On June 9, personnel of AO Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg (SP SPb) took part in an annual clean-up event at the premises of sport shooting club Olimpiyets and adjacent territory of the Sosnovka park.
The club personnel provided the volunteers with rakes, gloves, large boxes for garbage as well as paint and rollers. Representatives of different SP SPb departments collected fragments of clay targets, dry leaves and grass and repainted some elements of sport equipment. The clean-up event gathered more than 50 participants.
The port has been traditionally paying special attention to the development and financing of social programmes. In particular, the company is providing assistance to the Training Center for young sportsmen at the Olimpiyets facilities which is under the patronage of SP SPb.
Clay target training at the Center is free for children thanks to Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg. For a little over a decade the school has brought up eight master sportsmen, 11 sub-master sportsmen, 40 first-rank sportsmen, more than 90 sportsmen of the second and the third ranks as well as champions and winners of national competitions and championships.
AO Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg is the largest operator, rendering services on handling of all types of dry cargoes at Big Port St. Petersburg. It operates modern multipurpose specialized terminals for handling of general and bulk cargoes and specialized terminals for ro-ro cargoes and containers. In 2017, the company handled 6.9 million tonnes of cargo.
Sport shooting center Olimpiyets in the Sosnovka park is a fully equipped training ground for professional and amateur shooters. The Olimpiyets equipment meets all international standards and allows for holding sport competitions of any level: from municipal to international ones. The Olimpiyets is the first shooting ground of Saint-Petersburg to enter the All-Russia Register of RF Transport Ministry’s Facilities.
The Olimpiyets includes a Training Center for young sportsmen where children are offered free target shooting training. It has a department of the Olympic reserve junior sports school “Comprehensive school of higher sports skills” under the auspices of Saint-Petersburg Committee for Physical Culture and Sport. The Center is equipped with everything needed for classroom and practical training including a computer shooting simulator. Training is provided by experienced coaches.
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