On August 8, the All-Russian day of physical culture
will be held in Gorky Park and at the Trudovue rezervy stadium in Kazan. Albert
Salikhov, the Chairman of the Committee of physical culture and sports, told
about the sports festival at the Business Monday meeting.
The festival will begin at 10.00 am with morning
warm-up with the participation of republican official, State Duma deputies, official
of Tatarstan Ministry of sports and Kazan Executive Committee.
At 11.00 am, a football tournament will be held
between the teams of the Executive Committee, the Ministry of sports of the
Republic of Tatarstan, teams of journalists, medical workers and football
referees.
At the same time, in the central part of the park, coaches
of Green Fitness will hold master classes in Zumba, yoga and stretching. There
will also be a breakdancing performance.
Albert Salikhov, Chairman of the Committee of physical
culture and sport, emphasized that the event will be held in compliance with
all sanitary and epidemiological requirements.
A healthy lifestyle is one of the main priorities for
the development of modern society, I. Metshin noted. “When we wrote the United
Russia party program providing for the five-year health plan, we doubted that
citizens involvement in sports would be high. At that time only 18% of the
Kazan citizens were constantly engaged in sports, and now - 50%. We set the
next bar high – in 5 years, 60% of citizens should be engaged in sports”, - the
Mayor of Kazan said.