On August 19-20, the capital’s SPORT LIFE fitness center became the main competition arena for squash fans from all over Ukraine and the world. The Zenit Ukraine Open 2023 charity tournament brought together more than 100 players who came from Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Kherson and Odesa, as well as from France, the USA, Turkey and Moldova.
The participants competed in various categories ranging from Lady B to Men A. The winners in their categories were:
Lady B category:
Anetta Siganevich
Veronika Levkivska
Yulia Yakimova
Lady A category:
Daria Vlasenko
Tatiana Stanko
Veronika Usenko
Category Men D:
Roman Popov
Anton Babushko
Stepan Kobzev
Category Men C:
Anton Skaballanovich
Kirill Leonov
Araik Sargsyan
Category Men B:
Maxim Shumelda
Rostyslav Zavinskyi
Dmytro Baluta
Category Men A:
Nikita Panov
Ruslan Petrovych
Maxim Tokar
After the sports part, the winners were awarded at the Brugge restaurant, where a charity auction and a patriotic buffet were also held. The joint efforts of the participants and the host Andriy Dzhedzhula raised over UAH 100,000. These funds will be used to support squash players and the army.
The event could not have become so bright and successful without the support of partners and sponsors:
The main fitness partner “SPORT LIFE“;
The event was organized by the Ukrainian Squash Federation;
Information partner – Interfax Ukraine news agency, Open4Business;
Official sponsor – Experts Club;
Medical partner – Adonis chain of clinics;
Partner of the award ceremony – “VILLA TINTA”;
Prizes and gifts were presented by Sport Life, Reima and Tecnifibre;
The official water of the tournament is KRAINA;
Beer for participants and guests was provided by TERMO-PAB;
All tournament guests were accommodated at FAVOR HOTEL;
The award ceremony and party were held in partnership with the BRUGGE restaurant.
The tournament confirmed that charity and sport can go hand in hand, bringing joy and helping people.
Source https://interfax.com.ua/news/press-release/930405.html
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The festival was held at the Forest Club Sherwood hotel and restaurant complex. The event was attended by well-known Ukrainian wineries: TM My Wine, SHABO, BOLGRAD, Cotnar, Villa Tinta, and Vladyslav Zakrevsky’s winery. Also represented were Honey Badger liqueurs and tinctures, White Church Distillery, Osnova cheese factory, Zinka TM, Kozatski Kozyrni Syry, producers of meat chips and snacks Snacks by Bandera, and others.
Interesting lectures for visitors were held at the festivals. Visitors were introduced to the world of winemaking: Liudmyla Boiko, chief technologist of the Honey Badger family enterprise; Stepan and Olha Kutsipak, owners of the Snacks by Bandera brand; Natalia Blahopoluchna, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Winemakers and Sommeliers, head of the first Ukrainian sommelier school “Master Class”; Bogdan Panchuk, brand ambassador of Leleka Wines; Eduard Gorodetsky, founder of Tiras Winery; Natalia Burlachenko, sommelier and brand ambassador of Vinos de la Luz; Vita Oliynyk, representative of Zinka TM. The event was also attended by Ricardo Fernandez Nunez, the owner of Vinos de la Luz group of companies.
In addition to wine lectures, visitors were able to attend a master class “How to open champagne with a glass or modern sabrage” by Mykola Blagopoluchny, head of the Master Class sommelier school and director of the All-Ukrainian Association of Winemakers and Sommeliers.
The highlight of the first day of the festival was a soulful concert by Ukrainian singer PIANOBOY.
On July 30, the festival hosted a roundtable discussion on the development of winemaking and viticulture in Ukraine during the war. The participants were Ihor Vishtak, Director of the Crop Production Department of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine; Volodymyr Pechko, Head of the UKRSADVINPROM NGO; Iryna Kovaleva, Director of the V.E. Tairov Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Maksym Urakin, founder of the Experts Club. Maxim Urakin, founder of the analytical center “Club of Experts”, publisher, marketing director of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency; Yegor Belov, chef-sommelier of the InterContinental Kyiv hotel, winner of the All-Ukrainian Sommelier Competition 2018; Dmytro Saprykin, brand ambassador of Alcoline and Oleg Antipin, brand ambassador of SHABO; Konstantin Tintulov, commercial director and co-owner of Vinhol Oksamytne LLC.
The roundtable was also attended by Dmytro Natalukha, a Ukrainian politician and public figure, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the IX convocation, lawyer, human rights activist, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the IX convocation. Member of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People political party. Deputy Member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Co-chair of the group on interparliamentary relations with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The roundtable ended with a pre-premiere screening of the movie Wounded Land. This is a documentary about the stories of Ukrainian winemakers who have suffered from Russian aggression. The film was directed and co-produced by Roman Zayats, the founder of the Heartland project.
The festival has a charitable component. Charity auctions and fundraisers were held for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The event raised UAH 142,050! The main lot of the festival – a unique wine from Vinos de La Luz with a label of Ivan Marchuk’s painting – was sold for UAH 120 thousand. The funds raised were distributed as follows:
UAH 120,000 was donated for the treatment of cancer to Serhiy Kovalenko, a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a well-known winemaker.
UAH 22050 was donated to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Consumer tasting was held during the two days of the event. Visitors of the event chose the best wine. Wines from TM My Wine won the Consumer Choice competition.
The event was organized by Focus event.
The issue of the need to support the processing industry, in particular biogas producers, was raised by Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solskiy at a meeting with Deputy Director of the USAID mission in Ukraine Theodora Dell, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.
“The parties discussed the implementation of joint projects in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. The Minister thanked for the support of land reclamation reform, as a result of which farmers are actively creating new OICs, receive assistance in the restoration of irrigation systems. They also talked about the need for additional projects to support the processing industry, in particular biogas producers,” the report says.
According to Solsky, this promising industry should receive an additional impetus to more active development.
Dell, for her part, noted that the USAID mission has been supporting Ukraine since the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion and will definitely continue to do so.
On the night of Monday, August 21, there will be no precipitation in Ukraine, during the day in the northern, most central and Kharkiv regions there will be short-term rains, thunderstorms, in the rest of the territory no precipitation, the Ukrainian Weather Center reports.
The wind on Monday is northwest, 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 16-21°, during the day 27-32°; in the southern part at night 20-25°, during the day 33-37°.
In Kyiv, on August 21, no precipitation at night, in some places short-term rain and thunderstorms during the day. Northwest wind, 5-10 m / s. Temperature at night 18-20°, during the day 28-30°.
According to the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory, in Kyiv, for the entire period of meteorological observations on August 21, the highest daytime temperature was +36.2° in 1946, the lowest nighttime temperature was +7.3° in 1908.
On Tuesday, August 22, it will be mostly without precipitation in Ukraine, with short-term rains and thunderstorms in the northeastern regions. Northwest wind, 5-10 m / s. Temperature at night 14-19°; during the day 24-29°, in Transcarpathia, in the central and eastern regions 27-32°; in the southern part of the country at night 18-23°, during the day 30-35°.
No precipitation in Kyiv on August 22. Northwest wind, 5-10 m / s. Temperature at night 17-19°, during the day 26-28°.
Ukraine’s reconstruction should follow SMART principles and be man-centered, believes Alexander Nasikovsky, co-founder and managing partner of DIM Group.
“SMART principles (the goal should be Specific – specific, Measurable – measurable, Achievable – achievable, Relevant – meaningful, Time bound – timely) imply an integrated approach to the restoration of territories, focusing on engineering communications, infrastructure, social facilities and, of course, housing. Energy independence becomes a fundamental component of this approach,” Nasikovsky emphasized in his comments to Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, DIM specialists have studied the experience of many countries, in particular Sweden, and developed geothermal pump systems for apartment buildings.
“This allows to save up to 40% on heating and reduce energy consumption by 35 kWh per square meter,” Nasikovsky explained, adding that elements of sustainable energy independence of DIM projects were also solar panels on places of common use and street lighting.
The key role in the rehabilitation projects, according to Nasikovskiy, will be played by infrastructure created in accordance with the real needs and desires of residents.
“The life of restored communities should be rich, so we developed the concept of community centers, educational hubs, and places for commercial initiatives that meet the real demands and needs of people,” added the DIM co-founder.
Implementing these ideas, he believes, requires collaboration between the public and private sector, analysis and consideration of behavioral trends and a shared understanding of the needs of today’s community.
“Recovery is a challenge, but we are ready to change lives for the better, taking into account the SMART principles and the efforts of all spheres of public life,” Nasikowski emphasized.
As reported, according to the research of the project “Russia will pay” at the end of June, the amount of damage to housing during the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation is $56 billion.
Founded in 2014, DIM GC consists of six companies covering all stages of construction.
To date, the GC has commissioned 12 houses in six residential complexes. Seven residential complexes of “comfort+” and “business class” category are under construction: Novy Avtograf, Metropolis, Park Lake City, Lucky Land and others.
The Ukrainian squash community is preparing for the biggest event of the year. On August 19-20, 2023, the charity squash tournament Zenit Ukraine Open 2023 will take place at the SPORT LIFE fitness center in Kyiv, 8 Samaila Kishky Street. The competition will last two days and will start at 09.00 on August 19.
This tournament is the most famous and largest international squash competition in the history of independent Ukraine. Its scale is evidenced not only by the number of participants and countries represented, but also by the large number of organizations that have joined the preparation and holding of the tournament.
The competition will be held in six categories: for men, these are categories A, B, C, D, and for women, A and B. Among the tournament participants are players from France, the United States, Moldova, Turkey and many Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Lviv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, and Odesa.
The events will culminate in an award ceremony to be held on August 20 at 17.00 at the BRUGGE restaurant.
“Squash is actively gaining popularity in Ukraine even in this difficult time. And this is primarily the merit of our youth. Last year, 6 of our juniors entered the top 10 world squash rankings. This is an indicator that we are moving in the right direction. Such tournaments as the Zenit Ukraine Open only contribute to the popularization and development of this sport in Ukraine,” said Maxim Urakin, co-organizer of the tournament.
This approach is also supported by the President of the Ukrainian Squash Federation Dmytro Shcherbakov.
“The development of youth and junior squash is our future. But besides this, we have to take care of our present. The organization of such events demonstrates that despite all the hardships, Ukrainian sport, and squash in particular, continues to develop,” said Dmytro Shcherbakov.
Organizational support for the tournament is provided by:
The main fitness partner is the national network of fitness clubs “Sport Life”;
The main organizer is the NGO Squash Federation of Ukraine;
The main media partner is Interfax Ukraine;
The official sponsor of the tournament is Experts Club.
Participants and winners will receive a number of gifts from Sport Life, REIMA, and special partners: ADONIS, UKRSADVINPROM, KRAINA, VILLA TINTA, TERMOPUB, FAVOR Hotel, Tecnifibre and BRUGGE Restaurant.
The tournament will be held with a charitable mission to help the Armed Forces.
All supporters and fans of squash are invited to this great sporting event. We hope to see you at the championship and support our athletes together!
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