Sport-expeditionary club “Viking-Nevo”
(Smolensk, Russia)

The Viking-Nevo club is a public youth organization which was founded in 1988. The club has about 300 members including people from Finland and Sweden. The main club’s activities are following:

· organizing annual scientific and sport expeditions and voyages

The Viking-Nevo club is one of the world leaders in exploring the ancient water route “from Varangians to Greeks”. Since 1988 the 17 large-scale scientific research expeditions were organized along this ancient waterway. Eight voyages were realized within the bounds of international joint project in co-operation with Vikings from Norway, Sweden and Finland. Read more…

· organizing ecological work with the youth

In June 1995 the school forestry “Viking” was founded by joint decision of the Viking-Nevo club and Smolensk Forest Department. The Viking-Nevo club includes the ecological sections of the six Smolensk schools and two schools of Smolensk region. The club has the close contacts with the national park “Smolensk Lakes”. Read more…

· popularization the aquatic and winter sports, tourism and a healthy living

The Viking-Nevo club develops the aquatic kinds of sports: swimming, rowing, sailing, as well as skiing, tourism and sport orienteering. Since the year 2000 the team of the Viking-Nevo club represents Russia on the international Winter Viking Games in Finland — the Viking-Nevo team is the three time winner of this competition. Read more…

The Viking-Nevo club is rewarded with:

The Medal of Russian Geographical Association;
The Big Medal of Russian Association for Environmental Protection;
The II Grade Diploma of the Boat Rowing Championship of Soviet Union, 1990;
The Big Crystal Turtle — the main prize of the IV international festival “Children and Ecology XXI Century”;
The main prize of the Winter Viking Games as three time winner of the competition (2001, 2003 and 2005 years).

The Viking-Nevo club is the winner of

Russian competitions of educational research projects “Water on the Earth” and “Man on the Earth”,
All-Russian competition “Podrost”,

and the prize-winner of

All-Russian tourist youth movement “Otechestvo”.

Contacts:

The chief of the Viking-Nevo club:
Sergey SUHORUCHENKOV

Address: Vorobieva 6/7, Smolensk, 214013, Russia
Tel.: +7-0812-66-43-45
E-mail: viking-nevo@yandex.ru
Internet: http://viking-nevo.narod.ru