19 athletes from Tatarstan in Russia’s student team at Universiade
30 June 2009, Tuesday
Russian national student team takes part in the World Student Games in Belgrade, which starts on July 1. It includes 19 representatives from Tatarstan.
The team numbers 470 people – sportsmen, officials, coaches and medical staff.
The athletes will defend the honour of Tatarstan in Belgrade. These are basketball players Evgeny Voronov and Alexei Zhukanenko, water polo players Konstantin Stepanyuk, Pavel Katkov and Artyom Odintsov, swimmer Alexander Shimin, fencers Ramil Gaisin, Irina Radayeva and Kamilla Gafurzyanova (latter one in reserve), track-and-field athletes Nadezhda Sozntova (4x400 relay), Tatiana Shutova (10 kilometres), Olga Zainutdinova (overall), Aidar Gilyazov (110 metres), Yulia Borodovitsyna (long jump, in reserve), tennis player Ksenia Lykina and judoist Yekaterina Yelizarova.
The national team includes Zenit Kazan football club’s massage therapist Ramis Shiriyazdanov, fencing coach Irina Radayeva and the delegation staff member Alexander Kuznetsov.
Universiade in Belgrade will run from July 1 to 12.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
On January 20, the First President of Tatarstan, State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev celebrates its 89 birthday.
He received numerous congratulations from the state and regional leaders, public figures, figures in science, education and culture and residents of the country and Tatarstan.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.
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