Construction of Academy of figure skating begins in St. Petersburg

In a new building the sports base of the Academy of fugure skating will be situated. On this base the most perspective juniors in the age of 12-13 years from all Russia and also foreign sportsmen will train. Eminent trainers Alexey Mishin and Tamara Moskvina will take part in teaching in the Academy.

In opinion of heads of Saint Petersburg Federation of fugure skating, the new project - an original duty of city on Neva to figure skaters who for many years won gold awards at the international competitions, not having their own training base. It is expected, that the Petersburg school of figure skating will strengthen the positions at a world level.

As the press-secretary of Territorial management of Primorsky district Svetlana Solovjeva informs, the governor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Jakovlev, the president of Russian Federation of fugure skating Valentine Piseev, the chairman of coordination council on questions of sport of Saint Petersburg, the vice-governor of Saint Petersburg Konstantin Kondakov, eminent trainers and figure skaters, such as Tamara Moskvina, Eugeny Plyuszhchenko and Alexey Mishin will take part in solemn ceremony of foundation.

News source: regnum.ru