On 25 May, the first WorldSkills Flag Relay in the Republic of Tatarstan took place at the Ice Palace, Nizhnekamsk.
On the eve of the closing ceremony of the 7th National Competition “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia), the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation (Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee) Olga Vasilyeva and President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov announced the start of the final leg of the WorldSkills Flag Relay in Tatarstan.
The WorldSkills Flag Relay was held as part of the Day of Chemist in Nizhnekamsk. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnilhanov and Mayor of Nizhnekamsk Aydar Metshin became the honorable guests of the event.
The Russian leg of the WorldSkills Flag Relay started in August 2018 at the Final of the 6th National Competition “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It will travel across 24 regions of the Russian Federation. The Russian leg of the WorldSkills Flag Relay will take place during the corporate and industrial competitions involving all centers of federal districts. The Flag will visit all leading industrial regions and large-scale enterprises of the Russian Federation, and then the Republic of Tatarstan will host it. The Relay is expected to culminate in Kazan on the day of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Opening Ceremony.
The Flag Relay started in 2017 when the WorldSkills Flag was handed to Kazan, the next WorldSkills host city, during the Closing Ceremony of the WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. The flag arrived in Sochi, Russia the next day. In December 2017, it was launched into space and kept on board of the International Space Station for more than two months, before returning at the end of February 2018. After the start of the international leg of the Relay in Madrid, the flag took a journey across 20 countries that previously hosted the WorldSkills Competition.
The Flag visited Germany, Netherlands, USA, Republic of Korea, United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Finland, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain, Austria, Brazil, and Japan. The flag arrived in Russia from Chinese Taipei, where it was honored at the 48th WorldSkills Competition. In each country, the logos of the competitions that took place there were put on the flag.
Press Office of WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Competition Organizer
