On September 27, 2011 in the Council Hall of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the 3^rd Ceremony of Elena Mukhina National Prize took its place. This Prize is awarded to the best representatives of Wheelchair community arts and culture, sports, people with disabilities and the Paralympic movement.

To make this day special, the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre and the Our Victory project have gathered our veterans to culturally visit that important state ceremony.

The award was established by the Russian Paralympic Committee in honor of a Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports, an Absolute Champion of USSR in gymnastics champion at Bars and Floor Exercises. In 1980, during preparations for the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Elena Mukhina got a serious spinal injury, and until the end of her life had been confined to a wheelchair. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has highly praised the Prize as a socially significant project and addressed with his official greetings to the laureates, members and guests of the Ceremony.

The award ceremony was attended by leaders of the world Paralympic Movement sir Philip Craven — President of the International Paralympic Committee, Betty R. Wilson — Commissioner of the Commission on Disabilities, California (USA), Paralympic Committees presidents of Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

As part of the Awards ceremony was presented the first in Russia TV-channel for people with disabilities, Inva-MEDIA TV.

Our ward veterans were thrilled by the ceremony itself, where they saw well-known athletes and artists, and especially they liked a pop stars concert, which took place right after the awards ceremony.

A warm attention is always pleasant as we remember and honor the great feat of our fathers and mothers, and we are happy that with all the means at our disposal we try to decorate the noble old ages of our dear veterans.

Our veterans at the Awards Ceremony n.a. Elena Mukhina