A team of institute employees takes part in the public project "Man Walking"

18  10.2022 This year, for the first time, a team of employees of our institute takes part in the public project "Man Walking", the purpose of which is motivation for daily physical activity.

The All-Russian program for increasing physical activity "Man Walking" was launched in 2019 by the All-Russian public organization "League of the Health of the Nation" with the support of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. The ideologist of the program is Leo Bokeria, chief freelance specialist, cardiovascular surgeon of the Ministry of Health of Russia, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The program is the first open interuniversity, municipal, corporate and healthy lifestyle competitions in the team standings in terms of the number of steps for a certain period of time.
Traditionally, competitions are held in autumn in two stages. The first stage is from September 10 to October 10. The second stage is from October 15 to November 15.
At the moment, more than 92,000 people (3,435 teams from all regions of Russia) participate in the competitions in all categories of competitions. From our Institute, 18 people from departments took part in the healthy lifestyle team:

• AIDS Center
• Lab. Molecular Epidemiology of Viral Infections (MEVI)
• Lab. Molecular biology and biotechnology
• Lab. Human microbiome and means of its correction
• Lab. Metagenomics and molecular display of pathogens
• Lab. Microbiology
• Lab. Immunochemistry

The main stage of the All-Russian Background Walking Championship "Man Walking" started on 10/15/2022 and will last until 11/15/2022.

We wish our participants good luck, excellent physical shape and good mood!!!