pancreatic, microsurgery of the eye. Central pool-hospital on a water-carriage. The largest hospital is the Mariupol regional intensive care hospital. Education Eight-one general educational establishment are operational, including: 67 comprehensive schools (48,500 students), two grammar schools, three lyceums, four evening replaceable schools, three boarding schools, two private schools, eleven professional educational institutions (6,274 students), and 94 children's preschool establishments (12,700 children). Three higher education establishments: Priazovsky State Technical University Mariupol State University Azovsky Institute of Marine Transport Local media More than 20 local newspapers are published, mostly Russian language-based, including: Priazovsky Rabochy (Priazovdky Worker) Mariupolskaya Zhizn (Mariupol Life) Mariupolskaya Nedelya (Mariupol Week) Ilyichevets Azovstalets Azovsky Moryak (Azov Seaman) Azovsky Mashinostroitel (Azov Machine-builder) Twelve radio stations, and seven regional television companies and channels: Sigma Broadcasting Company MTV Broadcasting Company (Mariupol television) TV 7 Broadcasting Company Inter-Mariupol Broadcasting Company Format Broadcasting Company Retransmitting about 15 national public channels (Inter, 1+1, STB, NTN, 5 Channel, ICTV, First National TV, New Channel, TV Company Ukraina, etc.) Public organizations There are about 300 public associations, including 22 trade-union organizations, about 40 political parties, 16 youth groups, four women's organizations, 37 associations of veterans and disabled, and 134 national and cultural societies. Sports Mariupol is the hometown of the nationally famous swimmer Oleksandr Sydorenko who lived in the city, until his death on 20 February 2022. FC Mariupol is a football club, with a great sport traditions and a history of participation at the European level competitions. The water polo team, the «Ilyichevets», is the undisputed champion of Ukraine. It has won the Ukrainian championship 11 times. Every year it plays in the European Champion Cup and Russian championship. Azovstal' Canoeing Club on the Kalmius River. Vitaly Yepishkin – third place in the World Cup in the 200m K-2. Azovmash Basketball Club, similarly to the "Ilichevets" Water-polo Club, has numerous national championship titles. Significant successes were obtained as well by the Mariupol schools of boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, artistic gymnastics, and other types of sport. Sports building in the city (count 585): Volodymyr Boiko stadium Azovstal sports complex Azovets stadium (in the past known as Locomotive) Azovmash sports complex Sadko sports complex Vodnik sports complex Neptune public pool Azovstal chess club Notable people Mikhail Averbakh (1872–1944), Russian and Soviet ophthalmologist Dmitry Aynalov (1862–1939) a Soviet and Russian art historian and university professor Nikki Benz (born 1981), pornographic actress Vadym Boychenko (born 1977) Ukrainian politician, the Mayor of