Bashkortostan is among most sporting regions of our country
UFA, 27 December 2016. /Bashinform News Agency, Arina Rakhimkulova/. Bashkortostan entered the Top-5 regional sports rating. Experts estimated the sports infrastructure facilities, the number of championships hosted in the region, number of people engaged in sports, RBC-Ufa reports.
The rating was prepared by the "Soviet Sport" newspaper. Bashkiria took the fourth place in the list of the Russian regions. The Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan were head of it.
"The main criteria were the number and condition of the sports infrastructure facilities, the number of regional, federal and international tournaments carried out in the regions, the total number of teams competing permanently in the regional and federal sporting events", explained the rating compilers.