Penza, 29 July 2011. PenzaNews. The meeting of the world champion on boxing Nikolay Valuev and the governor Vasily Bochkarev took place in the government of the Penza region on Friday morning, on July, 29th.

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The well-known boxer informed the head of region that he heard a lot about achievements of Penza residents in sport, including the victory of Anastasiya Zueva in the World championship on water sports.

Nikolay Valuev said: "Yesterday I visited and judged the size of sport facilities which are already constructed and under construction in Penza. They are really enormous and it is possible to call them Olympic ones. These facilities in a city with the population of 600 thousand persons are worth a city with population exceeding one million people".

He also said about an intention to open his own school of boxing in Penza. The head of region said that the base approaching for it will be in the Palace of martial arts which is constructed in the city.

Vasily Bochkarev said: "There will be a fine hotel complex also and I suggest holding tournaments named after well-known boxer from the Penza region Roman Karmazina and named afer Nikolay Valueva.

Nikolay Valuev underlined the necessity of organization of youth leisure time and noticed that new school of boxing becomes one more place to distract young men from computers and will promote healthy way of life.