ST. PETERSBURG, June 5. /TASS/. Alina Zagitova, the 2018 Olympic figure skating gold medalist, and boxer Alexander Povetkin, the super-heavyweight champion in the 2004 Olympics, will become ambassadors of the BRICS Games, the tournament’s organizing committee told TASS.

The BRICS Games will be held in Kazan on June 12-23. The ceremony of Zagitova and Povetkin being proclaimed BRICS Games Ambassadors will take place on June 6 after the session ‘BRICS: New Opportunities for Development of Multipolar Sport" within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

Among the BRICS Games ambassadors are also two-time Olympic saber fencing champion Sofya Velikaya, former individual rhythmic gymnast Yana Batyrshina, the 1996 Olympic silver medalist, and Gokdeniz Karadeniz, a former FC Rubin Kazan player and a two-time champion of Russia.

Zagitova, 22, is also a European (2018) and world (2019) champion.

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held on June 5-8. This year’s theme will be "The Formation of New Areas of Growth as the Cornerstone of a Multipolar World." Scheduled events include meetings for small and medium-sized businesses, creative industries, the SPIEF Youth Day, as well as the Drug Security, SPIEF Academy and SPIEF Junior forums. SPIEF is organized by the Roscongress Foundation. TASS is the information partner of the event.