The event will see representatives from Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine take part in sporting competitions as well as tests on the Olympic Movement and various seminars and discussion groups.

Indoor football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis and chess competitions will all be held alongside an exhibition dedicated to the Olympic Movement, where participants will get the chance to develop their sports management skills.

Training sessions will also be staged to help teach those involved the values of Olympism.

The 60 people competing at the first-ever event are a mix of those who have won Olympic Movement competitions, heads of education programmes within the National Olympic Committees and those representing the various National Olympic Academies.

The activities taking place in Tajikistan will be refereed and moderated by Olympic champions, well-known athletes and coaches and specialists in National Olympic Academies.

Tajikistan’s National Olympic Committee and their National Olympic Academy are helping to implement the CIS International Youth Olympic Games alongside the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund and the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs in the nation.

The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organisation comprised of nine former Soviet nations, with the purpose of the CIS being to cooperate in political, economic, environmental, humanitarian and cultural fields.

The CIS International Youth Olympic Games open today and will come to a conclusion on August 29.