For over four years now. For more than four years now, a television

The program "Half an hour retro". Its author and permanent leader is Sergey TIKHONIN, a resident of the city of Kayerkan. Today, his colorful mustachioed face is recognized in the city by very, very many.
Sergey Fedorovich has truly unique knowledge in the field Soviet stage 60-80s. It is interesting that they were acquired by him not only because of his natural curiosity and the opportunity to receive a wide variety of information at the place of work of his wife Olga (she works in one of the Kayerkan libraries), but also due to the fact that Tikhonin himself, in the seventies studying at the St. Petersburg GITMIK ( State Institute theatrical skills and culture), very actively collaborated with many of the most famous then VIA. The warmest and friendly relations developed with him with the team of the ensemble "Kalinka". Sergei is also personally acquainted with other St. Petersburg and Moscow musicians of the "major league" of past years, including Edita Piekha, Eduard Khil, Irina Ponarovskaya and many others. But, as they say, knowing is not enough, you also need to love. Sergei Tikhonin selflessly loves the songs of the time that is moving farther and farther away from us. He loves and helps others to love them. Today, songs of the 60-80s are heard on a variety of television and radio broadcasts. Konstantin Ernst made three two-hour films of "old songs about the main thing" for ORT. Dipping into retro music has become fashionable among the electronic media. Perhaps the new owners of TV channels and radio stations are simply nostalgic for the dollar for 63 kopecks. Or record company owners look back longingly at the years when the "black roger" of rampant piracy did not hover proudly over the music market. And, perhaps, it is the history of mankind that develops, as has already been proven, in a spiral ... True, there is one "but". For some reason, all the songs of the carefree pioneer years are sung today, to put it mildly, in a rather free arrangement. In fashionable arrangements, in endless electronic bells and whistles, in the weak vocals of contemporaries and contemporaries, one can hardly guess the lyrical mood that the listener would like to tune in to. Tikhonin treats this aspect very, very carefully. He, with the help of his friends Alexei Prokhorov and Sergei Kuzmin, more than once or twice restored the original sound from gramophone records worn almost to holes, from tapes that were crumbling to transparency. The sound in his transmissions, or speaking modern language, soundtracks of programs - this is perhaps the main achievement. It is a pity that no one has yet become interested in the work of the guys and has not begun to produce the fruits of their labors with excellent quality ... * * * I was lucky to help Sergei in the preparation, filming, editing and airing of the very first programs of "Half an hour retro". It happened late autumn 1994 on the night air of the Youth Channel on SKTV Channel-7. The very first release included the songs "Farewell to Bratsk", "On the dusty paths of distant planets ...", "Carabella" ... Sergey suggested then an unexpected move - to recruit not a video, but a photo sequence for the song, since the photographs on the covers of the records , in Melodiya magazines, books and other sources, unlike video materials, more or less was enough. It was only later that Sergey and his assistants began to mount entire clips from films of past years on songs. TV viewers also helped, who began to send not only disks and tape recordings, but also, which is generally priceless, video materials. With each release, the program has become more professional. Tikhonin did not change only one thing: the image he found of a "smart mustachioed head" speaking from the screen in long, most competently constructed phrases about music and musicians. Therefore, you need to listen to it at least in order to learn how to speak in front of a large crowd of people. Although some believe that "Fedorych is too boring and talks for a long time." Apparently, these newly-minted music lovers either never listened to Tikhonin carefully, or do not like retro music, or simply envy him. Not so long ago, Tikhonin discovered a whole world of songs from the 30s, 40s and 50s. According to his confession, he simply fell in love with these people, in the spirit of that time. Several Tikhonin programs have already been dedicated to those unforgettable years and performers. Sergey is not going to leave this topic in the future. * * * A month ago, a holiday dedicated to the anniversary - hundredth - issue of "Half an hour of retro" was held in the city center of culture. To be honest, I went to this concert with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I have great respect for Sergei Fedorovich for his asceticism. On the other hand... for some reason I was sure that the live version of "Half an Hour Retro" would be long and boring. The fact is that not everything that we see on TV looks as interesting and dynamic on stage. But the fears turned out to be unfounded. Creative Group GCC and Sergey Tikhonin prepared and spent a wonderful evening, which, despite its length, left in the memory a picture of something very bright, pleasant and festive. The concert was led by Sergey Fedorovich himself, who for the first time in my memory dressed in a tuxedo, and the director of the cultural center, Yuri Fomin, who later admitted that he had not felt such satisfaction from his work for a long time. The masters of the Norilsk stage - Alexander Nagorny, Nikita Kovalenko, Natalya Kirakosyan, Evgeny Shkarupa, Oleg Nikiforov and Evgeny Ilyenkov, performed for the assembled audience, for whom the performance of retro songs for the restaurant public is a daily duty, and they sang them with pleasure from the concert stage . A variety of songs sounded - from "My Clear Star" to "The Carrier's Song", from "Jamaica" to "Mother's Record". The program was attended by guitarist Alexei Zhdanov, author and performer Sergei Naumov, dance quartet Malko, as well as two sons of Tikhonin himself (father of four children!). And in the second part of the audience a surprise awaited. A friend of Sergei Tikhonin, Vladimir Dyadenistov, a former vocalist of VIA "Kalinka", who is now the artistic director of the St. Petersburg Rock Opera Theater, flew in from St. Petersburg especially to participate in the anniversary program. Vladimir sang several songs, and then, dressed in stage costume, performed two arias from Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera "Jesus Christ Super Star" (from the Russian version). Long-forgotten goosebumps crawled up my hardened skin... That unforgettable December holiday was presented to the Norilsk people together with Sergey Tikhonin by the specialists of the city center of culture, the Kayerkan administration, the Liga-Nord, Dom i Office, Yurmala firms, the Maxim trading house ", music stores "Panorama" and "Kaleidoscope", studio "Channel-7", television company "Nago-TV", book salon "Natta-press". * * * The 100th issue has died down, but the program "Half an hour of retro" continues to live on. Tikhonin's works should be looked for in the air grids of "Nago-TV" and "Channel-7". The song remains with the person, the song does not say goodbye to us, for which Sergey bows low. A. ARSENIEV. Photo by the author (with the support of the photo center "Kodak" - Leninsky, 31).

The development of a child at 4 years old is associated with his further growing up. The kid has grown up, you have changed the size of clothes more than once. He is mobile and inquisitive, speaks well and expresses his thoughts. The child begins to show character, is affirmed as a person. He can do many things and is actively learning new things. Some children at this age know all the letters, count to ten, begin to read in syllables.

Physical development of a four-year-old child

The growth of a four-year-old boy reaches 98.3-105.5 cm, girls - 98.5-104.1 cm. The boy weighs 15.1-17.8 kg, the girl - 14.8-17.7 kg. By the age of four, the genetic characteristics of children appear; for parents of short stature, the child is likely to be small too. With a tall dad and mom, babies stretch faster in height. Height and weight also depend on activity, nutrition, living conditions. Developmental delay helps to establish a special table with norm indicators. If a child's indicators are greatly underestimated or overestimated, he may need to consult an endocrinologist.

Motor skills in preschoolers become more perfect. They are extremely active, constantly running, jumping, not sitting still for a minute. Children can go up and down stairs without support, with a calm step and run. They climb the Swedish wall, overcome obstacles. They ride a tricycle well, play with a ball. They can stand on one leg for about nine seconds. They tumble over their heads and are able to perform complex gymnastic exercises. True, they have problems with balance, because it needs to be developed.

Fine motor skills of the hands also reach great development. Children can accurately draw different shapes, triangles, circles, squares. They manage to portray some animals, flowers, trees, little people. Some begin to write elements of letters in cursive. In coloring, they almost do not go beyond the lines. A four-year-old child can string beads and buttons on a string. He builds high turrets from cubes, fold constructors.

In everyday life, children by the age of four are very independent. They drink well from a mug, eat with a spoon, fork, some equip with a table knife. They know how to wash themselves and brush their teeth. Putting on clothes is not a problem for them, except that it is not always possible to cope with buttons and laces. It is very important at this time to instill in the child hygiene skills, remind them to brush their teeth, wash their hands. It is necessary to teach the baby to fold toys after class, which is very important for the development of accuracy.

Mental and speech development of the child

By the age of four, the child is actively developing thinking. The thousands of questions that he asks are just a manifestation of this development. At the age of three, the kid mainly used a practical, visual-effective type of thinking. He independently tried to figure out the structure of objects, pressing buttons, levers, breaking toys. Now visual-figurative is joining this type. The kid learns to perceive images and schemes of objects, to use their individual properties. This perception manifests itself very clearly when drawing. The child depicts only the most important details. For example, for a picture of a house, it is enough for him to draw a square with a roof, he depicts a cat on four legs with a tail and mustache.

The development of a more complex type of thinking, logical, is just beginning by the age of four. It manifests itself in the ability to generalize the properties of things, find the same features in them and group objects according to these features. It is still difficult for a child to understand abstract things. From specific images associated with words, move on to general ones. To stimulate mental development, you need to deal with the child, teach him what “time”, “number”, “measure” are.

The speech of the child by the age of four becomes more complicated. He owns more than a thousand words, pronounces almost all sounds and letters. Knows how to correctly compose sentences of 4-6 words, use verbs, adjectives, additions, conjugate nouns in cases. Sometimes in a conversation he makes grammatical errors, but this happens less and less. The preschooler gets a fairly coherent retelling of the events, the content of the book read. A four-year-old child likes to compose new words, they seem to him more suitable for the names of certain objects. The kid already clearly answers questions, can fulfill 3-4 instructions from adults. He knows his own name, the names of his father and mother, grandparents. Can give his address, the address of a friend, grandparents.

Children's imagination develops actively. They compose fairy tales, play difficult role-playing games. Sometimes they invent monsters and monsters for themselves, and then they are afraid of them. You need to patiently explain to the child that his fears are in vain. In no case do not scare the children yourself, this is far from The best way obtain obedience from them. Preschool children improve their memory, they accumulate in their heads the results of their cognitive activity. They already know several colors, quickly remember new ones. They name up to 4-5 figures, including three-dimensional ones. They learn by heart and recite verses from 4-8 stanzas. Children who have good hearing sing songs and remember melodies well.

Emotional and social development of the child

The psycho-emotional development of children at the age of four is no less intense than the intellectual one. The child learned to cope with his feelings, mastered the basic rules of behavior. He can still be moody, but not aggressive. Although new problems appear at this age, the baby suddenly becomes withdrawn, sad, and does not show interest in his peers. He has another transitional period, a new stage of self-awareness as a person. He has already learned to evaluate his actions and perfectly understands when he does well and when he does not. If the baby is often punished for wrong actions, and successes and good behavior ignore, he develops complexes. It seems to the child that no one loves him, that he is bad. When a preschooler is hyperactive, such problems result in uncontrollable behavior. In calm children, they are more likely to manifest depression.

In order to avoid problems of an emotional nature, you need to create a favorable atmosphere in the family. It is important for a child not only how they are addressed to him, but also the relationship of parents to each other. Adults need to take it seriously age features the psyche of a preschooler, pay attention to his mood.

Try to understand why he is sad. Perhaps the baby has problems communicating with other children. Maybe the problem is you, you scold him too often, load him with training. It is worth contacting a specialist when a bad mood is not an accidental episode, but a permanent condition, for 2-3 weeks or a month. Parents should be wary if the preschooler suddenly became very aggressive, began to stutter, stopped making contact with you or with peers.

Social contacts for a four-year-old child become a necessity. He has already mastered the first lessons of communication with children. Now he is actively mastering his role in games, occupies a certain place in the children's team. The child has friends and enemies, he begins to quarrel and put up with them. Four-year-old children are less selfish than before. They know how to share toys, treats. Although it happens that a child is greedy, hiding his things from others. Try to gently explain that this is not necessary. After all, no one wants to be friends with greedy people. And if today he shares with others, tomorrow they will share with him.

The regimen and nutrition of the child

In the period from three to four years, the child completely switches to the table that adults eat. This does not mean that you do not need to pay attention to his nutrition. After all, the baby is growing and actively developing, he needs energy. In many children at this age, the appetite is disturbed, the mother has to be very resourceful in order to cook something for the baby. Children by the age of four eat 4 times a day. Half of the total amount of food should be for breakfast and dinner, a little more than a third for lunch and about 15% for an afternoon snack. The diet of the baby should be complete, include all the main ingredients, vitamins and trace elements. Here are the products recommended for cooking (also their daily volume):

• Meat (chicken, rabbit, turkey, beef, lean pork) - 120-130 grams.
• Fish, preferably sea
• Any cereals - 60-70 grams
• Vegetable oil and butter 10 g and 25 g respectively
• Cottage cheese - 50 g, milk - 500 g
• Various vegetables - 220-260 grams
• Fruits and berries - 220-260 grams
• Bread (white and rye) - 120-150 grams.

For breakfast, the baby can make vegetable casseroles, cottage cheese with sour cream, milk porridge, an omelet or a boiled egg. For lunch, the baby must have soup, a fresh salad, vegetable puree, meat or fish, juice or compote. For an afternoon snack, a child can be given fruit, cookies, yogurt. Dinner should not be too dense. Prepare vegetable stews, pancakes, pasta casserole with fish or chicken. Before going to bed, the baby can drink a glass of milk or kefir. Do not snack between meals, otherwise the child's appetite will deteriorate.

As before, at the age of four, it is necessary to observe the daily routine. Food, walks, lessons and activities the child should do at the same time. This is especially important for children who go to kindergarten. If during the holidays you wean him off the regime, it will be physically difficult for him to get used to it again. The baby now sleeps once a day for 1-2 hours. Some children gradually begin to refuse daytime sleep, by the age of 6-7 these will be the majority. At night healthy baby practically does not wake up, does not scream, except that he experienced an emotional shock during the day, was frightened by loud sounds. He sleeps at night for about 9-10 hours, wakes up at 7-8 in the morning, and should fall asleep at 9 in the evening.

Sports activities with a four-year-old child

By the age of four, the baby is already well physically strong. He is very active, but his balance is still poorly developed, try to improve it. Help in this exercise on the crossbar, walking on a beam, on a curb or at home on a carpet on toes and on tiptoe. Try to show how to make a swallow, stand on one leg, like a heron.

The age of 4 years is the time to send the baby to the sports section. Do not set yourself the task of making him outstanding athlete, the child should play sports with pleasure, and not under duress. Do regular exercises with a preschooler, buy him rings, a crossbar, a Swedish wall, if you have not purchased these simulators so far.

Teaching language and logical thinking

At four years old, the child is learning well. You can start learning a foreign language with him. If you know it yourself, try learning the language at home. Help in this video, special materials and educational literature, developing cards. Native speech also needs to be improved. Read books together, learn poems, sayings, riddles. It is also worth paying attention to how the child speaks, gently and unobtrusively correcting his mistakes. If he does not pronounce certain letters and sounds well, a speech therapist may need to be consulted. There are different methods of correcting speech, a specialist will help you choose the most suitable one.

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The child needs classes to develop logic. Prepare cards with pictures of various objects. Let the child choose from them images with the same properties, exclude unnecessary ones. Develop logic and various labyrinths from which you need to find a way out. They can be drawn on paper or made from bulk materials. Learn to count with your baby, he is already able to operate with numbers within ten. To study arithmetic, you can use pictures in a special textbook, counting sticks or ordinary pencils. The alphabet is quickly perceived by children by the age of four. Preschoolers whose parents practice early development already know how to read. If you have not yet learned letters with your baby, it's time to start. Be sure to buy a notebook in which the baby will learn to write. Many children dream of becoming adults and going to school. They may like the game of teacher and student, and they will be more willing to master the material.

Creative development of the child

Don't forget about creative activities. They are necessary for harmonic psychological development child. Buy him various educational toys and coloring books, try to get the kid to do visual activities on his own. Lay out cards in front of him, let him draw whatever he wants on them. It is also not necessary to paint with the colors that are on the sample, it is better when the child shows imagination. Modeling improves motor skills, children at the age of 4 can already make rather complex objects from plasticine, birds, animals, cars, people, whole compositions. In addition, the baby should be able to hold scissors in his hands, cut out pictures along the contours, and make applications. Creative activities should include dancing, learning songs. Gymnastics should also be done to the music, so the child will be more interesting and more fun.

By the age of four, the level of development in different children is different. Some show more creativity others are better at math. Someone speaks beautifully, recites poetry, and someone prefers playing sports. That is why it is so important for the upbringing of children to take into account their individual characteristics. If the development and behavior of the child does not go beyond the norm, parents have nothing to worry about. Your baby's development plan should be his own, you should not compare it with other children. In no case should you overload children with classes, arrange endless tests and checks for them, or forcibly develop perseverance. If you overdo it, the child can be discouraged from learning forever.

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Original taken from iov75 The Curious Religious Composition of Assad's Army's Top Officers

Why Assad's army is not retreating (The National Interest, USA)

The American magazine The National Interest, which pays great attention to the situation in Syria, released the material “Why Assad's Army Has Not Defected.” The Federal News Agency offers readers a translation of this material.

Four years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then Prime Minister of Turkey, said that "in just a few weeks" he would "pray at the Grand Mosque of Damascus", since the army of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should, in his opinion, "is about to fall." Following Erdogan, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed a similar point of view. When both of these politicians built their assumptions on this matter in 2012, neither the Iranian military nor the Russian air force was yet on the Syrian side.

With failure next round peace talks, when the whole world is frozen in anticipation of the next turn of events in Syria, it is time to turn to the warnings of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Kissinger and Brzezinski, as the most experienced and influential American politicians on the Middle East since World War II, opposed conventional wisdom and declared that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was supported by large quantity people and forces than all the national opposition groups combined.

It's no secret that the authorities Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States tried to bribe some officials from the circle of politicians close to Assad to undermine his forces. However, the professional military cadres of the Syrian army remained absolutely loyal to their leader.

For the most part, the Syrian army consists of conscripts and only about eighty thousand professional soldiers. At the beginning of the conflict, much attention was paid to the deserting thousands of soldiers, but these were the few conscripts who were never particularly eager to serve in the army, and even in Peaceful time, most likely, would have tried to find a way to evade this duty. The professional ranks, meanwhile, are still very strong and multi-confessional. When representatives of the Syrian opposition talk about the multi-confessional future of Syria, they do not realize that while they are discussing in Geneva, Washington or Vienna, their representatives in Syria are collaborating with the most fanatical and radical terrorist groups in the entire Middle East.

The Syrian army has been holding its positions for more than five years. Its numbers may have decreased a little, which, in principle, is inevitable in the conditions of any military conflict. Upon closer examination, the not entirely obvious fact becomes clear that the backbone of the Syrian army is made up of Sunnis. The current Syrian Defense Minister, Fahed Jassim al-Fredj, is one of the most decorated military officials in the history of the Syrian army, and he hails from the central Sunni region of Hama. The two most important leaders of the Syrian intelligence services, Ali Mamluk and Mohammed dib Zaitoun, have also proven their loyalty to the Assad government more than once, and both are Sunnis who come from very influential families. The now deceased member of the intelligence service, Rustum Ghazali, who briefly led Lebanon, was also a Sunni; the head of the intelligence department of the political administration, Mahmoud al-Khattib, also comes from one of the most ancient Sunni families of Damascus, as can be said about many other military officials.

The history of the Syrian army formed by Hafez al-Assad is very instructive. As president, Assad Sr. appointed high-ranking members of the Syrian Air Force to the posts of the army's high command. Naji Jameel (Sunni) served as Air Force Commander from 1970 to 1978 and was promoted and transferred to the General Staff Committee to oversee the security of the border with Iraq. Among the lucky recipients of this kind of promotion were Mohammed al-Khouli, who until 1993 held enviable positions in the logistics sector between Damascus and Lebanon, as well as Rustum Ghazali, Ghazem al-Khadra and Dib Zaitoun, all of whom were Sunnis. Since 1973, the strategically important tank battalions of the 17th Armed Brigade, located near Damascus in the town of al-Kishwa, consisted of ordinary Alawites, commanded by such prominent Sunni officers as Hassan Turkmani and Hikmat Shehabi.

From the 1970s until the 1990s, the Syrian army carried out orders to stabilize the situation in Lebanon. During this period, the Syrian military, supporting their Lebanese puppets, tried to beat the Israeli army and the American navy. In Iraq, after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Americans could not understand which of the Shiite and Sunni rebels was supported by the Syrian military intelligence largely due to the professional skills of its staff.

The Syrian army is at the same time the only army in the entire Middle East that has in its ranks a large number of Christian generals. The most famous of them is Daoud Raja, Chief of Staff Greek origin He professes Greek Orthodoxy. The two most influential this moment Lebanese Christian leaders Michel Aoun and Suleiman Frangieh, they are candidates for the Lebanese presidency, are also allies of the Syrian army and the government of Bashar al-Assad. And the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, which successfully kept the blockade for two years, is a completely Sunni city.

Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the fact remains that the moderate Syrian opposition exists only in the West. In fact, it has no real armed support. Bashar al-Assad still holds the presidency of Syria, not only because of the support of his regime by Russian and Iranian forces, but also because his army, being multi-confessional and hardy, represents a Syria in which religion is not a determining factor in promotion. The Syrian army is also one of the biggest obstacles to the spread of terrorism. That is why three of the highest-ranking British generals over the past five years have openly called on the world community to recognize the Syrian army as the only force capable of suppressing ISIS and al-Qaeda (both organizations are recognized as terrorist Supreme Court Russian Federation, their activities in Russia are prohibited).

HIPPOTHERAPY AS A CHANCE FOR RECOVERY

The horse is one of the symbols of kindness, freedom and fortitude. Imagine this picture: a field along which a stallion runs, cutting open spaces. The view alone is breathtaking. And to be a part of this process is a real pleasure.

Adults squeal with delight when they first sit on a horse. And what can we say about children, and even more so "special" boys and girls. What flurry of emotions does a child with developmental disabilities experience when he is in the saddle? He does not know how to walk, but he sits on a horse himself and is unreasonably happy from this!

It has been proven that contact with horses has a positive effect on human health. Hippotherapy is one of the most effective methods of treating animals through horses. It is aimed at fighting many diseases.

This direction has been successfully developing in the Oryol region for more than four years. On the basis of the Orlovsky Horse Yard "Vyazki", the Children's Rehabilitation Equestrian Center "Boni Club" was created and is successfully operating. The hippotherapy section is visited by boys, girls and even adults with diseases such as cerebral palsy, various disorders of the musculoskeletal system, as well as autism.

Some call hippotherapy therapeutic riding. Indeed, the main effect is achieved precisely through exercises performed on a horse. However, it cannot be said that these two concepts are absolutely identical. After all important condition for healing is not only riding, but also just communicating with a horse, caring for it, - said trainer Alla Kameneva. - Our pupils visit the section 2 - 3 times a week. We use A complex approach: a person warms up and develops muscles while riding a horse, gets a crazy boost of energy and just great pleasure from communicating with this animal.

GOLD AND SILVER AT ALL-RUSSIAN COMPETITIONS

The results of such classes have not only a therapeutic effect. The Oryol guys, under the guidance of their mentors, went further and became real athletes. Para-Olympic Equestrianism is the newest discipline of the International Equestrian Federation. Paralympic dressage is currently the only para-equestrian event included in the Paralympic program.

Who knows, probably very soon among the participants, and possibly the winners, will be the pupils of the "Boni Club". In any case, both the athletes themselves and their coaches have such hopes.

Having noticed good results from hippotherapy, we decided that our guys can go further and engage in equestrian sports. Our hopes were justified. For the first time in the history of the region, two of our pupils became participants in the Open Traditional Moscow Equestrian Cup named after P. Gurvich, - said trainer Maria Semenikhina.

More than 30 athletes from the regions of Russia took part in the competition. Despite the serious competition and the fact that the Oryol participants had to rent horses (the cost of transportation is too high), our fellow countrymen performed brilliantly.

Nine-year-old Valeria Ritarovskaya won a gold medal in her debut competition.

I didn't believe it until the very end when I heard my name. The opponents were so strong, and in age they are all older than me. I am grateful to my coach - this is our common victory, - Valeria shared her impressions.

The girl now cannot imagine her life without horses. She has been studying at the Oryol "Boni Club", located in the village of Vyazki, for three years now.

It all started with hippotherapy, which became a real salvation for us. In a short time, my daughter got rid of the hyperactivity syndrome, became more diligent and attentive. And the horses made her character soft and docile. Nobody expected that therapy would also become a sport in which our girl, I hope, will achieve even greater success, - said the mother of the athlete Ella Koktysh.

An excellent result was shown by another Oryol athlete. 28-year-old Ekaterina Eliseeva received a silver medal at competitions in Moscow.

PRESIDENTIAL GRANT

Very soon, the Oryol athletes with handicapped health will have the opportunity to speak at their site. For the first time, Paralympic equestrian competitions will be held on the basis of the Vyazki horse yard using a grant from the President Russian Federation for development civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Foundation.

On August 30 - 31, we will hold competitions for children with disabilities. Athletes will be able to take part in them not only from the Oryol region, but also from neighboring regions. Prizes await the winners. And of course, it will be a real equestrian holiday with demonstration performances and thematic quizzes. So we are waiting for everyone to visit, - said Maria Semenikhina.

The date for the competition was not chosen by chance. August 31 is the day of memory of Flor and Laurus, who have long been revered in Rus' as the patrons of domestic animals, especially horses. On this day, the equestrian holiday was traditionally celebrated, the horses were not used for work, they were bathed and fed "in full". Come on August 30 and 31 to the Vyazki horse yard, you will definitely like it.

Club address: Oryol region, Oryol district, Vyazki village.

Working hours: from 10.00 to 20.00, day off - Monday. Tel.: 8-910-267-87-08, 8-920-810-89-35.

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It is known that during the wars they were treated with horses. Having been injured in battle, they accelerated rehabilitation by riding a horse and, I must say, achieved success.

Thanks to the Presidential Grants Fund, competitions for children with disabilities will be held very soon.

Hippotherapy is extremely useful for rude, quick-tempered and aggressive, as well as fussy and overly mobile people. Regular hippotherapy sessions make them more calm. In addition, therapeutic horseback riding is recommended for diseases of neurological etiology, in particular Down syndrome, autism, Duchenne myopathy, poliomyelitis, sensory disorders, asthenic neurosis, etc.

People with autism who are overly self-absorbed and withdrawn, communicating with kind and trusting horses, are liberated on an emotional level and begin to feel a desire to communicate with others. This reduces lethargy, anxiety, relieves phobias, helps to adapt to reality.