OREANDA-NEWS. SK “Kirovets” team performing under the flag of OAO “Kirovskiy Zavod” became the overall winner of the traditional city track-and-field relay-race dedicated to Victory Day, reported the press-centre of OAO “Kirovskiy Zavod”.


The relay-race was held on 29th of April at the Palace Square. The best teams of the industrial enterprises and institutes of higher education from St. Petersburg were performing. During the last 20 years Kirovets does not yield the palm to any other teams of the industrial enterprises. This year our team had no equal even in overall point-count. When giving the cup to the winner team Kirovets, the chairman of the Government Committee for Physical Culture and Sports Vyacheslav Chazov said that it is a great pleasure for him to give this cup to the athletes of the first workers’ sports organization in Russia, which has recently celebrated its 93rd anniversary.