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Skiing sees growing popularity in Russia's little town

Xinhua, March 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

The winter sport Alpine skiing is piling up its popularity in Russia's Primorsky krai, a skiing resort since the 70s of last century, a town about 250 kilometers northeast of Vladivostok, east Russia.

The ski resort "Vostok" opened in 2008 is considered to be one of the best and most popular in Primorsky Krai. Every weekend and days off it gathered sportsmen to take training from all Primorye. All disciplines of Alpine skiing will be competed there.

Tourists are attracted not only by the good and challenging tracks, but also by the comfortable weather conditions allowing pleasant downhill skiing.

A skier named Dmitry Savchenko said: "I have been skiing for more than ten years almost everywhere, in Europe, Kamchatka and many other places. I can say that the quality of the slopes in Arsenev very good. I'm glad to spend time in nature and I get great pleasure from skiing. In the future I hope skiing will get more developed in our region."

There are four ski slopes of varied difficulties and one of the tracks is used for snow-tubing and sledding. The 300-meter track is supposed to be for new learners and there are a lot of children aged from 6 to 14, with the help of experienced instructors, can learn the basic skills of skiing. There are also many adults who are newcomers on ski or snowboard.

There are three slopes for advanced skiers and snowboarders, which are 50 meters wide and 460 meters different in altitude. The longest track "boomerang" covers 2,000 meters.

There are also people, who don't ski or snowboard, comes to the resort for fresh air and the winter landscapes. They can also seek their own pleasure, sledding and tubing on a small 200-meter-long slope.

"Almost for every weekend, our family visits this resort to stay away from the city. Unfortunately, we don't ski, because our children are still too young and they can just do tubing. It's a great place for families with children to spend their winter holiday," said Lubov Alekseeva, a tourist from the nearby city. Endit