Sport has special importance in social policy of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company and it is the part of corporate culture. Sport infrastructure of UMMC is 10 stadiums, 9 sport centers, 7 swimming pools and also club of unarmed self-defense and judo, yacht club and motosports base. The company practically finishes the construction of UMMC Sport Center in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. It will be great sport and entertainment center with basketball facility for 2 thousand spectaculars and additional basketball ground for training of “UMMC” team basketball players, Euroleague champions, and girls of junior farm-club as well. In addition the center will include restaurant, café, bowling center and billiard room. It means that citizens could come to this place for pleasant and healthy time spending. Sport clubs and physical training groups work at each enterprise of UMMC. Brilliant sport infrastructure allows not only holding of sport actions but also training of high grade sportsmen. Sport action of the club mainly means summer and winter sports days in labor groups of each company and each plant. And the best sportsmen and sport groups of the companies are invited for participation in annual sport meetings of UMMC, i.e. summer and winter sport competitions.
It is estimated that about 20% of the company workers take the part in UMMC sport competitions. 16 teams participated together in the last sport competition. Metallurgists and miners, engineers and technicians, top managers of the company go to the stadiums, running-tracks and playing grounds including Andrey Kozitsyn, General Director of UMMC, who participates in volleyball tournament.
Along with such conventional sports as skis, winter polyathlon, hockey, athletics, volleyball, basketball, football, unarmed self-defense, judo, gunshots, summer polyathlon, ping-pong, swimming and power lifting UMMC also actively cultivates sport ballroom dances, gorodki, motosports, sailing sport, aqua aerobics, martial arts, bodybuilding and fitness, equestrian sport. In the most of these sports the sportsmen of UMMC take leading positions within Russia and often at international level.
Sports grounds are often used for great competitions of all-Russian and even international levels: national swimming championship, athletics marathon, all-Russian open unarmed self-defence tournament, International gorodki tournament, junior regatta, Russian Cup on speedway. Traditionally UMMC supports the holding of Open Russian Cup on karate-kiokusinkai. The company finances three professional teams at once which are successful in high leagues of Russia championship: “UMMC” women basketball team, “Temp-SUMZ” men basketball team, “UPI-SUMZ” mini-football team.
“UMMC” basketball club
It is Europe champion of 2003, one of the most successful Europe team and main sport proud of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company without any doubt.
Since 2000 when UMMC have taken Ural leading women basketball team under its patronage this club made almost impossible. “UMMC” won national championship in 2002 and 2003, in 2003 for the first time in history of Russian women basketball became the strongest team of the continent due to phenomenal winning over French “Olympic” in final of its first participation in Euroleague. Good few of “UMMC” players won status of world vice-champions participating in national team in 2002. In 2003 four “UMMC” basketball players have become champions of Europe for the first time in history of Russian basketball. Extra five bronze medals were got by “UMMC” at Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens.
Support of “UMMC” is point of honor for the company’s workers. Favorite team is supported by everyone without exceptions: from Andrey Kozitsyn, General Director, to the worker.
It is not surprising that UMMC's employees together with Andrey Kozitsyn forms the most active supporters group at local games of this club. Visits of special support groups which include the workers of its enterprises are usual for important gests games with UMMC.
BC “UMMC” improves the skills of junior basketball players and trains them for reserve teams of Russian and Super League. “UMMC” junior team, future reserve for current main team, is successful in High League of Russian Championship. Team symbol is the fox which appeared in the middle of 1990s. Its prototype is legendary player of the club, current coacher of this team, Olga Korosteleva, who was considered as the most skilful basketball player of the Soviet Union.
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UMMC club of unarmed self-defense and judo
Currently single fight of former USSR is considered as one more UMMC’s corporate sport. Alexander Kozitsyn, Director of “Uralelectromed”, is a vice-president of all-Russian unarmed self-defense federation and head of unarmed self-defense Federation of Sverdlovsk region.
There are club branches in Ekaterinburg, Shadrinsk, Revda and Krasnouralsk in addition to the school of Verkhnyaya Pyshma where 350 fighters of different age are trained by two honored coachers of Russia, Valeriy Stennikov and Alexander Melnikov, and five coaches with high category as well. During four years of unarmed self-defense sport active development by UMMC the school of Verkhnyaya Pyshma has become one of the best school within this sport replacing leaders from Moscow, Perm, Nijniy Novgorod and Kstovo. Availability of own section in Verkhnyaya Pyshma children's home-school and judo section operated from 1999 for blind and poor vision children who are the winners of World and Europe championships for sportsmen with different vision restrictions and also winners of International games for disabled persons and Paralympics Games provides the enhancement of current successful reputation of the club.
Today UMMC club of unarmed self-defense and judo is represented by repeated winners of world and national championships, owners of world cups, winners of championships of Russia, Europe, Asia, winners of the largest international tournaments. In 2002 club legend, honored master of sports, two-times world vice-champion, champion of Europe and three-time champion of Russia, Sergey Kolesnikov was awarded by gold medal of national championship which is the first one for six years. The club is also supported by two-times winner of junior world championship, Alsim Chernoskoulov, who is the most prospective young unarmed self-defense fighter of the country.
Judo fighters, Oleg Shabashov, Anatoliy Vlasov, Ekaterina Bouzmakova, Alexandra Vlasova, Oxana Novokshonova are the winners of Russian championship of sportsmen with poor vision and were included in national team for participation in championship in Canada. There Vlasov and Shabashov won gold medals of team championship and Bouzmakova, Vlasova and Novokshonova won bronze medals of team championship and had the right for participation in Paralympic Games of 2004 in Athens.
The club contacts: 12, Lenin str., Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk region, 624091, Russia; tel.: (34368) 47877, e-mail: fsambo@elem.ru
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