(Kazan City
KZN.RU, December 29, Ksenia Shvetsova). Today at the City Hall the ceremony of
awarding of the winners of the Games of state and municipal employees of the
Republic of Tatarstan in 2015 was held. The team members of the Executive
Committee of the city got the letters of thanks from Mayor of Kazan Ilsur
Metshin.
This year
the program of the Games included competitions in eight sports: skiing,
volleyball, badminton, mini football, swimming, athletics, chess and table
tennis. At the end of the competition the team of the municipality of the city
of Kazan won the first place in the fourth time in a row, thus confirming the
status of the sports capital of Russia.
"It is
nice to celebrate our achievements on the eve of the New Year, and this victory
is especially important for us - said I. Metshin. - For us it is a great honor
- to confirm that we are the best for the fourth time and rightly called the
sports capital. It is one thing to show results in professional work, and quite
another - to win on the sports field. I congratulate you and wish the same
victories in the future - in work and in sports".
Among others
Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of the Russian Federation, the
general director of FC "Rubin" Ilgiz Fakhriev, with whom the team of Executive
Committee was honored with the title of champion three times, and chairman of
the Committee of Physical Culture and Sports of the Executive Committee of
Kazan Svetlana Vostrikova received letters of thanks.
Victory in
the competition of mini-football has brought a decisive victory in the Spartakiade
- thanks to a successful game team of the Executive Committee was the best.
Volleyball team, in the final beaten the team of Nizhnekamsk municipal
employees, also took first place.
By the way,
this year swimming competition was held for the first time, in which in relay 4
at 50 there was not equal team as Executive Committee of Kazan. In addition,
for the first time in 4 years the team managed to climb to the highest step of
the podium in badminton. Victories of these and other teams - in chess, skiing,
athletics, table tennis - allowed the team of the municipality of the city of
Kazan to be the best among the municipalities of the republic.