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Please note that there will also be autograph sessions with athletes ahead of the championship.

The tickets for the domestic championship go on sale tomorrow – November 8. The price ranges from 30 to 50 rubles.

40-strong team of Kazan 2013 volunteers will help stage the Russian Championship. All of them passed the selection procedure and received training.

The upcoming championships will be Kazan’s first test event in the lead-up to the FINA World Championships, which the sports capital of Russia will host on July 24-August 9, 2015.

Among the swimmers who arrived in Kazan for the championship are leaders of the national team: medal winners of the 2012 Olympic Games Evgeny Lagunov, Andrey Grechin and Sergey Fesikov, medal winners of the 2013 FINA World Championships Veronika Popova, Svetlana Chimrova, Daria Ustinova and Anna Belousova, two-time European champion Anastasia Chaun, medal winner of the 2012 FINA Short Course World Championships Vyacheslav Sinkevich and many other top swimmers of Russia.

As we reported earlier, 50 judges, 15 of them are from Tatarstan, will officiate the Russian Short Course Swimming Championship. This swimming event is a qualifier for the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Herning (Denmark) and Russia’s best swimmers will gather in Kazan.

During the last season, we participated in many competitions in Kazan.

The pool of the Aquatics Palace has established itself as Russia's major swimming venue, the flagship.

The Russian Short Course Swimming Championship started in the Aquatics Palace today. A press conference preceding the opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan Khalil Shaikhutdinov, President of the Russian Swimming Federation, FINA Bureau member and four-time Olympic champion Vladimir Salnikov, First Vice-President of the Russian Swimming Federation Viktor Avdienko, and head coach of the Russian national swimming team Anatoly Zhuravlyov.

Rustam Minnikhanov and Vagit Alekperov presented diplomas to the total winners of the contest in nomination “Native land”.