The bronze medals of the Russian Sitting Volleyball Championship, held in Ramenskoye near Moscow, were won by the Tatarstan national team. As part of our team, the winners of the tournament were the quartet of "academicians".
in 2020, the project " sitting volleyball. inclusive and exclusive" became the winner of the competition of the presidential grants fund. as part of the grant, uniforms, special equipment, and sports equipment were purchased. The women's volleyball team for people with musculoskeletal disorders was organized at the university in 2018 under the leadership of the now graduate of the Academy Yulia Safikanova. At all stages of implementation, the project was actively supported by the head of the Department of Adaptive Physical Culture and Life Safety Larisa Parfenova, an active participant was a specialist of the Department of Social and educational work, a master's student of the department Chulpan Galieva.
During its implementation, the project received support at the republican level - in the Ministry of Sports of Tatarstan and the Republican Physical culture and Sports Society of the Disabled. The Zenit Volleyball Club helped organize a fundraiser on the crowdfunding platform. Girls train in the gym of the educational building of the Volga Academy. In the training process and competitions, the most active part is also taken by students of the academy who do not have health restrictions: Alexandra Kryukova and Yulia Fokina, and in the new season, a first-year student with a disability Yulia Smirnova joined the team.
For three years, the team from Tatarstan took part in several major tournaments. And finally, the efforts brought a sporting result – the "bronze" of the Russian Championship. It is noteworthy that our team won two significant victories in Ramenskoye. First, we defeated our long-standing and principled rivals-a team from the Sakha Republic, and in the match for the third place we defeated a strong team from St. Petersburg.