Yekaterinburg to host ice skating championship in 2015

November 1, 2013. Holding the world computer programming championship in Yekaterinburg was made possible thanks to the fact that the city can boast a developed IT community, Vice Rector of Ural Federal University and the ACM ICPC coordinator in Yekaterinburg Dmitri Bugrov. 'We applied for the right to host the championship in 2016 and were hoping that the application would be approved for that year or for the next. Yet we actually won the privilege for the year 2014, and this is going to be the second time the ACM ICPC will be held in Russia. This is possible due to the fact that

June 23, 2014. Contestants in and visitors to the 38th World Computer Programming Championship ACM-ICPC 2014 are beginning to arrive in Yekaterinburg. The event coordinators expect 1,200 students (representatives of 243 universities from 49 different countries) to come to the championship altogether. The computer programming championship will be held in Yekaterinburg on June 22-26. The first selection stage will take place at Uralochka Sports Center, and the final stage will take place at Cosmos Concert Hall. An entertainment program will also be presented to visitors to Yekaterinburg at

July 12, 2013. A presentation of ACM-ICPC 2014, a computer programming championship for student teams, was given at Yekaterinburg's stand at the Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum, the city council's press service reports. Ural Federal University First Vice Rector Dmitri Bugrov, who is in charge of coordinating the contest, told the visitors to the stand that this Mundial would be held on July 22-25. This year, Saint Petersburg offered the site for holding the ACM-ICPC, and next year, the Urals' capital will take over from the Northern Capital. Every

September 24, 2013. There are no grounds to say that Yekaterinburg might be excluded from the program for hosting the World Football Championship matches in 2018, RIA Novosti refers to FIFA's Head of Media Delia Fischer as saying to R-Sport. The Russian media reported earlier that the authorities might decide to relocate the World Cup matches from Yekaterinburg to Krasnodar – the latter also applied for the right to host the championship but did not make it to the shortlist of candidates. Head of Russia 2018 Coordination Committee Alexei Sorokin denied the possibility of indicating

September 30, 2014. Yekaterinburg is going to host the European table tennis championship in 2015: the city’s application was recently approved by the European Table Tennis Union’s congress. ‘This decision is the result of our ongoing efforts aimed at the development of table tennis in Sverdlovsk Region, this is the result of local tennis players’ achievement, and the result of Sverdlovsk Region’s international acclaim,’ says Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Physical Education, Sports, & Youth Policy Leonid Rapoport. The European table tennis championship is to take place on September