37 sportsmen to present Republic Tatarstan in summer Universiade-2011 in Shenzhen (China)

Number of citizen in Tatarstan regular going in for sports makes on the beginning of 2011 year 23,15%. Positive dynamics has been outlined for all categories of the population reported RT Vice Minister of youth, sports and tourism Halil Shaikhutdinov at the House of RT Government session.

Briefing was devoted to developing physical culture and sports in the republic in the context of forthcoming Day of physical culture held in the republic sine 1980.

By words of Halil Shaikhutdinov, today a parameter of going in for sports and physical culture as a whole in Russia makes 18,5% and Tatarstan holds 10th place among the RF subjects in this regard.

A big attention is heeded in Tatarstan to developing children-youth sports. Presently, more 98 ths. children on 67 kinds of sports are being trained at 158 children-youth sports schools including schools of Olympic reserve. This is about 25% оf total number of school year children. Only in 2011 3 sports schools have been opened in two municipal regions of the republic ( one in Arsk and two in Aznakai regions), that enabled additionally to attract 1312 children in sports.