The FISU Flag arrives in Perm
PERM – The ‘Universiade in Your City!’ train arrived on September 3rd inPerm, where the FISU Flag Relay delegation received an amazingly warm welcome.
The Kazan 2013 delegation was met at thePermtrain station by Ruslan Sadchenko, Deputy Minister of Sports and Physical Culture of thePermTerritory, as well as by over 300 students of the city’s largest higher education institutions, creative bands and celebrated sportsmen of Perm, winner of Shenzhen 2011 Summer Universiade Abdul Omarov among them.
While greeting the Kazan 2013 delegation, Deputy Minister Ruslan Sadchenko said: «We are having an amazing festival of youth and sports inPermtoday! Our fellow-countrymen have successfully defended the country’s sports honor at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, and our next goal now is to win a triumph at the 2013 Universiade inKazan. Youth ofPermare ready to contribute to the preparations for the Universiade and to prove that Russia is the most hospitable country that is able to conduct the best international youth and sports festival!»
In return, Larisa Sulima, Advisor to the Director General and Chief of Staff of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate, expressed her gratitude for an amazingly warm welcome. «Your hospitality and enthusiasm that are written all over your faces, are the best proof that the 2013 Summer Universiade is a grand project for the whole ofRussia. You were with us during the Kazan 2013 bid campaign, when Kazan was collecting signatures in support of the 2013 Summer Universiade to be held in Russia, and today we are in the same team again. I’m confident that together we can stage the best World University Games in the world. Today we give you a symbolical gift, a hundredweight of salt that we will have to ‘eat’ together in the preparations for the Games in Kazan. May we overcome all difficulties!», Larisa Sulima summed up.
Timur Suleimanov, President of the Tatarstan Student League and leader of the Creative Youth Academy Alsu Valeeva presented the hosts with chak-chak, a traditional Tatarstan dessert, and expressed confidence that «the cooperation between the regions united by the FISU Flag Relay is destined to be successful and will bring joy to thousands of students throughout Russia. Together, we can do everything!»
The greeters were chanting ‘Russia!Kazan! Universiade!’ and welcomed theFISUFlag enthusiastically. Uni, the snow leopard kitten, the mascot of the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan, became the most popular guest, since he got all the attention of both students and media.
After a solemn welcome, the Kazan 2013 delegates andPermstudents headed to Perm State National Research University. Igor Makarikhin, Rector of one of the largest and oldest universities of the Ural, extended a warm welcome to the guests from Tatarstan near the entrance to the main building of the university, where the Flowers of the Universiade event took place. The first flowers were planted by Igor Makarikhin, Larisa Sulima, Igor Sivov, Timur Suleimanov, Alsu Valeeva and Kazan 2013 Ambassador Dilyara Vagapova.
The celebrations dedicated to the FISU Flag Relay in Perm evolved on the premises of the Perm Fair, which also became a venue for meetings with students and a ceremony of signing a cooperation agreement between the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate and Perm State National Research University.
The ‘Universiade in Your City!’ concert headlined by the Murakami rock band took place in the Extreme Park.
The FISU Flag Relay kicked off on August 30th from the Millennium Square in Kazan. The FISU Flag is being escorted by Sberbank of Russia CIT guards, in a steel-plated box. An exact replica of the flag will be left in each city on the route of the FISU Flag Relay.
(Source: Media Department of Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate)
Uni, the snow leopard
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