| Russian Cup | |
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| Awarded for | Outstanding sports contributions to tennis |
| Country | Russia |
| Presented by | Russian Tennis Federation |
| First awarded | 1994 |
| Website | ruscup.ru |
The Russian Cup (Russian: Русский Кубок; pronounced [ˈruskʲɪj ˈkubək]) is an annual major national Russian sports award given to tennis players, coaches, companies and other organizations and people that contributed to the development of this sport in Russia. The cup was established in 1994 by then-Vice President of the Russian Tennis Federation Dmitry Vikharev and the President of IC Arman. It was organized by Anatoly Gusev in the following two years, and after his death in 1996 his wife Lyudmila Guseva and businessman Alexander Cherkasov continued its organization.
Since 1998, the committee includes such major tennis people as President of the RTF Shamil Tarpishchev. In 1998 the place for the ceremony was relocated from the Cinema Centre "Solovey" on the Krasnaya Presna to the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel. Only once, in 2003, was the award presented in the Cinema House in Moscow.[1] The awardee receives a statue illustrating the Russian two-headed eagle, which was created by designer Igor Kamenev.[1] It can't be bought although it exists in the catalog of its supplier.[2] The Kremlin Cup was named top tournament nine times, once as the organizer of the professional and the junior events.
- ^ a b История создания [History] (in Russian). Russian Cup. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^ "Приз "Русский кубок" KbV-02(3)-R". zlatoust.com (in Russian). Retrieved 11 March 2021.