a sports ground. In 2017, Liga Stavok became the general partner of the annual FIFA 18 Strawberry Fields Cup 2017 e-sports tournament organized by Game Show and “Sozvezdie Dobra” named after Oleg Zhuravsky. Support for youth sports is one of the directions that BC “Liga Stavok” plans to develop further. Under the leadership of Yuri Krasovsky, in 2019, a project was launched for the construction of ice hockey boxes throughout Russia. The first of these appeared in January 2019 in the settlement of Main, Ulyanovsk Region. The opening ceremony of the new hockey ground was attended by the president of FHR Vladislav Tretyak, the president of BC “Liga Stavok” Yuri Krasovsky, the chairman of the legislative assembly of the Ulyanovsk region Valery Malyshev, the head of the administration of the municipal formation “Mainsky district” Oleg Shuenkov. Oleg Shuenkov awarded Yury Krasovsky with a letter of thanks for the implementation of projects aimed at raising and improving the younger generation. Company Market Share "Liga Stavok" is one of the largest Russian bookmakers. As of January 2019, the company was represented by 500 clubs in 120 Russian cities with about 3,000 employees. According to the “Bookmakers' Rating”, in May 2017 the betting company was the fourth largest participant in the market with a 14% stake, wherein the entire annual volume of the bookmaker market, including the illegal segment, was estimated at 677 billion rubles. According to a similar study for 2018, the volume of the Russian betting market increased by 70% and amounted to a record 1.15 trillion rubles, while BC "Liga Stavok" became the third largest company among other participants of the betting market with a share of 18%. Owners and Managers According to FTS of the RF, the co-owners of the Limited Liability Company "First International Bookmaker Company" acting under the brand "Liga Stavok" were Swiss company "Kazako AG" (23%), British "KHML Holding LTD" (15%), private company with limited liability X-M-L-V LTD (5%), Tatyana Bashmakova (15%), Alena Avdeeva (15%), First Vice-President of BC "Liga Stavok" Olga Zhuravskaya (15%), Vice-President of BC "Liga Stavok" Dmitry Pavlovsky (7%), Vice President of BC "Liga Stavok" Dmitry Shumov (5%) Honors "Liga Stavok" won the national award "Sport and Russia" three times. In 2016, the company received a prize in the nomination of "The Best Campaign to Promote the Brand with the Participation of a Sports Star." A year later it won also the nomination