OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2010. The 7th open All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition – ASMAP-Profi-2010 – among enterprises of the Volga Federal District and competitions for the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny 2010 devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of Tatarstan will take place in Naberezhnye Chelny.

This evening, the competitors will parade along the city’s avenues and streets. There will be race cars of KAMAZ-master team, vehicles of vintage car clubs, and bikes of bikers’ and cyclists’ clubs in one rank with linehaul trains. This cavalcade will be accompanied by a truck with the Visit Brass Band of Tatarstan’s Ministry of the Interior.

At 10 a.m. tomorrow, the competition will be opened on the city’s Maidan where traditional national holidays and great cultural events are usually held. The referees of the competition will be representatives of the Auto Racing Federation (Moscow) under the direction of Firdaus Kabirov, the RF Honoured Master of Sports, a laureate of the State Prize, a repeated prize-winner of the Dakar International Rally-Raid.

At the same time, the city’s young go-karters, sky surfers, pupils of an equestrian sport school will show their skills before an audience on the Maidan. Workers of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Special Purpose Police Unit will demonstrate road accident prevention activities. When the referee’s board sums up the results of the competition, the spectators will be able to participate in a contest named “The Russian Super Hauler” trying to drag haulers.

Next to the Maidan, in front of a shopping centre, a contest of children’s drawings will be organized – “Kids Draw Victory!”. It is also planned to hold a charity event under a motto “Russia’s Long-Haul Truckers to Children” in the course of which assistance will be rendered to a lot of families bringing up children with disabilities.