Russian billiards is 300 year old. Peter I , Ekaterina II, Pushkin, Gogol, Shalyapin, Budennyi, Zhukov, Chkalov and Gagarin are famous people united by lust to billiards. Nowadays the billiard is a kind of sport pretended to be the Olympic one.

The representatives of 15 regions arrived to Samara where there will be held the elimination competitions to the World Championship.