Ethnosport World Society (EWS), Northern Forum, UgraMegaSport and Save Ugra public organization signed a Memorandum of Understanding and agreed to jointly promote the preservation, development, and popularization of traditional games and ethnosport as an integral part of the intangible cultural heritage, to support each other, and to render assistance in creating a platform for information and knowledge exchange in these fields.
The Memorandum was signed on 30 June 2018 in Nefteyugansk during the meeting chaired by the Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra Natalya Komarova. The document was signed by President of Ethnosport World Society Alexey Kylasov, Executive Director of the Northern Forum Mikhail Pogodaev, Director of UgraMegaSport Valery Radchenko and President of Save Ugra public organization Lyudmila Alfyorova.