First Russian LGBT Sport Federation was registered by the GO of MoJ of Russian Federation in St. Petersburg.

First Russian LGBT Sport Federation was registered by the General Office of Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation in St. Petersburg.

The goal of the Federation is organization of sport events and projects aimed at health protection, promotion of a healthy lifestyle, physical culture and sports among the LGBT community and others who accept the goals of the organization.  As Konstantin Yablotskiy, president of the Russian LGBT Sport Federation said, registration will let the organization advocate for the rights of homosexual sportsmen relying on the Russian legal system, promote sports among the LGBT community and provide other gays and lesbians with a positive example in order to show that it is possible and necessary to do sports and follow a healthy lifestyle.   The sport organization was registered with the help of the human rights movement Russian LGBT Network. According to its chairman Igor Kochetkov, the registration of LGBT organizations in Russia is usually challenging. Their requests are oftentimes rejected due to phony reasons. Therefore, one of the spheres the Russian LGBT Network deals with is support of initiative groups defending their right to self-expression regardless of their sexual orientation and willing to be registered as a legal body. Registration provides them with all the rights that public associations lack. It should be mentioned that the Russian LGBT Network has assisted with the registration of other organizations in St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk. The case of the registration of a Tyumen LGBT organization Rainbow House (Raduzhnyi Dom) is being considered in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.  The LGBT Sport Federation in Russia was founded in 2010. The first LGBT sport festival will take place in St. Petersburg on September 23-25. Within the course of the festival there will be competitions in 6 types of sports – football, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, and ping-pong.