All history of "Stayki" is closely connected to domestic sports. Any other sports complex of the former Soviet Union has not brought up such amount of talents. How many national teams, clubs and stars of world scale have chosen this place for trainings and restoration of forces, wouldn't know, probably, even the aborigines. Belarus grew and continues to grow the professional sportsmen of the highest class. Certainly, you will never win an Olympic medal, doing trainings on a school stadium. To achieve in sports of the large heights, the appropriate sports base is necessary, in which role "Stayki" acts. The complex is adapted to rest and realization of the training meetings on more than 20 kinds of sports.

In 1970 the learning and training meetings of the most famous URSS teams were held here. Volleyball players, fencers and the fighters of free and classical style were preparing here to the serious competitions. In two years in "Stayki" begun the pre-Olympic trainings on free and classic fighting. And those sportsmen performed successfully at XX games in Munchen.

By the Olympic Games of 1976 year in "Stayki" passed preparation of USSR national commands on free and Greco-Roman wrestling, the fencers and the archers, which have won on XXI Olympic Games 25 gold medals. It is more than half of gold stock received by the Soviet sportsmen in Montreal!

During preparation to the Olympic games in 1979 learning and training meeting of the Soviet Union teams on 12 different kinds of sport was held in the sport camp. The same year in the same place National teams on classic and free fighting, sport gymnastic and football of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Cuba, Poland, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Algeria, Mongolia, Czechoslovakia, Romania took their trainings.

With the Belarusian kindliness and hospitality the participants of the Olympic — 80 national commands of Algeria, Yugoslavia, Syria, Finland, Spain, Costa Rica, Iran were met by Olympic camp "Stayki" in July. Earlier here have lead their learning and training meetings here teams of Japan, Tunis, Finland, and at the end of 1980 the national team of Afghanistan on free struggle trained in "Stayki".

There are perfect examples for imitation among the senior generation of glorified Belarusian Olympic winners, who deserved applauses of many stadiums and sports arenas of the world more than once. Their names are well familiar to the amateurs of sports in all corners of the planet. They are Oleg Karavaev, Alexander Medved, Romuald Klim, Matiya Itkina, Viktor Sidyak, Tatyana Samusenko, Elena Belova, Olga Korbut, Alexander Romankov, Vitaliy Shcherbo, Alexander Kurlovich, Elina Zvereva, Igor Astapkovich, Natalia Sazanovich, Gennadiy Oleshchuk, Yanina Korolchik and many others …

This is what tell about the sports complex "Stayki" its habitues:

Igor ASTAPKOVICH, hammer thrower, prize-winner of Olympic Games

There is only one specialized athletic base in Belarus and it is "Stayki". I has arrived here for the first time more than 20 years ago. Everything here is very convenient, everything is in its place: a sleeping complex, restaurant, place for trainings. Certainly, it would be desirable, that money were invested here, that all was improved. But in general there are problems neither with meals, nor with health services. I completely satisfied with "Stayki".

Yanina KOROLCHIK, weight pusher, Olympic champion

I liked "Stayki" from the first sight in 1997. Now before the basic competitions I always train here. The attendants try to create for us all the comfort conditions. The truth, I have just a little time for rest. Only to go to bar to eat an ice cream and to walk on the lake bank. I love to take a walk on the stadium, when there is no training.

It is for sure, that in Belarus you will never find any more or less known sportsman, which has not passed the school of "Stayki". For example, the remarkable gymnast Ivan Ivankov approves, that two thirds of his life he spends in "Stayki". For many young sportsmen the sports complex became their second home. Here prepared for the brilliant performances on the Olympic — 2004 in Athenes Magomet Aripgadgiev, Viktor Zuev, Vyacheslav Makarenko, Igor Makarov, Irina Yatchenko, Ivan Tikhon, Yulia Nesterenko, Andrei Rybakov, Anna Batyushko, Tatyana Stukalova.