Contracts

The Baltika football club and the Rosenergoatom corporation have signed a sponsorship agreement, which provides for the annual allocation of 120 million rubles to the club, the press service of the Kaliningrad team reports. The signing of the contract, valid until 2018, took place in the building of the government of the Kaliningrad region. It is worth noting that in addition to money from Rosenergoatom, Baltika will also receive funds from the city and regional budgets - 42 million rubles each. annually.

Football club "Baltika" was founded in 1954; in 1996-1998 the team played in the top division of the Russian championship. According to the results of the first stage of the Football National League, the Kaliningrad team scored 41 points in 38 matches, taking 17th place in the standings.

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