Similar event was held in Buryatiya, Russia. Photo courtesy of egov-buryatia.ru
An unusual sport relay was held in Taldykorgan on May 9. Vladimir Ugay, local 8-grade schoolboy, was the author of the idea, Express K reports. “There have been 24838 days of peace since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Participants of the event were supposed to make this number of push-ups,” the author of the idea said. There were no restrictions on age or social status for the participants and everyone was welcome to take part. 2000 people took part in the event, including officials of Taldykorgan’s Akimat (municipal authorities). Every person, who participated in the relay, had to do at least 10 push-ups, the newspaper reports. For post soviet countries, with Kazakhstan being one of them, the Great Patriotic War is the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 when the countries fought on many fronts of the eastern campaign of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with its allies.
An unusual sport relay was held in Taldykorgan on May 9. Vladimir Ugay, local 8-grade schoolboy, was the author of the idea, Express K reports.
“There have been 24838 days of peace since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Participants of the event were supposed to make this number of push-ups,” the author of the idea said. There were no restrictions on age or social status for the participants and everyone was welcome to take part.
2000 people took part in the event, including officials of Taldykorgan’s Akimat (municipal authorities). Every person, who participated in the relay, had to do at least 10 push-ups, the newspaper reports.
For post soviet countries, with Kazakhstan being one of them, the Great Patriotic War is the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 when the countries fought on many fronts of the eastern campaign of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with its allies.