On 17 September Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin attended the final play of the Russia Rugby Cup at the VTB Arena of the Yashin Sentral Stadium Dinamo, where the Strela (Kazan) defeated the Krasnyy Yar from Krosnoyarsk with a 23:12 score.
It is for the first time in the history of the Strela club that is wins the Russia Cup while Krasnoyarsk team got the trophy ten years in the row before.
At the awarding ceremony Aleksey Pesoshin handed in the Cup to the Strela captain German Davydov.