Nikolai, it's great to be able to talk to you about your “child” - I mean the World Armwrestling Grand Pri х А 1 Russian Open . What is the exact date of the event this year? The official date is 23 – 25 th July 2015. Let's recall the years that the A1 took place : 012, 2013, 2014. How were they different from each other? That's a very large topic. I'll try to be brief. The first A1 was perceived by everybody as something unreal bordering on downright stupid.I felt like the naive romantic of our sport, I had very little support from anyone. Stories of armwrestling popularization, evolution and induction into the Olypmics caused laughter and doubt. But experience has shown something different. During that short period armwrestling has changed for better. At a global scale, the general popularisation and the works on disabled armwrestling led to the formation of IAFD and the historical inclusion into the IWAS games. The smiles were wiped. People realized there are no limits and that