The 59th sport competition called "Druzhba 2023" for the faculty of the Ural’s and Siberia’s universities took place in Tomsk Polytechnic University from January 31 till February 3, 2023.
250 lecturers, workers, and research fellows from 11 universities in the Urals and Siberia, such as Tomsk Polytechnic University, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Kurgan State University, Industrial University of Tyumen, Ural State Federal University, South Ural State University, Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, T.F. Gorbachev State Technical University, Kemerovo State University, Chelyabinsk State University, and Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI took part in the contest. For four days, the athletes had been competing in individual and team championships in seven kinds of sport: volleyball, table tennis, badminton, ski races, swimming, Ready for Labor and Defense multidisciplinary competition (GTO) and chess. Vladimir Mazur, the governor of Tomsk Oblast, gave his welcome speech at the opening ceremony.
NSTU NETI sports delegation, including 39 members, took an active part in the whole program of the "Druzhba 2023" sport contest.
Teachers and staff members of our university won prizes:
- First place in ski relays and second place in ski races. In team classification, the following results were taken into account: the 1st place: Valeriy Cheniy (manager of the ski depot), Michail Sherbanev, Evgeniy Danilchenko, Nadezhda Chumova (NSTU Sports Center), Yulia Filimonova (Design and Technology of Radio-electronic Devices); 2nd place: Sergey Elistratov (head of the Design and Technology of Radio-electronic Devices department), Sergey Alexeytsev (senior lecturer of the department of Information Systems and Technologies); 3rd place: Gleb Glazyrin (Associate Professor of the Power Plants department), Elena Kobeleva (senior lecturer of the departnment of Physical Education and Sport); Andrey Ivanov (the head of the department of Information Security); the winners of the men's 3x3 km relay are: Valeriy Cherniy, Engeniy Danilchenko, Michail Sherbenev; the runners-up in the women's 3x2 km relay are: Nadezhda Chumova, Oktyabrina Sokolova, Yulia Filimonova; the 3rd place in the men's relay won: Roman Rybchenko, Sergey Alexeythsev, Andrey Ivanov;
- First place in the GTO contest. Individual classification was added to the total result by: Michail Sherbanev (422 points), Valeriy Cherniy (417 points), Oktyabrina Sokolova (416 points), and Nadezhda Chumova (369 points), the final sum was 2030. The Ural Federal University was the runner-up with 1833 points;
- Second place in volleyball.The team included: Alexandr Parshukov (the Sports Center director), Ivan Reva (the dean of the Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering, the chairman of a trade union committee), Vladimir Klimov (the head of the departmnet of Physical Education and Sport), Leontiy Malinin (the deputy director of Sports Center), Anton Pridchin (a senior lecturer of Sports Center), Vladimir Korotkov (a leading engineer of the International Education Center), Konstantin Gerasimov, Alexey Kolmogorov, Alexey Egorov (all are the senior lecturers of the Department of Physical Education and Sport). Our team played a sequence of unbeaten matches, and only in the final did they lose to Magnitogorsk State University;
- Third place in badminton. Individual classification: Alexandr Egoshin (an engineer of the Department Operating Procedures and Production Automation); 3rd place among men aged 40-49: Sergey Bersenev (the Thermometry Center's leading engineer); 3rd place among women: Nadezhda Ryattel (an engineer of the Research Laboratory of Electric Drives Testing); 1st place in "women's pair": Nadezhda Ryattel and Nadezhda Mamz
- Third place in swimming. Individual performance (50 m freestyle and 50 m backstroke among women aged 50 and older): Natalia Rodionova (NSTU Sports Center); two first places (50 m freestyle and 50 m backstroke among women in their 40s and older): Marina Zueva (the senior coach of the Department of Physical Education and Sport); the second place (50 m backstroke among men aged 50 and older): Ruslan Voitovitch (the associate professor of Heat and Power Engineering); the fourth place (
The performance of our table tennis team was not entirely successful, and the athletes of NSTU NETI took only 7th place, though in individual classification Marina Afanasieva, the department assistant of the Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering, won second place.
Taking the best team results (five kinds of sports) into account, our team got the same number of points—58 for each—as the home team of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The final team placement was carried out in accordance with the "academic degree" criteria: the number of PhDs in a team. Here, Tomsk delegates left us behind.
The prize-winning places were ranked the following way
1st place: Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU);
2nd place: Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI);
3rd place: South Ural State University (UsU).
We congratulate the NSTU sports delegation on winning "the silver"!
The 60th "Druzhba" sports contest will be held in Tyumen in 2024. According to the lot drawing, the passing symbol of the competition, the steering wheel of "Druzhba", was given to Industrial University of Tyumen.