Our city is ready to welcome ICG - Ufa administration

UFA, 8 July 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

On July 6, the leadership of the Ufa administration inspected the sports facilities and locations for the International Children's Games, having visited the Ufa-Arena Palace, the Directorate for Preparing the Games, the climbing wall in the Vatan Ethnic Park, the Agidel Sports Training Center, Holiday Inn Hotel, Akbuzat Hippodrome, Kashkadan Recreation Park, Sports School No. 32.

The great sports event will be held in the capital of Bashkortostan from July 9 to July 14. About 1,200 athletes from 84 cities in 29 countries, including Australia, Canada, USA, China, Mexico, Great Britain, Holland, Slovenia, will take part in the Games. Total, Ufa is preparing to welcome more than 2 thousand guests from all over the globe.

Young athletes will compete in nine Olympic sports: athletics, swimming, fencing, Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, mini-football, 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball, and rock climbing.

The opening ceremony of the Games will be held at the "Ufa-Arena" on July 10. The program of the ceremony includes a traditional parade of athletes, a performance of artists and the presentation of the official anthem of the 53rd Summer Games performed by the participants of the Voice-Children project and vocal and choreographic groups. The audience will enjoy a light show using projectors and a screen of 200 square meters.

The opening ceremony can be watched live on TV channels "Match-Strana", BST, "All Ufa".

From July 8 to July 15, a 24-hour Information Center will be deployed at the Directorate for Preparing for the Games at Z. Validi 1. Today the Information Center is fully operational. Besides, Ufa hotels are ready to accommodate sports delegations and guests of the children's sports forum.

The Agidel Sports Training Center will hold competitions in four sports: fencing, swimming, Greco-Roman wrestling and athletics. The center is ready for conducting the Games. Its main feature is three pools - 50, 25 and 12 meters.

Kashkadan Recreation Park will host matches in beach volleyball and basketball 3x3. The sports school No. 32 - judo competitions. Football matches will take place at the “Neftyanik” stadium. Matches can be watched live on TV channels “Match-Strana”, BST and “All Ufa” on July 13.

Climbing competitions will be held on the artificial rock installed at Vatan Park. A solemn closing ceremony of the Games will take place here on July 13, during which the title of the host of the Summer Games will be transferred from Ufa to the Hungarian city of Kecskemet. The ceremony will begin with a procession of sports delegations from Salavat Yulaev Square along Z. Validi Street to the lower platform of Vatan Park. Festive fireworks and entertainments are planned at the closing ceremony.

Also on July 13, a project of the General Sponsor of the Games - PJSC Gazprom – “Football for Friendship” will be implemented, as part of which young ambassadors of the program from Bolivia, India, China, the Netherlands, and Russia will arrive in Ufa.

The city is ready to host the Games, the main task of the organizers is to conduct them at a high level, showing participants the hospitality and national flavor of the capital of Bashkortostan, summed up the Ufa Mayor Ulfat Mustafin.