The Baikal search team from Irkutsk returned with a brilliant victory from the All Russia gathering of museums and military patriotic groups in Anapa. They led in contests, sports relays and museum projects, and took part in patriotic events, meetings with veterans and help for disabled children.

The Baikal search team returned with another victory from the All-Russian Rally of Museums and Military-Patriotic Associations. The session was held from September 20 to October 7, 2012, at the Federal Children's Center “Smena” (Krasnodar Krai, Anapa). It was attended by 152 people from 14 regions of Russia. This was reported by the commander of the Baikal search team, Valentina Zyablova.
The trip of the Irkutsk residents took place with financial support from the administration of the city of Irkutsk.
The guys from the search teams, museum, and military-patriotic associations competed with one another in sports relays, creative, and educational contests.
Among the first contests of the session were a photo wall newspaper and the team business card. These contests helped the participants get acquainted and learn more about one another. Already at the first stage of the competition, the Baikal search team confidently took the leading position.
During the military-style relay “Patriots of Russia,” the guys demonstrated the best skills in shooting with an air rifle, putting on a combined-arms protective suit, and medical training.
The rally brought many new, interesting, and instructive things into the lives of the participants, useful for further work in their associations. Special educational programs were developed for the participants – “History of the Russian Vocational School,” “Search Team School,” and “Fundamentals of Museum Work.” All young searchers who attended these workshops and passed the tests received certificates.
In addition to the mandatory competition program, the activity of the delegation at the rally was also taken into account. The guys from the Baikal team held the “Mercy” campaigns: they helped children with disabilities who were undergoing sanatorium treatment at the FDC “Smena.” They organized and conducted military-patriotic events: the round table “Heroes Are Not Born,” a meeting with veterans from the village of Blagoveshchenskaya, and a joint visit to the memorial at the burial site of the soldiers of the 166th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 55th Irkutsk Division who died during the liberation of the village. This large-scale work was organized in close cooperation with the Council of War Veterans of Anapa.
Taking into account their performance skills and excellent military-sports training, the Baikal team was given the honorary right to open, with demonstration hand-to-hand combat performances, the World Universal Fighting Championship and the FSB of Russia Spartakiad, which were held at the FDC “Smena.”
As a result, according to all scoring indicators, the Baikal search team scored the maximum number of points and achieved a brilliant victory!
Results of the Baikal search team in the rally program:
1st place – Business card
1st place – Photo wall newspaper
1st place – Report on the work done over the year
1st place – Search assignment of the rally “The Exhibit Will Tell About the War”
1st place – Museum project
1st place – Museum exhibition
Best guides of the rally – Pavel Slesarchuk,
Alexander Tokarev, Tatyana Zakharenko
1st place – Military-sports marathon “Patriots of Russia”
1st place – in the contest “Dances of My Region”
1st place – Ivan Udartsev, quiz dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
2nd place – Tourist relay “Green Planet”
The “Golden Voice” of the rally (based on the results of the patriotic song contest) – Alexander Tokarev.
Based on materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk