posted Dec 20th, 2022 - The NSL News reported on April 23rd how the Russian delegation for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 was prepared to be in medal contention in all 4-way categories at Airspace Charleroi. In fact, Russia had registered the largest delegation for the three horizontal events, 4-way Open, 4-way Women, 4-way Junior, including the 4-way Women world champions at the FAI Tanay Mondial, Bubbles.

The NSL News preview with the Power Rankings on March 15th did not include the seven Russian teams any longer, after FAI/ISC had decided to "suspend the members of Russia and Belarus with immediate effect" from the event. No teams from Russia have attended events outside of their country ever since.

However, they still continued with domestic 4-way events after the Small Party's Indoor Cup in March. The 2nd Russian Indoor Cup in April was completed just two weeks after the FAI Indoor World Cup in Charleroi.

Russia also tried to hold the national outdoor championships in Kolomna in September, where bad weather and trouble with the jump planes interfered with the completion of the event.

Russian Indoor Nationals 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	18,K,G,F	14,1,7	D,P,A,11	17,C,13	4,N,6	20,E,2	5,L,H,10	J,22,B,8	O,9,19	M,Q,21,16	Total	Avg
1	IFS-Moscow	29	25	34	28	26	23	26	26	30	31	278	27.8
2	VDV GROM	35	25	33	24	27	23	21	25	32	29	274	27.4
3	2x2	31	24	29	27	23	22	23	23	27	26	255	25.5
4	Dangerous Proximity	26	21	29	24	21	21	24	19	27	26	238	23.8
5	Quartet	26	21	29	23	20	17	21	18	27	26	228	22.8
6	Airborne Club	26	21	26	17	19	19	23	18	25	21	215	21.5
7	Down and Feathers	22	19	22	17	18	15	17	18	24	19	191	19.1
8	NPT Suzaku	21	15	22	19	18	17	19	18	22	19	190	19.0
9	Military Sports Club	21	19	20	17	19	13	19	17	22	20	187	18.7
10	Night Eagles	18	20	23	16	16	16	20	15	21	19	184	18.4
11	FlyStones	19	15	18	15	13	14	16	16	21	20	167	16.7
12	SK Paratrooper	11	11	13	7	8	8	10	11	19	10	108	10.8
13	NB-Sky.G	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.3

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IFS Moscow - VDV GROM at the Russian Indoor Nationals 2022

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In the meantime, the construction of a new windtunnel with a 17-foot flying chamber was successfully completed in the city of Komerovo, which was one of the event locations for the FAI Tanay Mondial. This new windtunnel became the hosting location for Russia's national indoor championship.

The event was completed at the beginning of the month, and the leaderboards of the two horizontal 4-way categories (AAA/AA) are showing increasing participation, compared to last year's national championships in November.

The reigning outdoor world champions in 4-way Women, Bubbles, were on the very top of the Russian AAA indoor leaderboard of 2021, as well. However, Bubbles did not follow up on their 29.6 and 30.8 averages in November 2021 and April 2022, and IFS Moscow now won the national indoor title, four points ahead of a modified VDV lineup.

Russia had won a set of medals only in 4-way Junior at the last FAI Indoor World Championship at Weembi Lille 2019. There was a strong presence of Russian 4-way juniors at the national indoor championships at the beginning of this month.

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Airborne Club - Military Sports Club - SK Paratrooper at the Russian Indoor Nationals 2022

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Members of the Russian 4-way Junior lineup of 2019 (Airborne Club) posted scores on the AAA Class leaderboard with a young senior lineup this month. There were still three other teams with lineups under the age of 18 on the AAA Class leaderboard: Military Sports Club, SK Paratroopers and NB-Sky, who did not continue after the first round.

The AA Class leaderboard did not feature additional 4-way juniors, even though there was young talent in the three high-scoring Kuzbass lineups. Andrey Barabash, member of the Tanay 8-way team who won FAI bronze medals in Tanay last year, launched a Formation Skydiving school project as soon as the new windtunnel opened the doors.

The project includes ten young 4-way competitors (age 20-24) who have player-coaches of the Tanay 8-way team in their lineups for 2-2 combinations. Bubbles member Alena Chistova is the project's head coach.

Vasily Korotkov, Evgeny Stashchenko (Kuzbass 1), Dmitry Samokhval, Alexey Minaev (Kuzbass 2), Vladimir Pavlenko and Alena Chistova (Kuzbass 3) were the six player-coaches for the three project lineups at the national indoor championships. Tanay 8 member Sergey Yalpaev was player-coach for NPT Suzaku, Alexander Tychinskiy for Nomads, Valentin Ilin for another Kuzbass lineup. Only Tanay 8 member Andrey Barabash did not compete. Alena Chistova's Bubbles team mate Olga Bykova finished in 3rd place with 2x2 on the AAA Class leaderboard.

Russian Indoor Nationals 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	M,G,O,7	M,C,Q,9	M,F,D,4	M,H,J,14	M,B,P,15	M,L,N,21	M,A,K,2	M,E,J,6			Total	Avg
1	Kuzbass 1	32	43	31	32	32	29	30	34	-	-	263	32.9
2	Kuzbass 3	30	42	25	25	32	29	30	38	-	-	251	31.4
3	MT Cassiopeia	33	38	30	27	32	24	32	33	-	-	249	31.1
4	Nomads	32	36	28	27	32	24	26	34	-	-	239	29.9
5	MT Non-Stop	32	39	31	26	26	18	28	34	-	-	234	29.3
6	Kuzbass 2	27	28	29	24	28	24	25	19	-	-	204	25.5
7	Sky Rhinos	25	30	22	25	26	19	20	29	-	-	196	24.5
8	Kuzbass Juniors	27	31	22	24	21	21	20	26	-	-	192	24.0
9	Men Tomsk	17	20	19	14	19	15	13	18	-	-	135	16.9

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Kuzbass 1 - Kuzbass 3 - Kuzbass 2 at the Russian Indoor Nationals 2022

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