The Russian youth rowing team and the national youth rowing team completed their first training camps after a period of self – isolation at one of the facilities of the Volga Academy-the rowing sports Center.
The juniors were preparing for the Russian championship with a team of 30 people. This was told by the senior coach of the national team Konstantin Vishnyakov: "I would like to prepare for international starts, but the situation is unclear because of the coronavirus in the world, so we are preparing for the Russian championship, which will be held in Voronezh on August 2. The conditions here are excellent: food, accommodation-everything meets the standards of an adult national team."
The rowing team was represented by 48 athletes and members of the coaching staff. At the Kazan facility, rowers were preparing for the European under-23 championship, which is to be held in Duisburg, Germany. The team to participate in this tournament, according to the senior coach of the Tatarstan national team aislu Mingazova, will be formed following the results of the first official start of the season - the Moscow regatta, which will be held in early August.
Ilya Monakhov, a pupil of the Kazan rowing school, is preparing to take part in the upcoming regatta as part of the Russian national team. He spoke about training during self-isolation:
– I spent the self-isolation regime in a private house, where I had the opportunity to run through the woods and exercise on simulators. Of course, it is difficult without a coach, there is no one to adjust. I was engaged in General physical training, there were no options to do it on the water. When you go out on the water after a break – it's like getting behind the wheel of a car after a long pause. Now we are all charged, we are actively engaged as part of a four - piece and a pair. In fact, the training process did not stop all this time. People from home worked, and we also did our work remotely.
Director of the center for rowing sports albert Karimov, spoke about the state of Affairs after coming out of the coronavirus pause: 
– Of course, we are in a difficult situation. Expenses were cut as much as possible, only the employees ' salaries were paid in full during the entire period of self-isolation. In income, of course, lost. The object and the hotel were standing, paid groups were not engaged. Training camps, including financial support for the maintenance of the facility.rowing