To mark the 77th anniversary of victory at Great Patriotic War in 1945 (2nd world war), Engineering Division of Rosatom State Corporation of Russia (General Contractor of Rooppur NPP) is hosting a month-long sports competition titled-Project Manager’s Cup” at the Rooppur NPP construction site at Ishwardi.
Over 400 sportsmen representing different local and foreign companies working for the country’s nuclear power project are contesting in 13 sport categories including basketball, athletics, badminton, volleyball, chess, darts, table tennis, football, tennis, billiards, bench press, tug-of-war and arm wrestling.
The best teams and individuals will be awarded on the closing day of the event on May 7.
Alexei Deriy, Vice President, ASE and Director of the Rooppur NPP construction project, said “Rooppur NPP stands first among the construction sites under the Engineering Division of Rosatom State Corporation, to host such sports contest in 2022. I hope the spirit of the competition will be taken forward to the construction works of our project.” Rooppur NPP will be equipped with two Russian VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of l 2400 MWe. This is an evolutionary generation III+ design which fully complies with all the international safety requirements
