The Lev Perminov memorial mini soccer tournament has remained one of Irkutsk Region s largest sports events for 24 years. This year more than 850 players take part. First held in 1990 with just eight teams, it now draws more football fans from across the region. The piece also tells about Lev Perminov, the Irkutsk journalist and sports commentator after whom it is named.
The Lev Perminov Memorial Mini-Football Tournament is a traditional sporting event that, year after year, draws more and more football fans from all over the Irkutsk Region. This year, more than 850 football players are taking part in the tournament.It has already been 24 years since the passing of the renowned journalist Lev Perminov, but thanks to this mass tournament he is still with us, and football in the Irkutsk Region is becoming an increasingly popular sport.
The Lev Perminov Memorial Tournament was held for the first time in 1990, when eight teams took part in it. In 2012, 72 teams from various municipalities of the Irkutsk Region took part in the competition.
Lev Petrovich Perminov (1922-1990) was a widely known Irkutsk journalist and sports commentator in the 1940s and 1950s, announcer for Irkutsk Radio and the newsreel film magazine Eastern Siberia. A front-line officer. He had no formal professional education. He was a recognized master of sports radio reporting: he was called the “Irkutsk Sinyavsky,” the “knight of the pen and the microphone.”