New Sports and Recreation Center Has Opened in Ufa

Author: Foreign Economic Relations Department

A new sports and recreation center has opened this week in Ufa fuel and energy college. The president of Bashkortostan Republic, Murtaza Rakhimov, the minister of physical culture, sport and tourism, Vladimir Samorodov, the minister of education, Zinnat Allayarov, the head of Ufa City Municipal District Administration, Pavel Kachkaev and other official persons participated in the grand opening.
Sport is very popular in our Republic. There are about 1200 sports objects in Ufa. More than 200 thousand citizens go in for sports on a regular basis. Approximately 2000 sports events are held in Ufa annually. The sportsmen from Ufa are successful in republican, all-Russia and international competitions.
It took one and a half year to build the new sports and recreation center. More than 30 mln roubles were expended, 22 mln of which were from the republican budget.