🇷🇺 Today, Vladimir Putin visited the fencing center in Ufa.

⭕️ The sports complex was commissioned on October 1, 2024. Its total area is over 6,200 square meters, with a capacity of 250 people at a time.

✔️ The center includes several halls: a universal hall, a specialized hall, and a training hall, totaling 28 fencing strips. The building also features a gym, a lounge, a swimming pool, a cafeteria, a workshop for equipment and weapon repairs, and a conference room.

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✨ A few interesting facts about the International Trade Center in Moscow, where the BRICS Business Summit is currently taking place.

🚩 The ITC was built in 1980 against the backdrop of the growing foreign economic activity of the USSR. It was planned to house representations of foreign companies, with the initiative for the project coming from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the USSR and American businessman Armand Hammer.

⛲️ A fountain was constructed at the entrance to the business center for its opening, and symbolically, a two-meter bronze statue of the ancient god Mercury, the patron of trade, profit, and good fortune in business, was placed on top.

🦅 The monumental decorations of the business complex do not end there. At the entrance to the Plaza Garden Moscow WTC hotel, visitors are greeted by the unique clock "Russian Souvenir." The composition consists of three dials, sculptures from folklore, and the upper part of the clock is adorned with a rooster that crows and flaps its wings, covered in gold leaf, exactly on the hour.

🛗🏧 Interestingly, many things that are now commonplace for modern residents of the capital first appeared at the ITC. In the 1980s, the first panoramic elevators in the USSR, which operated for 40 years, were installed, and in 1991, the first ATMs were introduced.

⚽️And a final fact for football fans. In 2008, during the UEFA Champions League final held at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, the famous team Manchester United stayed at the Plaza Garden Moscow WTC hotel, where Cristiano Ronaldo was playing at that time. For the convenience of the players, the Grand Hall of the ITC Congress Center was converted into a full-fledged football field, where the team trained before the final of the main European cup, which Manchester United, by the way, won.

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