“Spartak” which took the fifth place in Russian rugby championships 2012 is preparing for the new season, on May 12 it holds two friendly matches with Georgian clubs.

This club has Georgian president and the main staff contains Georgians and considered as Georgian club. It is very common that while a pause in Georgian championship, Georgian rugby players go to this club for playing practice and then come back.

Moscow "Spartak" was founded in 1936, and is one of the oldest rugby clubs in Russia. The team started badly last season, but then corrected the situation and eventually took the 5-th place. In Russia, where the Championship is held for the Spring-Autumn system, a new season has begun, but Spartak first encounter only on May 27 and the leaders of the Club have decided to spend the last stage of preparation in Tbilisi. The team will hold a training base for the national team of Georgia "one that runs Shevardeni".

In the first meeting, on May 14, Muscovites will play against the Club's trophy-winning Georgia Lokomotivi Tbilisi. " We remind that the wards of Timur Bendianišvili finished the regular season in 6th place, and then eliminated from the first phase of the playoffs. So, in fact, these commands occupy the same position in their Championships and their confrontation will be a good test for comparing levels of both Championships. This is all the more interesting that next year is planned for the new Eurotournament, which will include two teams from Georgia, Russia, Romania and Ukraine. The winner of this tournament will have the right to speak in the second rank of European club tournament "Challenge Cup".

The meeting between "Lokomotivi Tbilisi" and "Spartak" will take place in Didi Dighomi, Wissol Stadium "at 17.00. Visit is free. At the same stadium on May 19, a rival of "Spartak" will already be Tbilisi "Armazi", which finished the regular season on the 4-th place, hosted the first round of the playoffs, but lost in the second  "Aia" Kutaisi and eventually won the 4-th place.