The TV channel “Russia 24” will show the film “Bold Plan. Universiade in Kazan”

(KZN.RU, October 13). On October 14, the TV channel “Russia 24” will show the film “The Bold Plan. Universiade”. The viewers will be reminded how preparations were made for the World Summer Student Games, which Kazan hosted in 2013, and how this global event influenced the development of sports in Tatarstan and its capital and launched a series of major international sports events in Russia.

The fact that the country needs major sporting events for the development of mass and professional sports has once been said by Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. The Universiade, which took place in Kazan, was one of the first major international events in the new history of Russia. After 5 years, the organizers of the World Student Games and their participants will remember how it all began. Mintimer Shaimiev, the State Councilor of the RT, the first President of the RT, Oleg Matytsin, the President of the FISU, Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Igor Shuvalov, the chairman of the “Vnesheconombank”, Vladimir Leonov, the minister of Sports of the RT, Maria Kiseleva, the three-time Olympic champion in synchronized swimming, Universiade volunteers, and city residents will speak. They will tell how the idea of holding the Universiade arose, about the defeat in the struggle for the right to host the 2011 games, about the second bidding campaign and winning it, about the unforgettable atmosphere of the holiday that the Games presented.

The screening of the film “Bold Plan. The Universiade” is scheduled for 9.05 am.