‘Get Charged Up’ Festival: Football Stars and the Kurchatov Table Tennis Cup

The ‘Get Charged Up’ Festival of Energy and Sports will bring together energy companies and active individuals at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre on 20 February as part of Energy Day at the international RUSSIA EXPO. The festival programme is the work of RC-Sport, the Roscongress Foundation sports platform.

The festival will culminate in corporate snow football and table tennis tournaments.

Football stars Dmitry Alenichev, Dmitry Bulykin, Vladislav Radimov, and Yegor Titov will take part in the snow football tournament, scheduled for the All-Russian Exhibition Centre’s Great Exit Circle. The former Russian national football team players will take part in the tournament’s opening and closing ceremonies and an autograph session for everyone interested.

 The Kurchatov Cup table tennis tournament will be held in the Atom pavilion, which immerses guests in the world of nuclear technologies. The tournament has been named for the organizer and director of the Soviet nuclear weapons program Igor Kurchatov, who was a big fan of table tennis and known for playing with his colleagues. “Break time! Now everybody play ping-pong,” the great scientist could be heard to say almost every day. Kurchatov’s successors will follow the Soviet physicist’s example and play in the tournament that bears his name.

The corporate competitions will include teams from Gazprom Neft, RusHydro, Rosseti, Inter RAO, Mosgas, and Mosoblgaz among others.

Finally, the Energy Day concert on the All-Russian Exhibition Centre’s main stage will host draws for tickets to Spartak, CSKA, and Zenit matches sponsored by the energy companies.

The first ever ‘Get Charged Up’ Festival of Energy and Sports took place on 27 January at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre skating rink and was attended by Olympic champion Sergey Svetlov and world champion Maxim Afinogenov, who held hockey master classes. The decorated champions also took part in the ‘Getting Charged up with Hockey’ corporate programme for energy company teams. The festival wrapped up with the Evgeny Plushenko Fairy Tale ice show featuring Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya.

The Forum is being organized by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, and the Directorate of the Exhibition of Russia’s Achievements. The operator is the Roscongress Foundation.