 Sport plays a special role in social policy of UMMC, and it is considered to be a part of corporate culture. Entertaining competitions “UMMC family”, which are organized among employees and members of their families within the companies of the Group, have become regular and favorite.
Today the Group’s sport infrastructure embraces stadiums, sport centers, swimming pools, tennis-courts, hockey-courts, motosports base, etc.. International competitions, world championships for different sports are held in the UMMC’s sport center, which opened in the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in 2005. In addition to a basketball in-door ground for 2 thousand seats, the building of sport center accommodates training playgrounds equipped with special training apparatuses, rooms for aerobics, spa-salon, solarium, swimming pool.
Not only such national conventional sports as basketball, volleyball, skiing, hockey, athletics, football, swimming and tennis, but also rather new kinds of sports, such as fitness and bodybuilding, martial arts, sailing are actively being developed and encouraged at Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company nowadays. For the most of these sports UMMC athletes win prize places in Russian and international competitions.
Every year sport competitions are organized among employees of UMMC plants. Traditionally, about 20% of the Group employees – from workers to the management team take part in these very sport contests.
“UMMC” basketball club
It is Europe champion of 2003, ranked as one of the most successful Europe team and certainly a key sport proud of the Group.
Since 2000, when UMMC took over the Ural leading women basketball team under its patronage, this club has made almost impossible. “UMMC” won twice National Championship in 2002 and 2003. In 2003 due to phenomenal winning over French team “Olympic” in the finals of the Euroleague, “UMMC” became the strongest team of the continent for the first time in history of Russian women basketball. Good few of the first players of the “UMMC” team shared the status of world vice-champions playing for the national team in 2002. In 2003 four “UMMC” basketball players became Europe champions for the first time of Russian basketball. Reference list of the Club demonstrates winning in Russian Cup in 2005, silver (2004, 2006) and bronze (2005, 2007, 2008) awards in national competitions.
Favorite team is supported by everybody in the Group without exceptions: from General Director to the worker.
It is not surprising that UMMC's employees led by Andrey Kozitsyn form the most active supporting group at local games of the Club. The special supporting groups, which include the workers from the Group’s companies, are usual for the important games.
“UMMC” Basketball Club raises a new generation of junior basketball players and trains them for reserve of Russia and Super League. “UMMC” junior team, future reserve for the current first players, shows successful results in the High League of Russian Championship. The team’s symbol is a fox which turned up in the middle of 1990s. Its prototype is a legendary player of the Club, current coacher of the team, Olga Korosteleva, who was recognized as the most skilful basketball player of the Soviet Union.
See more information at website of “UMMC” Basketball Club: www.basket.ugmk.com
“UMMC” Club of Sambo and Judo
Sambo (Russian acronym from Unarmed Self-Defense) is a contemporary martial art having its roots from Soviet times. Today this martial art of former USSR acquired recognition of another corporate sport of UMMC. There are club branches in Ekaterinburg, Shadrinsk, Revda, Krasnouralsk and in other cities in addition to the martial art school in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, where 350 fighters of various age are trained by two honored coachers of Russia, Valery Stennikov and Alexander Melnikov, and by other five coaches of high category. In a short span of developing Sambo, the martial art school in Verkhnyaya Pyshma has become one of the best schools leaving behind Moscow, Perm, and Nijniy Novgorod. Fighters from our Sambo and Judo Club won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals in Championship of Russia, 2008 and led the team of Sverdlovsk oblast to the utter first prize in team classification.
Worthy reputation of the club is acknowledged by its own sport school for children and juniors with special sport center, a martial art section in Verkhnyaya Pyshma children's home-school created in 1999 for blind and poor vision children, who are the repeated winners of World and Europe championships for athletes with vision disturbance, and winners of International games for disabled people and Paralympics Games.
At the present UMMC Club of Sambo and Judo is represented by repeated winners of World and National Championships, owners of World Cups, winners of Championships of Russia, Europe, Asia and winners of the largest international tournaments. Club fighter, Timur Gallyamov, is a double winner of World Championship, and another fighter, Alsim Chernoskulov, won two silver medals. As for still others Dmitry Lebedev (two medals), Ilya Khlybov, Eugeny Aksamentov and Alsim Chernoskulov became winners of European Championships.
The club contacts: 12, Lenin str., Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk region, 624091, Russia; tel.: (34368) 47877, e-mail: sfsambo@mail.ru
“UMMC” Table Tennis Club
 “UMMC” table tennis club was recognized in September of 2007 after being announced in the international tournament held in Sochi. Tennis-players from the Middle Ural took all four prize places. Vladimir Beloglazov, Director on General Matters of UMMC is the President of the Club is.
At the same time Executive Committee of Russian Table Tennis Federation took decision to include a new tennis club into a list of 14 teams participating in Russian championship in Super League among men. Today “UMMC” club is a bronze prize-winner of Russian championship 2007-2008 and National Cup of 2008.
The best tennis players of the world and Russia play for the “UMMC” table tennis club: Zoran Primorats (Croatia) and Kim Jun Khun (Korea), participants of the Olympic games of 2008, Eugenie Schetinin (Belorussia), silver medalist of the European championship of 2008, and Grigory Vlasov, silver medalist of the Russian championship of 2007, repeated winner of European championships, a player of Russian team. Sergey Vlasov, Head coach of Russian table tennis team, and Tatiana Kutergina (Ferdman), World Champion of 1975 in double and single/double, are the technique-masters of the team.
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