SKB-Bank organized a cabbage-throwing contest in Surgut on November 4, 2007 (a state holiday in Russia and the day the bank celebrated its 17th anniversary). The championship was held in a square next to Surgut State University; the agenda of the event included both the cabbage-throwing proper and other entertaining activities like round dancing, cabbage volleyball, and treating people to cabbage pies and cabbage-filled pancakes.


A 29-year-old plumber Vyacheslav Soldatov, whose cabbage flew a distance of forty-seven meters, won the first prize of $300. Such championships have already been held in Chelyabinsk (where the longest cabbage flying trajectory reached 31 meters), Yekaterinburg (39 meters), Tyumen (where the record was set at 56 meters), and Nizhnevartovsk (34 meters).