On February 4 at a briefing at Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism Rafis Burganov reported that Tatarstan athletes will receive 4 million rubles for gold Olympic medals from Tatarstan Govrenment. A silver winner from Tatarstan will receive 2.5 million rubles, a bronze medalist – 1.7 million rubles.

“Coaches will receive 50% of the sum their trainees will get,” he reminded. To the point, Russian government will pay 4 million rubles for a gold medal, 2.5 million rubles for silver and 1.7 million rubles for bronze. Rafis Burganov also reminded that eight athletes from Tatarstan will take part in the Olympic Games. They are hockey players Ilya Nikulin, Aleksey Tereschenko, Evgeny Medvedev, Aleksander Svitov, biathlonists Niyaz Nabeev and Iban Panin, skiers Anastasia Dotsenko and Natalia Zhukova. Marat Zaynullin and Rushan Minnegulov will represent Tatarstan at Paralympic Games.

Director General of ANO “Executive Directorate of “Kazan 2013” Azat Kadyrov added that Tatarstan creative teams will take part in Olympic and Paralympic events in Sochi.