Ilsur Metshin: “Our task is to organize the Games of the Future as flawlessly as a rocket launch”

During a visit to Baikonur, where the trophy of the Games of the Future was launched to the ISS orbital complex, Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin invited Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut Sergey Krikalyov to international phygital competitions. The Games will start in February in Kazan. “The trophy of the competition will return to the beginning of the Games. Our task, we are working towards this goal, is to organize the Games of the Future as flawlessly as the launch of the rocket,”- the Mayor said at a staff meeting and shared his impressions of visiting Baikonur.

He told how last week, as part of a delegation headed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the organizing committee of the Games of the Future Dmitry Chernyshenko, visited the Baikonur cosmodrome when the competition trophy was launched into space. “We felt the scale of the event, which will be hosted by Kazan, Tatarstan, and Russia for the first time,”- Ilsur Metshin said.

The Mayor noted that the launch of the rocket is an indescribable event, and everything at Baikonur is saturated with history. “The 300-ton vehicle took off at exactly 14:21.11. As part of the commission, we had a chance to visit the launch site, close up, feel the power and well–coordinated work of thousands of people, the top of engineering thought,”- the head of the city shared.

Kazan was entrusted with the organization of the Games of the Future not only as a sports capital, but also as a city actively developing the digital economy: “This is not only about Innopolis, an IT park, but also about our advanced developments in the state and municipal services, which increases the convenience of services for citizens, and together with landscaping and development public spaces, security, strengthens Kazan as one of the most comfortable cities.”