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Activity of the department of Sport and Youth Affairs in 2022
In the reported period the division coordinated the sport and educational activity of the sport schools in accordance with the RA legislation, established tight relations with schools and assisted in extracurricular activities and organized events aimed at healthy life style propaganda. The division organized Yerevan stages of different tournaments and sport events between schools and other municipal organizations. The division also maintained participation of Yerevan sport teams in the republican contests.
According to the decision of the Council of Elders N572-A made on 19.04.2022., the division of sport and youth affairs was reorganized into the same name department.
“Yerevan Sport Committee” SNCO provided participation of Yerevan teams in various competitions in other countries. Thus, Yerevan volleyball team participated in volleyball tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia and got the second prize.
The “Figure Skating on Roller Skates” event was held at the skate park in Circular park of Yerevan. Skaters from Europe and Russia took part in the event which was organized by Yerevan Municipality and the “RA Federation of Roller Skating and Skateboarding”. The goal of the event is to boost development of this sport in Armenia and to propagate healthy life style.
Several events were organized at “Yerevan Sport School of Figure Skating and Hockey”. One of such events was the “Summer Snowballs” entertaining event which involved a game of snowballs, a planetarium show, children’s interactive theatre, treatment to healthy food, ice-cream and soft drinks. The “Snow Queen” show was held at “Yerevan Sport School and Figure Skating and Hockey” and popular skaters from other countries took part in it. At “Yerevan Children’s and Youth’s School of Sport Games” a fencing tournament was held the honorary guest of which was the Olympic champion Yana Yegoryan.
By the initiative of “Dom Moskvi” centre in Yerevan and with the support of Yerevan Municipality a hockey tournament was held in September at Yerevan School of Figure Skating and Hockey.
The final stage of the republican military and sport games among the youth of pre-conscription and conscription age was held at Military University after Vazgen Sargsyan.
“Plogging” marathon was held in October. More than 80 participants from Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine were divided into 3 teams – cyclers, runners and walkers. Games and information class were held during the event to make participants aware of plogging and waste sorting. During the run the ploggers collected 25 bags of plastic, 10 bags of paper and 8 bags of common garbage.
Yerevan stages of the republican tournaments for basis and high school pupils were held in basketball and volleyball.
Footsal tournament was organized between the staff of administrative districts and members of Council of Elders. The department organized numerous other sport events.
In 2022 Armenian athletes achieved more than 300 medals 104 of which are gold. The World and Europe champions were hosted in the City Hall where vice-mayors Gevorg Simonyan and Tigran Avinyan, deputy minister of ESCS Karen Giloyan and the head of sport and youth affairs department of Yerevan Municipality Arsen Makvetsyan awarded them monetary prizes and souvenirs.
Youth
In cooperation local and international public organizations and jointly with the Armenian Red Cross in November-December of 2022 the First Psychological Aid courses were held for the coaches of 9 municipal sport organizations.
Such activities as supervision, support, data and reports collection were carried out within the frames of “Financing of Innovative Programs of Youth Organizations aimed at Solution of the Problems of Yerevan” program confirmed by the decision of Yerevan Mayor in 2021.