07 ноября 200710:06
SKB-Bank holds cabbage-throwing contest in Surgut
SKB-Bank organized a cabbage-throwing contest in Surgut on November 4, 2007 (a state holiday in Russia and the day the bank celebrated its 17th anniversary). The championship was held in a square next to Surgut State University; the agenda of the event included both the cabbage-throwing proper and other entertaining activities like round dancing, cabbage volleyball, and treating people to cabbage pies and cabbage-filled pancakes. A 29-year-old plumber Vyacheslav Soldatov, whose cabbage flew a distance of forty-seven meters, won the first prize of $300. Such championships have already been