Representatives of youth organisations and foreign Russian-language media, met the 1984 USSR champion, club record appearance holder and director of the Zenit Academy, Anatoly Davydov and three-time champion of Russia, winner of the UEFA Cup and Super Cup and Zenit-2 manager Konstantin Zyryanov. 

Almost 80 participants from 41 countries visited the academy and saw how the players trained as well as meeting and taking photos with Anatoly Davydov and Konstantin Zyryanov.

The XI St. Petersburg Forum of Youth Organizations of Foreign Russian-Speaking Media, known as Russian Abroad is being held in St. Petersburg from 16 to 22 May.