Then the FIDE head visited the Siberian branch of Academy of Sciences "Lensky region" in Khangalassky ulus. He was accompanied by the first President of Sakha Republic and currently the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Mikhail Nikolayev and Minister of Education of Yakutia Feodosia Gabysheva (with whom, on the same day, the agreement was signed on the development of chess in schools and preschools in the region).
"I think that the Children of Asia International Sports Games will be very interesting. There are great players in Yakutsk, who have repeatedly won prizes," said Ilyumzhinov.
The head of FIDE also visited the Republican Maternity and Childhood Centre, the library of the first President of Yakutia, chess museum in Oktemtsy village and the local high school, which has industrial park and the centre of robotics.