by the Absolute European Champion, Repeated Champion of Russia Pavel Kirilenko.

The level of organizing the tournament was highly assessed by President of the Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation of Russia Vladimir Dubinin. He said that Khanty-Mansiysk can become the venue of the World Fitness and Bodybuilding Championship or European Championships. Vladimir Dubinin awarded Kirill Morozov, President of the Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation of Ugra, with a gold medal of the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation for the development of bodybuilding.