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Kyiv Pool Goes Upscale

26 June, 00:00

By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, The Day Of course, many of us still recall the development of mass billiards. Almost in every village club had a rickety pool table with broken pockets bearing the traces of cheap unfiltered cigarettes being put out. But today, stepping into Kyiv's Green Glade Club, with its posh tables for the game once popular among us, old prints on the walls, and quiet luxurious interior, you begin to understand the British aristocrats who relax in their exclusive clubs, whiling away the time playing billiards or cards.

Green Glade's elite character is not concealed by its general director Natalia Mahdyk who received journalists attending a press conference on the occasion of the first international amateur billiards tournament between the teams of the embassies and other diplomatic representations accredited to Kyiv.

Volodymyr Platonov, First Vice President of the Ukraine's National Olympic Committee and Rector of the National University of Physical Training, again stressed that this game is regaining its lost popularity. As we know, he was the first in the world to offer in his educational institution special training for billiards umpires. He also invited to his university a well-known expert in this field, President of the World Billiards Confederation JЯrgen Sandman from Sweden. The game is likely to again become a mass diversion owing to their desire and energy. The more so that, in order to popularize the game, it is already planned to hold the European pool and billiards championship in 2000 in Kyiv.

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№24, (1999)

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Society