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Championships Ambassadors

Renowned, talented and merited athletes and public figures who serve as strong role models for present-day youth were awarded the Kazan 2015 Ambassador title. The names of the first Ambassadors were revealed one year before the start of the FINA World Championships.
Ambassadors are part of the Kazan 2015 team and promote positive values, sport and healthy lifestyles.

Alexander Samokutyaev

Test-cosmonaut. Hero of the Russian Federation. Soyuz spacecraft commander who spent 331 days 11 hours and 39 minutes in space on two flights and had three spacewalks with a total duration of 13 hours and 45 minutes.

Member of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft crew that took the capsule with water from the Kazanka River to the International Space Station (ISS).
Alina Gizzatullina

Winner of the Nauruz Guzale Republican Competition. Winner of the first edition of the Tatar Kyzy All-Russian Tatar Beauty Pageant (2014). Student of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, Environmental Engineering and Water Usage Department

One of the founders of the Ufa volunteer team
Anton Salakaev

Founder and artistic director of the Volga-Volga band that formed in 1998. The band takes part in various charity and fundraising events, puts on concerts at schools and children's homes. The Volga-Volga band performs its own songs, Soviet-era songs and covers of popular songs. The band gives up to 90 gigs each year.

While at school, Anton played water polo which allowed him to build up stamina and endurance.
Artem Silchenko

Famous Russian high diver. Russian diving champion (2001), world high diving champion (2006), Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champion (2013). He finished 6th at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona and placed 4th at the 2014 FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan. He earned bronze at the 2015 FINA World Chmapionships in Kazan. Repeat winner and runner-up of international high diving and cliff diving tournaments. Water show performing artist.

Silchenko took the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title after executing a perfect back armstand dive with two and a half somersaults, two and a half twists and a blind entry