This year XIII International Charitable Lawyers' Run Legal Run 2026 took place from April 18 to June 27 in 26 cities of Russia and other countries and brought together more than 5,000 lawyers and their friends, and it has come to an end.
Project results in 2026
In 2026, the total amount of donations during Legal Run in all cities amounted to 14,069,702 rubles. The funds raised were used to help the foundations Podari Zhizn’ (12 160 888 rubles), DobroSvet (1 125 814 rubles) and Children of Russia (783 000 rubles).
In Moscow and 23 other cities, thanks to Legal Run, in 2026 the Podari Zhizn’ foundation managed to raise 12,160,888 rubles and help twenty-five wards with severe oncological and other diseases:
Vladislav Shtanov from Orel, Sasha Komarov from Severomorsk, Angelina Rozhina from Penza, Alina Alekseeva from Krasnodar Krai, Denis Serov from Kostroma Region, Polina Glyzina from Yaroslavl, Misha Putilin from Balashikha and Daria Kirillova from the Republic of Buryatia received treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Kirill Ivanko from Chelyabinsk and Mikhail Meshcheryakov from the Ryazan Region are fighting Burkitt's lymphoma, while Yaroslav Shepaev from Kuznetsk is fighting lymphoblastic lymphoma. Timur Vasiliev from Bashkortostan is fighting glioma, Elnur Abdullaev from Novosibirsk and Andrey Sigaev from Kuzbass are fighting aplastic anemia. Muslim Tetuyev from the Karachay‑Cherkess Republic is undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, Artyom Kirik from the Bryansk Region is undergoing treatment for lymphoma, and Kira Kalinina from Vladimir is undergoing treatment for anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Arina Kazepina from Smolensk is fighting Ewing's sarcoma, Robert Rubaev from Vladikavkaz is fighting sarcoma, and Anastasia Yakovleva from Moscow is fighting lower eyelid sarcoma. Maxim Legoshin from Nizhny Novgorod received treatment for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, Egor Semov from Naro‑Fominsk — from juvenile xanthogranuloma, Alisa Anikina from the Moscow region — from acute myeloblastic leukemia. Abdulahad Himatzoda from Tajikistan, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and Vitaly Kravchenko from the village of Staroignatievka, who was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, also received support.
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Ekaterina Shergova, Director of the Podari Zhizn’ Foundation, thanked all the participants, partners and volunteers for their contribution to the common cause and stressed that the combination of sports, creative energy and a sincere desire to help makes Legal Run a truly special and unique project: «Legal Run has already proved for the 13th time that it is possible to help others while enjoying it: you don’t have to give the shirt off your back to help someone, but you can receive emotions, play sports, meet with friends and colleagues. This gives rise to the unique energy of Legal Run». |
In Voronezh, Chernozemye Legal Run brought together lawyers from five regions, and donations were collected in favor of the regional DobroSvet Foundation to help its wards — children with cancer and other serious diseases. As a result of the event, 1,125,814 rubles were collected — these funds were used to purchase a drug for autotransplantation, which, thanks to Legal Run, will be carried out in the region for the first time.
Ural Legal Run was held in Yekaterinburg for the sixth time. 783,000 rubles were collected this year. The funds raised went to six wards of the Ural Children of Russia Charitable Foundation, participants in the HE NEEDS YOU project, to pay for specialized equipment for high—quality home care, daily rehabilitation and recovery treatment.
Geography of the runs and the scale of the project
In 2026, the official lawyer runs were held for three months from April 18 to June 27 in more than 25 cities of Russia and other countries of the world. A small flashmob was also held on July 4 in Amsterdam and closed a series of international launches within the framework of this year's project.
So, on April 18, for the first time since 2018, a run was held in Krasnodar. On April 25, the races were held in three cities at once: Voronezh, Limassol (Cyprus) and Belgrade (Serbia). On May 2, Dubai (UAE) continued the series of international launches, on May 16, lawyers ran in Kaliningrad, and on May 23 and 24, running competitions were held in Volgograd and Krasnoyarsk. The Legal Run was held in three cities at once on May 30 – Irkutsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Murmansk. But the most popular date for the runs this year was June 6. On this day, the launches took place simultaneously in 6 cities: Moscow, Izhevsk, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Novosibirsk and Tyumen. Yekaterinburg and Blagoveshchensk ran on June 7 and 14, and on June 20 the race took place in St. Petersburg, Barnaul, Vladivostok and for the first time in Yakutsk. Kazan and Samara completed the official runs on June 27, and on July 4, the most recent launch in the flashmob format took place in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Traditionally, along with the official runs in support of the project, flashmobs of Global Legal Run were held in various cities. This year, lawyers ran in Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Kursk, Tver, Tula, Sochi, Istanbul, Ulyanovsk, Khabarovsk, Engels and other cities. In total, more than 17,000 people around the world have already ran through flashmobs as part of the project.
Information support and future plans
The events were held with the active support of the entire legal community and were widely covered by leading specialized media.
The official information partners of Legal Run 2026 are: the PRObankrotstvo news agency, the Corporate Lawyer magazine, the Pravo.ru information portal, Legal Insight magazine, ICC Russia International Chamber of Commerce, Lawyer reference system, Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration, PravoTech, Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI), Telegram channel I love Docs, Shortrid online legal magazine, PROnalogi news agency, Advokatskaya Gazeta, LawTEK Association, Construction Law Forum, information portal Law.ru, Telegram channel "99 francs without VAT", Moscow Legal Hackers, Consultant Plus legal reference system, Association of Litigators and Lawyers.
More than 1,000 lawyers, managers and volunteers who deeply care about sports and charity, worked on the project in different cities. In every city, the Organizing Committee has done everything to ensure that Legal Run takes place and turns out to be another large-scale event that the legal community will warmly remember until next year:
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"Our thirteenth season has ended, and on behalf of the Organizing Committee, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who became a part of this large-scale event: our runners, partners, volunteers and co-organizers. To everyone who supported. Thanks to your participation, dozens of children have received prompt help and a real chance of recovery — and this is the most important and invaluable result of our joint work. Let our young heroes recover as soon as possible, and then come join us at the Legal Run healthy and happy — as participants this time!" Andrey Korelskiy, founder of Legal Run |
"Legal Run is an amazingly emotional, family-friendly event. Everyone is one of our own here, many have known each other for years, come with families, children, dogs — and it is in this amazing atmosphere that its main value lies. Legal Run should develop not only in Moscow, but also in the regions. Our big goal is to have more cities hosting Legal Run races every year. We will work on it. In the meantime, see you next year," Andrey Korelskiy, founder and Managing Partner of KIAP, Attorneys At Law, summed up the results of Legal Run 2026.
Photo materials, as well as the final videos from the Legal Run 2026 events in different cities have already been published on the project's website.
You can follow the updates of Legal Run on the project's website and on the social networks Telegram and VK.
To become a partner or organizer of Legal Run 2027 in your city, contact the Organizing Committee of the project by e-mail: info@legal.run.
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The Organizing Committee of the International Charitable Lawyers' Run Legal Run 2026
› 59,5 mln rubles raised during Legal Run in 2014-2026
159 critically ill children from various regions of Russia and foreign countries got necessary treatment
› 35 countries took part in races in 2014-2026
35 000 lawyers ran across the globe in 2014-2026
› 150 cities took part
in races in 2014-2026
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