Moscow Sports & Outdoors Tips by Pablos_new

Ski in Moscow and around

There are a lot of places for Skiing and snowboarding in Moscow and around.
Some good hills in Moscow:
1) "Kant" park near Nagornaya metro st. - known as Moscow Alps - popular place almost in a center of Moscow with ski school and rent services (on photo)
2) Vorobjev Hills near Moscow University - only hill with rope tow and chair lift
3) Krylatskoe - many lifts, many slopes, rent service - also very popular place
4) Uzkoe - just one lift with a couple of slopes, rent service

Slopes length rarely exceed 0,5km, height of Moscow hills vary from 30 to 60 m.

Near Moscow (just 60 km to the north) there is better place for skiing (but this will be an other tip soon) ;-)))

Equipment: Most places for skiing have rent services with all modern equipment.

Address: m st Nagornaya

Theme: Skiing/Snowboarding

Parachuting

Look at the photo - small dot upon the clouds is me.

To repeat this you just need to go about 100 km from Moscow to the small town Volokolamsk and visit avia-club.

4 hours of express training, 1000 rubles (~$30) and you will jump from 800 m from the plane with the automatic (w/o ring) parachute.

Equipment: Parachute D-2U was invented in late 30-s for army and considered to be the most reliable till now (99%). You shoud do nothing after jump - after 3...4 sec of fall rope will pull it out of the bag and you will see outscurts like from the giant big weel. ;-)))

(for this 1% left you will have an other parachute - smaller one on your paunch ;-)))

Directions:
Thanks to Anna (pinik) for correct directions in VT forum:

Hello,

I found the followind web-page: www.dropzone.ru/alferievo.shtml but its in Russian only.
It's written there that in case you are going by suburbian train (elektrichka) you should take the one that is going from Tushino station to Volokolamsk (it takes about 2 hours). Then on arriving to Volokolamsk take a bus (or even better marshrutka - a kind of mini-bus) going to Lotoshino - about 40 minutes. The stop is called Suvorovo. Then, turn back (to the direction from where the bus arrived) and look for the red-brick church - accross to the church there is a road that is going to the aerodrome (about 3km). It's also possible to take a taxi from the railway station to the place (Alferyevo).
Another variant is to take a bus from Tushino station that is going to Lotoshino, Mikoulino or Osheykino. But it's necessary to take a ticket at least 1 hour before the bus departure. Also go to the Suvorovo stop.

You may try to contact web-site authors by the e-mails from the first page (www.dropzone.ru/).

Hope it will help,
Anna

Address: Alfer'evo, Volokolamsk region, Moskovskaya oblast'

Theme: Extreme Sports

InDoor Carting

Carting is more and more popular in Moscow. New carting centers are opening one by one.

Here is one near AvtoZavodskaya metro station.

Equipment: All equipment will be in place ;-)

Address: ul. Leninskaya Sloboda

Theme: Other

Website: http://www.cartingindoor.ru/