Makhachkala, June 16, 2014. On June 17, a festival “Caucasian Games” will take place in Makhachkala Lenin Komsomol Park, the press service of the Committee for Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs reports.

The festival “Caucasian Games” is a universal sport event for the peoples of Caucasus. The sport event has already been become popular in the administrative centers of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. Undoubtedly, with the same great success the festival "Caucasian Games" will be held in Daghestan this year"- the source noted.

The program of the festival features rope climbing, belt wrestling, weight lifting, power lifting, moving on stilts, hopping, as well as a tug of war.

"Caucasian Games" is expected to become a large-scale event, not only popularizing national sports, but also reflecting the diversity of the multinational culture of Daghestani peoples.

Thanks to these games the spirit of sportsmanship is closely intertwined with the values of peace, kindness, good neighborhood, international cooperation and brotherhood habitual among Daghestanis since ancient times, the spokesman concluded.