SPORTS ACTIVITY

The main task of the sports activity at the University is to draw as many teachers and students as possible in systematic sports training to improve their health.

The basket -ball match

There is a proper material base and qualified specialists for solving this task.

The inter-courses sports meeting. Mini-football and volley-ball matches

The ping-pong section

Basket-ball, volley-ball, karate, kick-boxing, track-and-field athletics, mini-football, ping pong, calisthenics, football, chess sections are constantly functioning at the University. There are students' health-improvement groups.

In the students' hostels there are sports clubs, sports rooms where the youth may train with weights, dumb-bells, bars and play draughts and chess as well.

Many workers attend different health-improving groups, their children going in for eastern wrestling, mini-football, tennis, calisthenics etc.

Annually the students form course teams, group teams, hostel teams to contest during the sports festival.

The athletics section

The chess match

Every year combined teams of the University take part in different sport-mass events of the city and the region, compete with the teams of the other educational establishments in friendly matches.

The teaching staff organizes its own sports festival in 5 kinds of sports, such as badminton, mini-football, ping-pong, tennis and chess.

In 2001 the "Red Guelder-rose" educational and recreational base began its functioning, having become an important event in the life of the University. While having a rest the teachers and the students may go in for different kinds of sport, such as tennis, badminton, football, running, and swimming in summer.

Together with the mass physical training the University brings up qualified sportsmen. For the last 5 years 5 students became Masters of Sports, 15 – Sports Candidates, 47 - First-grade Athletes.