The bicycle racing on the route “Volgodonsk – Caucasian Waters”, devoted to the 66th anniversary of the Great Victory and the 10th anniversary of the start-up of Rostov NPP first power unit was started on May 23, 2011. 22 bicyclists from five Russian nuclear plants were included into the team.

Sportsmen atomists of Rostov, Beloyarsk, Leningrad, Novovoronezh and Balakovo NPPs will spend 7 days in the tour, coming through the towns of Rostov region and Stavropol Territory. The distance is 600 km long, and the bicyclists will overcome about hundred km a day.

Rostov NPP Deputy HR Director, USSR Master of Sports Gennady Fomenko heads the atomists’ team. He has been going into professional sports cycling since 1963 and was the organizer of the fifth atomists’ cycling racing.

The representatives of Rostov NPP and Volgodonsk city administration and the city Duma gathered to see the sportsmen off. Rostov nuclear plant executive Director Andrey Salnikov and Chairman of the NPP trade union committee Alexander Soroka addressed the bicyclists with farewell words. Archpriest of Volgodonsk district Father Sergiy Sklyarenko blessed the sportsmen for the successful bicycle racing. Daily photo reports about the bicycle racing will be published in the website of Rostov NPP bicycle team www.veloroaes.ru.