Sports
Norilsk Nickel FC mascot waits for its name
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Today, a footballet (football + samolet (russian for aircraft) = footballet) arrived in Norilsk from Moscow. This is how the Norilsk Nickel players call the Boeing-737–800 with a unique design. The tail of the plane has the FC logo: a growling polar bear with ...
The Potanin Foundation held Sports’ Social Effects meeting
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Sports’ Social Effects meeting of the annual conference Sport and Society: Energy of Change was held in Krasnoyarsk. The city became the third venue for the event, which was organized as part of the foundation’s charitable program Power of Sports, it is designed ...
Norilsk hosted futsal Media League super final
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Both teams admitted that the main thing in the meeting was the desire to bring joy to the fans. But the game takes its toll, and it always has its winners. In the first and so far only polar super final, the reigning Media ...
Unique futsal match to take place in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Top-class media football is coming to Norilsk - the most titled media football teams of Russia - Broke Boys and 2DROTS. In July, they played for the Media Football League fifth season’s champion title, and now they are going to the Arctic again to ...
Norilsk boxer becomes fifth at world championship among juniors
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the first time in the history of Norilsk boxing, an athlete from our city Oleg Klyuchagin, an athlete of sports school No. 4, got the right to compete in the Russian national team at the world championship. It was held in Budva, Montenegro ...
Northern all-around championship starts in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The grand opening of the Taimyr northern all-around championship in memory of Hansuta Yaptune took place in the Dudinka sports complex. The participants were welcomed by Pavel Tomchik, Taimyr deputy head for social and political work, Alexander Ivanov, the district council of deputies’ chairman’s first ...
Norilsk sports funding to increase
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The deputies of the commission on social policy of the Norilsk city council considered the draft amendment to the Physical Education and Sports Development municipal program. Its funding volume is proposed to be increased. The municipal competitions resulted in savings of 12.2 million rubles. At ...
Futsal Junior League matches to be held in Norilsk first time
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Two youth teams of the Norilsk Nickel mini-football club, consisting of players under 16 and 18, will play matches against their peers from Moscow CSKA in the first round of the Russian Junior League. Games of this level will be held in Norilsk for ...
Norilsk boxer to compete in World Junior Championship
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Oleg Klyuchagin, a graduate of sports school No. 4 (coaches Maxim Trofimov and Vladimir Laznik), has been included in the national team to participate in the World Championship. The athlete received an invitation having had a number of successful performances: at the Russian Championships, where ...