Russian fun of tsarist times - skiing from ice slides - is returning to fashion. In Moscow every year there are more and more of them. And who said that at 20, 30, 40 you can't take "cheesecakes" on a par with kids and go down the sparkling ice at speed? Away with stereotypes. We have selected the steepest ice slides for you.
Muzeon
On the Crimean embankment, a slide with bends and a cyclic music and multimedia show has "grown". The winter attraction is made of clear ice, and on one of its facades there is an installation of a map of Russia with 11 time zones, which will light up multi-colored lights built under the ice from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. The musical and multimedia performance will last 60 minutes and will be looped with a 15-minute break. The six-meter slide itself has three slopes with a total length of 180 meters. Ice cakes can be brought with you or you can get them free of charge from the staff during skiing. You cannot use tubing here.
WHERE: MUSEON art park, Crimean embankment.
WHEN: before January 15, 2016, from 11:00 to 22:00. The slide works only at sub-zero temperatures.
PRICE: free.
Revolution square
Directly under the walls of the Kremlin, you can go down from a seven-meter slide, which was created from 1300 pieces blue ice... The rides take place both in the afternoon and in the evening. On weekends, the slide runs until midnight. The evening skiing is especially colorful. A hundred LEDs were installed in the hill - the ice shimmers in different colors to the incendiary music. You can go down the hill at the same time for two people. We warn you that two or three people in a train are not allowed to go head down. But you can take tubing and ice cakes. No one will forbid you to roll on your own soft place.
WHERE: Revolution Square, between the Moscow Hotel and the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812.
PRICE: free.
"The Gorka" in Sokolniki Park holds the leading position in scale. Photo: Sokolniki Park Press Service
Sokolniki
"The Gorka" in Sokolniki Park holds the leading position in scale. The design of the winter track has no analogues in Moscow. Its length is 200 meters, and its height is 13.5 meters. You can go down the slide only on tubing and inflatable pillows. Parents should pay attention that children under 5 years old are not allowed on the slide. And, if your child is from 5 to 12 years old, then get ready to go down with him - children will not be allowed without parents.
WHERE: Sokolniki Park, on the 3rd Luchevoy Prosek (to the left of the Ice skating rink).
WHEN: daily from 11:00 to 21:45.
PRICE: for a 45-minute session from 300 to 450 rubles, for pensioners and children from 7 to 12 years old there are benefits.
Victory park
Poklonnaya mountain for a while new year holidays turned into an ice kingdom. On the hill, which has always been a favorite place for sledding among children and adults, a fabulous ice castle 10 meters high has grown. And surrounded by ice heroes from the tales "Cinderella", "12 months", "Goldfish". It will be possible to consider them while descending the hill along three slopes 140, 90 and 45 meters long. The neon dynamic illumination adds to the fabulousness of the slopes and the castle. By the way, you can return to the hill using a special lift.
WHERE: Victory Park.
WHEN: Monday to Friday 12:00 to 22:00, Saturday to Sunday 10:00 to 22:00.
PRICE: with your own tubes from 200 rubles. Rent of cheesecakes from 350 to 2000 rubles, depending on the number of hours.
WHERE ELSE WILL THE SLIDES WILL BE INSTALLED:
Three slides for tubing (3, 5 and 7 meters) on the interactive site "Forest of Miracles" in the northern part of Izmailovsky Park started working in test mode on weekends;
Park Krasnaya Presnya,
Babushkinsky park,
Vorontsov Park,
Kuzminki,
North Tushino,
Public garden on Olonetsky proezd,
Gardeners,
50th anniversary of October,
Birch Grove,
Mitino Landscape Park,
Park near Dzhamgarovskiy pond,
Children's Landscape Park South Butovo,
Floodplain by the Bitsa River,
Museum-reserve Kolomenskoye.
The start of the slides will depend on weather conditions.
Downhill skiing is one of the most beloved and democratic winter entertainment that does not require any special trainingno complicated gear. You can slide down the slides on sledges, ice skates, snow-scooters, tubes and even on cardboard boxes. But the operation of the ice slides directly depends on the weather conditions.
In general, there are several types of winter slides: wild, but pretty and very picturesque, unequipped slopes of natural origin; and artificial slides - for example, ice slides in snow towns. To ride most of them, you just need to buy an entrance ticket to the town. But there are also ice slides of a special design, where a fee is charged for each descent.
A separate type of slides are public tubing tracks in city parks with cheesecake rental. They are paid by the hour. Finally, special slopes are always prepared for the winter season in ski centers - such slides differ high quality, the possibility of renting equipment, the availability of lifts and not the most democratic prices.
In addition, in almost every area there are places that can be used as slides, but not all of them are of good quality coverage and do not always meet safety requirements.
Slides in Victory Park
For the second year in a row from December 29, 2016 to January 8, 2017 in the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Gora, the ice city “Ice Moscow. In the family". On the central Ice Moscow square is the Moscow Kremlin, decorated with five towers, and a cascade of ice slides. They will become magic guides to the cities of Russia. Historical monuments of St. Petersburg and Crimea, Volgograd, Kizhi, Vladimir, Vladivostok and other cities - all of sparkling ice.
Slide in Muzeon
In early December 2016, a tubing slide will be launched in the Muzeon Art Park. True, she waits for visitors only at sub-zero temperatures. Here you can ride on branded soft tubes of various sizes, which can be rented near the entrance to the attraction, or on your own tube. In the latter case, the entrance to the slide is free.
The Hill in Sokolniki
Traditionally, as soon as the weather conditions permit, in the Sokolniki Park they begin to "freeze" the tubing "The Hill" with two slopes 13.5 m high and a slope length of 200 m. It is located on the 3rd Luchevoy Prosek, to the left of the artificial ice rink " Ice". There is a rental of single and double tubing near the slide. Downhill competitions are planned to be held here during the season. The opening of the slide is expected closer to the January holidays.
Hill in Izmailovsky Park
An interactive playground "Forest of Miracles" with an ice labyrinth and tubing slides will be open again in Izmailovsky Park this winter. The "forest" area is home to glowing ice characters and funny snowmen. The site is located in the northern part of the park. There are also various activities with Husky dogs.
Hill in the park "Kuzminki"
In the park of culture and rest "Kuzminki" with the onset of frosty and snowy weather, guests also have access to winter entertainment facilities. Large and small visitors will be delighted by the ice-covered wooden tubing slide. This year, the slide will appear on the lawn at the Coffee Cafe with the onset of stable frosty weather. Cheesecakes will be available at the rental point.
Gorki in Kolomenskoye
In the Kolomenskoye Museum-Estate, a wonderful "natural" slide is traditionally open in winter. In the coming season, so that skiing from the snow-capped mountains gives visitors pleasure, the park of tubing (sledge-vatrushk) has been enlarged and updated. Now more than two hundred people can ride them at the same time. The attraction "Cheese sledding" is located on two safe slopes behind Nizhnyaya and Torgovaya streets.
Park slides
The most likely thing is to find a nice slide near your home in a nearby park. In most of them, due to the natural unevenness of the relief, many snow slides are formed in winter. Besides, locals, of course, they know the places where artificial slides are poured every year. An important advantage of park slides over wild ones is the availability of infrastructure. The administration pays special attention to the equipment of free slides. And, in addition, in many parks artificial slides have been built, from which you can ride regardless of weather conditions. So, it will soon be possible to ride the slides in Babushkinsky, Vorontsov parks, Northern Tushino, a public garden on Olonetsky passage. New slides will appear in the parks Sadovniki, Birch Grove, Mitino Landscape Park, Yuzhnoye Butovo Children's Park. In the park "Kuzminki-Lyublino" for amateurs active rest all possibilities are also offered. There are numerous small slides from which you can ride on sleds, and on ice, and on "cheesecakes". The tubing track is traditionally located on the territory of the Fili park. It is located in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Naryshkinsky pond. Another tubing slide will be laid in the park of the 50th anniversary of October. The natural landscape contributed to the creation of very good slides in the Lianozovsky Park. Here, thanks to the pond, every kid will find a worthy slide for himself. And closer to the central part, two hand-made beauties will soon be located - one for very little ones, the other for older children. There are many slopes on the territory of the Troparevsky forest park, in the Losiny Ostrov reserve, various spontaneous slides are located along the river bed, there are small slides in Bitsevsky park, in the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo park, in the Stroginskaya floodplain. In total, 44 tubing and ice slides will open in 29 parks of the capital.
Slides near the Palace of Pioneers
Wonderful slides, gentle and steep, snowy and icy, together with a tubing track, traditionally with the arrival of winter, can be found on the territory of the Palace of Children's Art on Vorobyovy Gory. There is a "cheesecake" rental nearby. Guests are always welcome here. So take a good mood with you and come to the Palace on any free day!
Slides of the "Journey to Christmas" festival
The "Journey to Christmas" festival will delight young Muscovites with ice slides from December 16, 2016 to January 15, 2017. The festival venues host art objects, host street shows and concerts, master classes in cooking and decor, various contests and quests, tents with food and unusual souvenirs. Towns and, of course, slides are equipped for children.
In this article, we have not covered all of the capital's slides. The article will be supplemented as new information becomes available.
The longest winter slide in Moscow will traditionally be built on the Third Luchevoy Prosek of Sokolniki Park in the 2016-2017 season.
Video: Skating rinks and Gorka in Sokolniki, filmed last winter
This slide works by sessions - the schedule is in the photo.
The cost of a skiing session is 400 rubles on weekends and holidays, 300 - on weekdays. For pensioners, disabled people, military conscripts and full-time students, as well as for children from 120 to 140 cm tall - 280 and 210 rubles, respectively.
A child up to 120 cm tall can only ride with adults is free.
The ticket price includes the provision of snow tubing and use of the ski lift.
The characteristics of the slide in Sokolniki, even before its opening, were announced as follows: “The modern all-season slide will be equipped with a mechanism for lifting guests of the park on tubing for a second descent. The length of the slide is 200 meters, the width is 10 meters, and the height is 12 meters. The slide cover will be made of modern innovative material, which has a special sliding surface that allows you to ride on tubing on it both in winter and in summer. " Wait and see.
Not far from the northern entrance to the All-Russian Exhibition Center, next to the Rostokinsky aqueduct, a wonderful natural slide pleases everyone -
snowy, with a municipal tree at the top. Parents with children rush here from all over the area.
Due to the warm December and the subsequent sharp cold snap at the beginning of 2016, heroic efforts were made in Sokolniki to open Bolshaya Gorka and Skating Rink by January 2. Opened. There is no information about small slides yet.
Small slides:
- an ice slide in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Symphonic Stage;
- an ice slide next to the Golden Pond;
- an ice slide next to the Lebyazhy pond;
- an ice slide next to the Dog Pond;
- an ice slide on the territory of the Children's Town;
- an ice slide on the territory of an amusement town on the Sand Alley.
