The Volga Region University of Sports took the 1st place in the All-Russian Student Sports History contest in the Best Operating Museum of Student Sports (Museum Exposition) category.
The university submitted the Kazan 2013 Museum project to the competition.
Students and staff of the university took part in the preparation of the competition documentation.
The university was awarded a cup with the competition logo and a diploma for winning the competition.
The Universiade Museum was opened on 29 June 2013 immediately after the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan.
Its concept was approved by the members of the FISU Historical Committee chaired by the FISU President in February 2013.
The exposition of the first exhibition told about how Russia was preparing to host the Universiade - the first such large-scale sports forum in the modern history of the country.
As time went on, the exposition changed, new exhibits and new equipment appeared, and the museum became more than just a place where history is preserved - it became a real educational platform where meetings with athletes, master classes by Universiade participants, excursions, quizzes and other events dedicated to university sport were organised.
The museum's collection of exhibits continues to be actively replenished to the present day. They can be divided into three large groups: athletes' equipment, gifts from organisations, public figures, heads of state, and handouts and souvenirs.
The museum, for example, keeps a working torch of the 2011 Summer Universiade from Shenzhen. This valuable gift was made by Claude-Louis Galien, President of the International University Sports Federation.
Other interesting gifts include T-shirts and balls of the Russian men's national table tennis team, a T-shirt of the head of the Estonian delegation, a T-shirt of the Russian men's national rugby team with personal signatures.
Not quite typical exhibits of the museum include a bicycle, equipment and personal belongings of cyclists Pavel Grachev and Alen Khairullin, who travelled around the world to talk about the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan.
The Universiade Museum today, just like 10 years ago, does not lose its importance for the city and the republic - tours are organised on a regular basis for residents of Kazan and guests of the capital of Tatarstan.
The total number of visitors has been growing year by year and is consistently at least 2,000 people.
Speaking of excursions, I would like to mention that the museum has two excursion routes: the first one - on the history of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan and the second one - on the history of university sports in general.
