Bright, mass sports events were also held in our region. One of which is the Komsomol Trade Union Cross, which was told by a member of the East Kazakhstan Region national team, coach, director of the children’s athletics sports school Alexander Morozov Sergeevich. According to Alexander Sergeevich, this mass event took place in September 1966. At this Komsomol trade Union cross there were such famous people as: Anatoly Fedorovich Nazarov – the chief judge of the competition, chairman of the regional council of the DSO (voluntary sports society); “Enbek”; Gennady Dorofeevich Ivanov – Honored Coach of the Kazakh SSR; Mikhail Fedorovich Nazarov – competition starter, instructor of the regional Council of Trade Unions for physical culture and sports; Lyudmila Ivanovna Fadeeva – Master of sports of International Class in athletics, record holder of Kazakhstan in 100m, 200m and 400m running; Alexandra Vasilyevna Solovyova – director of the regional sports school of youth Gennady Shkatulov – Master of Sports in biathlon; Vasily Konovalov – Master of sports in modern pentathlon; Gennady Dorfeyevich Ivanov – Honored Coach of the Kazakh SSR; Alexander Alexandrovich Dolgikh – Chairman of the DSO of Trade Unions; Gennady Vasilyevich Abustin – athletics coach; Stanislav Petrovich Saveliev – Master of Sports of the USSR in athletics, coach of the Highest category; Gennady Shkatulov – Master of Sports of the USSR in biathlon. Alexander Sergeevich’s pupils also took part: Valera Manapov, Nikolay Sizikov, Viktor Filipenko, Elena Polulyakh, Galya Antropova. About 400 people took part in the Komsomol Trade Union Cross, the event began at 10.00 a.m. and lasted until 14.00 p.m. The opening and closing parade of the competition were excellent. Athletes from all sports took part.
After the Komsomol trade Union cross, the national team of the region took part in the Republican competition in Almaty, where it took 2nd place (the first place was taken by the team from Karaganda, and the third place was taken by the team from Almaty). Due to the fact that the team from Karaganda had objective reasons for not participating in the All-Union competitions, by the decision of the Kazakh Republican Committee of the Trade Union, a team from the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk was sent to this event. At this competition, the Ust-Kamenogorsk team took 8th place out of 16 teams. But it was a great success for the team, because the team was left with cities such as Krasnoyarsk, Yaroslavl, etc. The team from the Kazakh SSR performed well, there were also winners of the competition.
