January 21-22 in St. Petersburg passed the 1st stage of the competition "Stark - Cup of Russia in knife throwing", conducted by the NGO "Federation of knife throwing" with the support of the "Stark Security". Competition gathered 48 athletes from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Izhevsk, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Naberezhnye Chelny, Novosibirsk, Samara, as well as a number of cities in Ukraine and Belarus.