Sport at HSE University includes:
University teams in 42 sporting disciplines
HSE Sports Contest in 10 sports: volleyball, futsal, table tennis, checkers, Russian bench-press, swimming, chess, athletics, badminton, and basketball
3 leagues, 80 teams, and 3,000 people in the HSE football, volleyball, basketball championship
News
From July 21 to 23, HSE University's atrium on Pokrovsky Bulvard hosted a stage of the Russian Chess Grand Prix—a major event bringing together over 250 participants from five countries and 44 regions across Russia. It was also attended by eight grandmasters, six international masters and 26 FIDE masters.
August 06
On July 12, 2025, Moscow’s first student raft regatta, RAFTDAY XSPORT, took place on the Skhodnya River. It was organised by XSPORT HSE Active Recreation Club with the support of the Sports Community Development Centre of HSE Corporate Academy, the HSE Department of Physical Education, SUP ACADEMIA store, and the Moscow Rafting Federation. Regatta participants shared their impressions with HSE University Life.
July 30
HSE University has launched its first official men’s and women’s rafting teams, coached by Nikita Zhuravlev—a graduate of the Bachelor’s programme in Media Communications at the Faculty of Creative Industries, President of the Moscow Rafting Federation, and founder of the rowing club Academia. This season, the teams are preparing for six key races as part of the amateur league. In an interview with the HSE News Service, the coach explains how this marks a unique milestone.
June 30
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Contacts
Elena Emelyanova
Tutor, Visiting Scholar, Department of Physical Training
eemelyanova@hse.ru