Published on: 2026-08-27
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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August 27 is celebrated as International Boxing Day. This sport develops strength, endurance, coordination, and reaction speed. In the capital, there are 607 sports zones equipped for boxing. 57 of them are owned by subordinate institutions. Moscow Department of Sports.
You can train in boxing at the comprehensive Olympic reserve sports schools “North,” “South,” and “West,” the comprehensive sports school “New Moscow,” the sports and education center “Sambo-70,” as well as at the Moscow city physical culture and sports association, the Moscow Olympic reserve school, and the Olympic Village sports complex — 80.
There are 1,940 boxers training in these organizations. Among them are 62 Masters of Sport of Russia and six Masters of Sport of Russia of international class. Forty-eight coach-instructors work with the trainees, six of whom have the honorary title of “Honored Coach of Russia.” The national team in 2026 includes 96 Moscow boxers — 10.5 percent of the total number.
Over the past two years, the sports complexes “Ikshinsky” (3a Ikshinskaya Street) and “Ramenki” (19 Ramenki Street) were built for boxing training. In addition, comprehensive major repairs were carried out at the “Dolphin” sports complex (16, building 2, 2nd Volskaya Street) and the “Pobeda” martial arts center (12a Sedova Street). The work was carried out in accordance with the Moscow standard. sports facilities. Specialists replaced all engineering systems (power supply, ventilation, air conditioning, fire extinguishing), as well as repaired the roof, facade, and interior spaces, including sports halls, showers, and waiting areas. The renovation of the sports infrastructure is a key task Moscow sports development strategies until 2030.
Free boxing classes
In the capital, there are also free boxing classes. They are suitable for people of all skill levels. Participants perform lunges, squats, kicks and punches, torso twists, and jumps. This set of exercises helps to master basic self-defense skills and develop the entire body harmoniously.
In the “Voshod Solntsevo” sports complex, training sessions for teenagers aged 14–17 are held on Thursdays at 20:00 and Saturdays at 19:00, while for adults aged 45–59, sessions take place on Thursdays at 22:00 and Saturdays at 21:00. Children aged 7–11 can attend the section at the Nekrasovka Sports Palace on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 08:00.
At the Russian Capoeira Center in Ptichny, boxing classes are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 17:30 for children aged 8–14 and at 18:10 for children aged 8–11. Additionally, there is a group for children aged 11–14 that meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 17:30 and Saturdays at 10:00. Training sessions for athletes aged 10–18 are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 18:10 and Saturdays at 10:40.
To join the sections, you need to register through the “Services” section on the portal “Moscow Sport”.
Classes are organized By the Department of Sports of the City of Moscow and correspond to the goals of the Russian Federation’s state program “Development of Physical Culture and Sports” of the national project “Sport of Russia”. One of them is to increase the proportion of citizens who regularly engage in physical culture and sports to 70 percent by 2030. In Moscow, special attention is paid to the walking accessibility of sports infrastructure, support for families with children, as well as the integration of participants and veterans of the special military operation and their family members into the sports community. More about Russia’s national projects and the capital’s contribution can be found at special page.
To find out how the capital has changed in recent years, what initiatives aimed at making residents’ lives even more comfortable are currently being implemented, and what awaits Moscow and its inhabitants in the near future, you can visit the large-scale special project on the portal mos.ru, dedicated to the development of key sectors in Moscow. These include transport, industry, healthcare, education, sports, and construction.
On the project’s page “Sport” Information is presented about the reconstruction of dozens of historic sports facilities, including the Olympic complex “Luzhniki”, the ski complex “Vorobyovy Gory”, and the equestrian complex “Bitza”, as well as about sports infrastructure available to every city resident.
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