Moscow (VNA) – The 2019 Vietnamese Students' Sport Festival kicked offin Moscow on May 1, drawing more than 1,000 athletes who are Vietnamesestudents learning in Russia.
A new feature of thisyear’s event is the participation of a team from the All-Union Leninist YoungCommunist League of the host country.
During the five-dayfestival, participants are competing in four sports of men’s football, women’sfootball, relay run, and tug-of-war.
In his openingremarks, Tran Duy Thanh, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union chapterin Russia, said that the festival is the largest annual sport and culturalevent of the Vietnamese community in the country.
It serves as a venuefor Vietnamese students in Russia to strengthen solidarity, Thanh added.
The festival was firstheld in Moscow in 1998 as a football tournament for Vietnamese students.-VNA