The 13th Open sports contest for the space industry companies, held under the auspices of the State space agency of Ukraine and the branch Council of young specialists, started on May 14.

More than one hundred athletes, including 38 competitors from Yuzhnoye SDO, arrived in Orlivshchyna village, where Lesnoy vacation hotel is situated (it is there the contest takes place). The youth teams represent eight companies, namely Yuzhnoye SDO, SE “Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant”, Dnipro Design Institute (Dnipro), National Center for Control and Test of Space Facilities (Kyiv), HARTRON-UCOM (Zaporizhzhya), Kommunar Corporation  and HARTRON-ARKOS (Kharkiv), and Interpipe company, the competition debutant.

The representatives of SSAU, Yuzhnoye management and the labor union committee, as well as the chairman of Cosmomash labor union central committee, Valery Vasylyev, took part in the grand opening of the sports contest.

Young employees of the space industry will compete in indoor soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, and chess.

The sport festivity will last till the end of the week. The competition summing-up and award ceremony will take place on Saturday, the 19th May, at 10.00.

The   sports contest is held annually. Its aim is to popularize the healthy life style, strengthen the team spirit and connections among the young employees of the Ukrainian space industry companies.